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Daily review 02/11/2023
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So cluxon won't be attending the Pacific forum. Can I suggest that even if the govt formation wasn't in the way. He would find an excuse to not korero with our brown brothers. It just ain't his style.
Maybe he is aware that his "we will pay the fine" for doing nothing about climate change is as popular as a brick in a pavlova in the pacific
The deodorant salesman is frustrated with the vote counting process. Says we need more clarity. The fact is there's a lack of clarity because he didn't get enough votes.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/watch-live-pm-elect-christopher-luxon-to-speak-a-day-out-from-final-vote-count-release/JTEOMGAY55GQVITK34UZDEYVIQ/
And is he really the PM elect? There's not enough clarity around that either.
I think it was when Winston first went into coalition with bolger it took 12 weeks to complete. I can attest that, media hysteria aside, the country cruised along perfectly well without the pollies input.
Sometimes a myth takes hold and becomes impervious to the facts, which only emerge later. The 2017 coalition negotiations are a classic example.
The widespread perception (or right-wing spin) is that Ardern became PM because Labour offered more baubles than National. Bill English stood firm, while Jacinda caved.
Except it's not true.
Here's the first-hand testimony of Ron Mark and Simon Bridges
In 2017, Bill English offered NZ First more portfolios than Jacinda Ardern and yet Peters still chose to go with Labour: “And I will tell you straight, in the last coalition negotiations National offered more ministerial posts.”
To which Bridges added: “I can confirm that – some of us were flinching!”
Tova podcast: Ex-leadership of National, ACT, NZ First predict trouble for Chris Luxon's tax cuts | Stuff.co.nz
But did they offer Deputy PM? With the knowledge that Peters would be defacto PM for 6 months covering Ardern's maternity leave?
Jacinda's pregnancy had nothing to do with it. No one knew about it until early 2018 and Jacinda took 6 weeks maternity leave.
The public didn't know.
If you're claiming that Peters wasn't informed earlier – over something which had such a significant potential impact, then I think you are dreaming.
No one knew, not even Winston Peters.
"The pregnancy news was not shared with anyone else during negotiations, Ardern said.
"We kept that to ourselves. We didn't share it with anyone around that negotiating table. Because of course in those early stages you just don't know," she said."
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/100714264/jacinda-arderns-pregnancy-what-was-happening-on-october-13-when-she-found-out
My apologies – I got this completely wrong.
Louis is correct. It was indeed 6 weeks. Not 6 months.
New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern returns from maternity leave – BBC News
Sometimes it's as simple as "OK I got that wrong". As everyone does sometimes.
Not every reply has to be diversion and doubling down. So tiresome.
see above…..
Thank you, I appreciate that (not sarcasm).
I expect that on his 'Do Immediately' list Luxon will feature the plans for how he's going to get the election count done more quickly.
More than 567,000 special votes? The simplest solution to the perceived problem I suppose is to not have special votes. A cut and dried solution to match the style of thinking of the new regime – get rid of cultural reports to judges, all offenders go to prison, maximum penalties automatic, no electronic bail and so on.
Having seen first-hand a youngster struggling with an inflammatory bowel disorder I can only hope that this is a BFD.
Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation attenuates inflammatory bowel disease in children: a proof-of-concept clinical trial
[…]
Abstract
Background
Vagus nerve stimulation is an investigational anti-inflammatory therapy targeting the nervous system to modulate immune activity. This study evaluated the efficacy and safety of transcutaneous auricular VNS (ta-VNS) in patients with pediatric-onset Crohn’s disease (CD) or ulcerative colitis (UC).
[…]
Conclusion
Noninvasive ta-VNS attenuated signs and symptoms in a pediatric cohort with mild to moderate inflammatory bowel disease.
https://bioelecmed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s42234-023-00124-3