Once upon a time, once when you were mine...
Your wildest dreams/ Moody Blues
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many thanks to everyone for your good wishes. so very much appreciated. getting ready to start filming Series 14 of Vera next week. gonna be hard saying farewell.

You are like a hurricane/Neil Young
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How about those rock solid numbers eh?
‘Briefings to Police Minister Mark Mitchell show the department faces a $320 million deficit next year, and unless it gets a major cash injection it may not be able to afford the current number of constabulary staff.’ newsroom.co.nz/2024/04/18/pol…

Not long now, my pretties.

Today, I introduced a friend to this poem. She'd never heard of it. I think it's wonderful, especially the lines about picking flowers from other peoples gardens and grabbling all the samples in supermarkets..
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Flaneuse It probably means there's been a dire poll result. The problem he's got now is that the public hate Bishop, Brown and Jones. They'll have to go next.

1News The wait time to talk to someone the MSD contact centre national super line is 1 hour. This is a frontline service. Where are the staff?Nicola Willis
Maybe redeploy some sacked workers?

AM and Chippy in a 'pretty' relaxed manner. Winds up starts to nail the bs on Willis' promised cuts..'NZers are going to pay a very high price for these tax cuts if she gets around to doing them' or something. Excellent on detail. Ramps up towards end 'The country is NOT broke.'

Morena Aotearoa. Since Luxon came to power, All Blacks lost final, Black Caps lost semi final, Crusaders bottom of the table, Warriors not doing well, Singapore PM resigned, Tesla share price tanked, and now this.The golden touch. newshub.co.nz/home/new-zeala…

'Revelatory' VAL MCDERMID
'A must-read' JANICE HALLETT
'A genuine triumph' IAN MOORE
'A fantastically gothic thriller' SJ WATSON
'An absolute cracker' - T.M. LOGAN
'A first-class thriller' - CHRIS WHITAKER
Crime fiction’s first Traveller Showman detective

#KillingJericho

Morena

Are we back on track today?

Suzanne Pierce Every Tory party who gets elected does something like this. Muldoon raiding the pension scheme, Bolger cutting Welfare, Key putting GST up and not paying into SuperFund and running EQC funds down. Now we have Luxon’s mob raiding the flood resilience fund - all for tax cuts. 😡

Body in Wellington Harbour: Woman formally identified - NZ Herald - goo.gl/alerts/pfNSC1 #lowerhutt #huttvalley

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What on earth is going on?
Who is initiating this ‘pay rises for thee but cuts for you’ system, and why?
And just for once, could the health service please be allowed to function?

Junior hospital doctors plan strike in May | Newshub newshub.co.nz/home/new-zeala…

Never forget ⁦NZ National Party⁩’s attitude toward state housing.

Newshub Politics Basically, Luxon says here his Govt is forcing arbitrary cuts on Govt depts but if that results in things going wrong, he will hold the heads of those depts responsible - they won't take any blame for their own policies causing a disaster. Because insufferably weak and gutless.

ACT New Zealand Genuine question...Wld PM Luxon of gotten the 'Presidential' treatment (the soldier inspection,the Palace invite with fireworks etc) from despot son Marcos if he'd not been stumping up $41mil of NZ Taxpayer cash to the Philippines de-carbon fund?
A very expensive photo op!
#nzpol

ACT New Zealand Actually they don’t just have to have committed them they also need to be convicted. So a rich person with a lawyer prepared to sell their soul is much less likely to end up in prison. But we know you really only mean poor and/or brown people so that prob doesn’t worry you