Question Time 19.03.2024

Sitting at home. I saw Gary's beard while the Cook Islands delegation was welcomed. I'm basically stuffed travel-wise until my new EFTPOS card arrives. The gallery was booked out anyway... - All of the parties are tautokoing Kiri Te Kanawa, who is 80 today. My take of all this: yes, National and NZ First are classical fans. For me, that's actually a gigantic problem; those conservatives are the ones who are totally and utterly unwilling to accept that Amanda is valid as a trannie.

They're the ones saying that I'm not safe for kids... This is why I'm refusing to make Just Like Yesterday... I'm not trying to cut off my dick, and I'm not interested in falsies or makeup; if the young generation want my advice, then they're more than welcome to track me down. Bear in mind that $60 an hour over 52 weeks would be $3120 per year, but some of my students have had fortnightly or monthly lessons. That's a lot cheaper than uni, and there's nothing stopping you from studying privately as well as uni. 👋🏻 In fact, my last student dropped out. - 1. Hipkins to Luxon 'Our Government believes in rights and responsibilities' - Luxon. Kāinga Ora (aka KO... I'd never heard that before). Meh... Luxon sounds like he's out on the hustings.

'We care about renters... We want downward pressure on rents, not upward pressure' - Luxon. Btw, I haven't kept score for Fantasy Parliament for a wee while, but the scores are available if people have their own teams. CH 6/10, CL 6/10. - Slightly gutted that I wasn't able to meet Kiri. I like her Gershwin album. - 2. Smith to Willis Net core crown debt = 44% of GDP. 44% is the highest that net debt has been in 30 years, comparable with Rogernomics and Ruth Richardson. Structural operating deficit = 2% of GDP. $183 billion. Nicola's doing well with this. A patsy question, but she's speaking with confidence... personally, I'd rather keep calling these jerk-off questions. That's what it really is: mutual masturbation! SS 5/10, NW 7/10 - 3. Swarbrick to Luxon Luxon using anecdotal evidence to continue poor-bashing. Will he resign if children are made homeless by his policies? - Swarbrick. He didn't answer the question... 'Is he intent on running this government on vibes?' - Swarbrick. Luxon's really on top of it with his speechifying today, though I'm docking him some points for using anecdotes. CS 6/10, CL 5/10 - 4. Edmonds to Willis I'm curious about this May budget. 'This is a Government that sees police as frontline .. the Government's tax and fiscal plans reflect coalition negotiations' - Willis. Blaming red tape... BE 7/10, NW 5/10 - 5. Nimon to Bishop More KO. More anecdotes. Where's that camera filming Nimon? It's a striking angle: eye level. KN 5/10, CB 5/10. - 6. Andersen to Mitchell 'They've just misread the room; they've read it badly' - Police Association president. The way Andersen is talking, it looks like the police pay rises have been frozen. GA 6/10, MM 5/10. - 7. Davidson to Luxon Fast-track consenting. 'We have built an obstruction economy' - Luxon. Good quote about pork-barrelling. A rather chaotic question. MD 6/10, CL 5/10 - 8. Weenink to Reti Health question. 'It is important to have targets at the forefront of decision-making ... there will be mechanisms to ensure that our health targets remain robust' - Reti. Focus on immunisation rates. VW 4/10, SR 6/10 - 9. Lan Pham to Hoggard Significant Natural Areas. Derailed by points of order. It's somewhat hard to believe that Hoggard is associate minister for the Environment... I mean, he's a farmer that wants to protect his (rich) people! 'An unjustified intrusion on private property rights' - Hoggard LP 5/10, AH 5/10. - 10. Uffindell to Mitchell Operation Emerald. 273 cannabis plants were destroyed. 'Perpetuate misery in our communities' - Mitchell. That's the new attitude to drugs. SU 5/10, MM 4/10. - 11. Radhakrishnan to Simmonds Flexible funding... what does that mean? Whaikaha - she used the Māori name. ... 'a funding blowout' regarding disabled people - Simmonds Ah, flexible funding for respite. I'm deeply confused. PR 6/10, PS 5/10. - 12. Stephenson to Seymour Pharmac. I got sidetracked by some fucking back channel crap. Short version: Jane's gone, so I simply have ceased to care about the NZSM. VUW are my enemies, and they simply wish that they had legal rights to my script. They have no such rights, and neither do ACT, National or NZ First. I get to make 2030 Shipwrecked because I choose to. That's all. TS 3/10, DS 4/10.