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5:30 pm, November 3rd, 2025 - 19 comments
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Daily review is also your post.
This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day.
The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).
Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
Te Pati Maori are already wayyyy more toxic than any other party in parliament.
They need to be eradicated from every single seat.
And at their heart is the misogynist mephisto John Tamihere, making Alamein Kopu look like a fairy, corrupt as they come.
maybe explain how they are the most toxic, so people know what you mean.
When I looked at PM policies last election, I noticed a lack of policies focused on wahine Maori. I wondered if it was Tamihere's influence.
No they are reacting to the toxicity that has been thrust upon them by David KKK Seymour
I don’t think that’s entirely fair. Every party has its share of internal tensions and personality clashes: Labour and National included. It’s an unfortunate side effect of politics being full of actual, fallible people with feelings, histories, and egos rather than demigods.
TPM’s had a rough run lately, sure, but that doesn’t automatically make them more toxic than anyone else.
Nor does it undermine their reason for existing: a significant part of the Māori electorate no longer feels the major parties represent their interests, and they believe they’re better served by an unapologetic kaupapa Māori movement.
Even if that kaupapa can be messy or sometimes cuts across the mores of Pākehā politics.
Besides, have you ever watched a proper debate on a marae? This is kid stuff by comparison. Wait until you’ve had someone’s koro lecture you about how spectacularly dumb you are. And exactly how many of your tīpuna agree.
None of this excuses what's been happening. All I'm suggesting is that there's maybe a more realistic and more reasonable lens through which to analyse it.
So on your scale of dangerous (toxic) where does Act fit?
When first elected to Parliament Tamihere left his job at WaipareiraTrust. Despite promising not to take an exit package he got $198,000 after tax and a Toyota Landcruiser.
Personal trainers and good grooming does not come cheap.
WTF has Sonny Kaushal been up to?
Aside from his obvious troughing and useless working group, there's a secret memo circulating that points to some other kind of rort, perhaps a tax dodge
Come on bro, real tax dodgers do it legally, like Luxon!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/577671/minister-warned-of-crime-advisory-group-chair-s-concerning-behaviour
Heh, if the article isn't damning enough check out how he sounds when speaking about it.
Shady as a shady thing. Ala Father 'the funds were resting in the account' Ted.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/checkpoint/audio/2019011100/concerns-about-head-of-government-advisory-group-being
Talking to Mum this evening and she confessed to doing a silly thing that none of us knew about.
When the old man died, 27 years ago, she decided to get some funeral cover insurance. Cover was $5,000 and premiums are $21.37 a fortnight.
So far that is roughly $15,000 she has paid.
There is no surrender value or cash value on the policy.
I plan to speak to the company and see where we stand.
Does anyone have any ideas of what options might be available or where to from here?
Cheers.
there's a special place in hell for people that do that kind of rip off.
I'd talk to Community Law Centre first, maybe CAB.
Thanks weka, while it doesn't look good, a fair bit of the responsibility for this predicament lies with Mum.
Not telling us and then maybe pride. However the company could do a little more than the annual unsigned letter.
Would it be possible to make the case that she was not in her right mind when she entered the contract (grief , anxiety etc)and then felt intimidated to continue.I hope she has now stopped the payments?
That is a good position to take and it's pretty much the truth.
I haven't stopped payments till I get advice. As it turns out, a friend of my son works at the Community Law Centre.
I will see him at Quiz Night tonight…
did you Mum understand that over a long period of time she would pay many times more than the cover was worth? Insurance isn't supposed to work that way.
you can also check the consumer guarantees act, it covers pricing.
I'm quite sure Mum didn't have her head around the $ situation.
A day or two after Dad passed away there was a knock at the door. Two gentlemen with an envelope.
Turns out they were from the union (Dad was a welder), and there was enough funds to pay for his funeral.
That was quite an influential event that would have informed Mum's thinking.
Oh God , she was probably thinking of you kids and not wanting you to have to pay for her funeral.
Funny you should say that, she is constantly thinking of "her two boys".
That and "sick of being a nuisance"
A thing to watch with funeral insurance is that usually the oldest child is the sole beneficiary of the policy. All good if there's a trusting relationship within the family, but I'm associated with a situation where the eldest sibling has trousered the funeral insurance payout and giving the middle finger to her sibling.
Again this was a vulnerable old bloke who’d just been widowed and got sold a ‘product’ and thought he was doing the right thing for his kids.