Statler & Waldorf (ex animal)

I have not the rhythm to drum. a favourite muppet.

[Statler & Waldorf (ex animal) @Humour_ous]

@philipcrumpX @spacefish2 To be fair the journalists from RNZ could have been a bit more neutral over the years and perhaps that hasn't been too helpful

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@rosey_nz @saltyreigns @NZNationalParty @nzfirst @actparty I heard similar last night from commentators yet nothing about Hipkins? NZ has never yet returned an unelected PM nor has it ever elected a Divorced PM. If labour had a different leader I think the results would've been very different.

[Statler & Waldorf (ex animal) @Humour_ous]

@MikeNewZ_ Your hope is but one opinion, the numbers are the nations combined opinion.
Yet I agree the electoral math needs to be updated we previously all asked for less MPs now we gunna get some MPs sitting in aisles in the house on deck chairs.

[Statler & Waldorf (ex animal) @Humour_ous]

@anon_opin In the lighting of many bathrooms the red/green is indistinguishable to some people with colour blindness because no reference colour nearby. Sorry I upset you completely unintentionally, maybe next time your crywank should be more vocal so others know its occupied.

[🗣 Free Speech Union ✊ @NZFreeSpeech]

Dr David Smylie spent almost 40 years as a doctor in Britain, Australia, the US and New Zealand, including two years in Aboriginal health in the Australian outback. By 2022 he was a senior partner at Cambridge Medical Centre in the Waikato. He’d never had a single complaint made against him to the Medical Council.

That November, a sales rep emailed him an invitation to a sponsored education evening. Her email opened “Ate Marie Everyone”. She meant “ata mārie”, good morning.

He replied the moment he read it, late at night, to her alone. Four sentences: a joke about the typo, a grumble about how much te reo was in her email, and a request to be taken off the mailing list. He’s the first to admit it was a knee-jerk reaction, and he regrets sending it.

Nine days later she wrote back calling it “offensive and inappropriate”. The same day, her manager reported him to the Medical Council.

Within days, Dr Smylie had written an apology for her. The Council never passed it on, at one point claiming it would “interfere with an active investigation”. When a Professional Conduct Committee later interviewed the rep, she said an apology would have made her feel a lot better. His was sitting in the Council’s file. Nobody had told her.

When the committee’s chair suggested she meet him, another member warned her off, saying it could be bad for her mental health, and added: “it’s tough calling out racism.”

In September 2023 the committee ruled his email “objectively racist, offensive, and insensitive”. Whether he meant any harm was “of little consequence”. His four sentences had “the potential to contribute to current health inequities”.

The penalty was a year-long “educational programme”: monthly sessions with a supervisor who reported on him to the Council, readings on colonisation and institutional racism, and strategies for managing his “implicit biases (which are inevitable)”. He was expected to pay for it, at $125 an hour plus GST. To finish, he had to write two essays, including 1,000 words on structural racism in New Zealand health care.

Before the programme even started, he’d apologised to the rep directly, and she had accepted. His lawyers asked for the programme to be halved and the essays dropped. It went ahead anyway.

He sat through all twelve sessions. He refused to write the essays, as a matter of principle.

“It is the nastiest thing I’ve ever gone through in my career and my life,” he told the Free Speech Union.

Dr Smylie now practises overseas.

Health NZ is short-staffed and recruiting from abroad. The Medical Council spent a year re-educating a GP with almost 40 years’ experience over one private email, and New Zealand lost him in the process.

[Statler & Waldorf (ex animal) @Humour_ous]

@fiscokid01 @Ostrov_A Those 79% of Australians who are pro Palestine are not activists though, thats the key word.

[Statler & Waldorf (ex animal) @Humour_ous]

@GregPresland Yet it's a prime ministers prerogative to set the date. Are you saying that the electoral commission should do that instead?

[Statler & Waldorf (ex animal) @Humour_ous]

@henrycooke Have they tried using Manurewa Marae? They get some pretty special numbers

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@Dame__Jane I was considering it. I do read and watch a lot of documentaries etc on the death penalty, dearh row etc, it intrigues me.

[Statler & Waldorf (ex animal) @Humour_ous]

@chellew_grant @saltyreigns Whats trending? Clymidia?

[Statler & Waldorf (ex animal) @Humour_ous]

@Suitandtie9999 Its giving them media time ... just stop already

[Statler & Waldorf (ex animal) @Humour_ous]

@Ewenr Didn't Kieran say Hipkins promised not to on breakfast Tv?

[Statler & Waldorf (ex animal) @Humour_ous]

@the_salty_one_ Do not give the topic traction by clicking etc. if its fair Key says things its fair Ardern does, when chippy gets rolled I wonder if media will use form PM Hipkins with him? I can't recall how they frame Bill English.

[Statler & Waldorf (ex animal) @Humour_ous]

@ScottSimpsonMP @NZNationalParty the HPA and lack of recognition of Coromandel recreational fishers is the reason why my electorate vote as a resident will be other or nothing, I've never voted a non national candidate before now.

[Statler & Waldorf (ex animal) @Humour_ous]

@IrishAotearoan @NZNationalParty @NicolaWillisMP Have always voted Nat Electorate MP and either Nat or ACT party
The 3 (?) term Nat MP has failed to deliver and the fisheries and reserves changes as well as the local government cockup Im definitely not alone in thinking of voting for a non nat candidate. @ScottSimpsonMP

[Statler & Waldorf (ex animal) @Humour_ous]

Two words
Manurewa Marae

[🥝Richard.🇳🇿🇹🇼🇺🇦🇮🇱 @dick_numbers]

Folks, no one will be standing at the polling place with a clip board demanding you justify splitting yr vote and calling you an immoral fiend & traitor if it’s to increase yr preferred party block.

The way some people are carrying on here you’d think there will be.

[Statler & Waldorf (ex animal) @Humour_ous]

So Christa Pike requested an all female team preform her execution was in the news prior to the events during her procedure, but hasn't been mentioned since?

[Statler & Waldorf (ex animal) @Humour_ous]

Signposts will now need warning signposts nearby!
https://t.co/mPope12PYg

[Statler & Waldorf (ex animal) @Humour_ous]

@henrycooke Didn't the previous labour government run workshops for ministers and mps on oia ?

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@NZNationalParty I was a vote local Nat candidate & party vote undecided this local council cockup has changed my opinion of Nationals stable governance ability. This is diabolical. And for the first time in my life will probably not vote a blue candidate.