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It’s hard to watch for sure. Harder still to feel so powerless. Hardest of all to see so many good, hard-working people being thrown under the bus. It helps to know this will pass.

Every time Luxon opens his mouth and drops another platitude his chances of re-election shrink. Today’s rolling of Melissa Lee and Penny Simmonds (both women in case you didn’t notice), accompanied by more corporate bullshit than you’d hear at a trading bank offsite, won’t help him, especially when all he can find to replace them with are Goldsmith and, FFS, Upston.

Chortling while waiting for Chris Hipkins’ take on it. And it’s only six months into the current term. Cheer up peeps. More will be revealed.

Thanks Nick, for The Nips with the late, great Shane MacGowan. Did you know they were at first known as The Nipple Erectors. Must have been a bit much even for punks back then.

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I did not know that. Unusual, the punks general went for offence rather than err... titillation.

Sorry.

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