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Hard News: Art with a job to do, in reply to George Darroch,
What does Winston think?
You’re missing a comma.
What? does Winston think?
I think perhaps a question mark?
But the answer is a resounding yes.
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What does Winston think?
End embarrassing flag change farce
Saturday, 12 December 2015, 7:09 pm
Press Release: New Zealand First Party
END EMBARRASSING FLAG CHANGE FARCERt Hon Winston Peters
New Zealand First Leaders
Member of Parliament for Northland12 December 2015
With 1,791,706 voters ignoring or lodging an informal vote in the first flag referendum, New Zealand First is calling on the government to end the flag farce.
“A clear majority of New Zealanders, some 62%, have sent the clearest possible message to Prime Minister John Key on his $26.4 million vanity project,” says the New Zealand First Leader and Member of Parliament for Northland Rt Hon Winston Peters.
“The referendum proved there’s no mood for engagement in this costly circus nor for changing the flag.
“Some 1.64 million voters abstained on a constitutional referendum while the informal vote was third. This provides empirical evidence that most New Zealanders want the whole thing scrapped.
“The number of informal votes, at 148,022, is unprecedented in our democracy given there were only about 38,000 cast in the 2014 General Election.
“There are still many supporting the claim that we must have a silver fern, yet none of these white symbols on the flag choices represents anything like our special fern – in simple English, it’s silver underside is its uniqueness hence the name.”
ENDS
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Hard News: Art with a job to do, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
I also compared it to clothing. The flag is not clothing, unless you’re Australian
Or Sean Plunket.
Or Uncle Sam...
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Hard News: Art with a job to do, in reply to Matthew Hooton,
If you weren’t an inner-city latte-sipper,
Ok then, Steinlager swilling redneck?.
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Hard News: Art with a job to do, in reply to Matthew Hooton,
1.2 million voters cannot be completely wrong.
Of course they can, after all, do we not have John Key as our prime minister?
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A re-edit...
“You see the arguments from the RSA that, well, people fought and died under the flag – and that’s true. They certainly did fight under the flag.
Well yes Prime Minister but the also did die.
“But I think they actually fight for values and principles – human rights, women’s rights and democracies.”
Well yes Prime Minister, like a woman's right to wear a Ponytail.
“That’s the national symbol of New Zealand – that’s what we’re known by.
So, yes Prime Minister, a Ponytail... but why the Silver Fern?.
“The reason why I support the change of a flag is simply because we will wear it, use it and promote it more. It’s therefore all about national pride and recognition of our country and showing the world how great we think New Zealand is."
Well yes Prime Minister, just like the All Blacks.
“And I don’t think we do that very much with our current flag.”
Well yes Prime Minister. Steinlager?Always with the Swinelager, yuk...
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Hard News: Art with a job to do, in reply to Mark Hadfield,
(One finds a similar attitude in beer snobs.)
…and others with a taste for something other than the mundane sugary crap that most call beer in Noo Zullund.
Being a bit of a cynic I would have gone for the Chocolate Starfish as a symbol for the leaders of our fair country. -
One of my biggest concerns is the divisiveness that the final vote may cause.
Correct me if I'm wrong but if the final referendumb is FPP then a 49:51 result would set father against son, brother against brother.
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Flag vote: John Key thinks RSA is wrong about pride
"You see the arguments from the RSA that, well, people fought and died under the flag - and that's true. They certainly did fight under the flag.
"But I think they actually fight for values and principles - human rights, women's rights and democracies."
Mr Key pointed out that many Commonwealth war tombstones featured a silver fern.
"That's the national symbol of New Zealand - that's what we're known by.
"The reason why I support the change of a flag is simply because we will wear it, use it and promote it more. It's therefore all about national pride and recognition of our country and showing the world how great we think New Zealand is.
"And I don't think we do that very much with our current flag."Fufuxache...
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How about "Refute"
As in "LA LA LA LA, I AM IGNORING YOU".
