David Hoggard

All opinions are those of the portrait in my attic, who looks like he's having much more fun than I am.

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@Tiare_MP And this isn't even the biggest gap in NZ history! Frederick Whitaker was Premier 1863-4 and 1882-3.

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@Tiare_MP Fun fact: the 19th century electorate of Grey and Bell bore the names of two /future/ Prime Ministers - two Taranaki land blocks named for their purchasers. Although the Bell part refers to the father of the PM admittedly.

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@Tiare_MP We did, it was anti-semitic and it bombed in 1972

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You may not like it, but this is what peak parentage looks like.

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@Tiare_MP I always recommend the book Broken October by Craig Harrison, which somehow has never been adapted in a visual medium. Basically, think 70s Maori guerrillas, treated in a surprisingly sympathetic way. Schlocky, but I shits on Stead imo.

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@Tiare_MP @120Aotearoa Somehow both of these are based. Sorry, I don't make the rules.

Augusto Pinochet (Standard Oil-CIA coalition)

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Millennialhood is taking aesthetic shots of spent lightbulbs because you deliberately forgot what 'volts' were directly after the exam, surrendering to an effete whirlwind of woke avocado toast. Hitherto, when a bulb went, you just moved house - but that's Gen Z's thing now.

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@Tiare_MP I thought everyone just called him Donald tbf

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@GraemeEdgeler Lots of choice! My last preference went to the guy who wanted to stop students from voting. Even if you agree with the policy, it's a central government decision and he says little or nothing about whatever else he'd do as Councillor.

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@Tiare_MP @nzsamueltaylor Yes - to make money by selling content as widely as possible. NZ journalists can cover international news through lenses that we care about particularly. Stuff sent a guy to cover the Taiwanese election for instance.

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Is this the only roundabout in NZ with a railway going through it? Probably!

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@Tiare_MP Cursed timeline: Labour leader Shane Jones, Green leader Brooke van Velden, TPM leader Willie Jackson.

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@DrDreHistorian Real proletarians scurry through the rain across the BK carpark to catch the 2.

(As I did, in reverse, this morning to catch the Dunedin Railways trains tomorrow!)

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@Tiare_MP Under Classic!FPP, governments would only fall when Parliament met and they lost a vote of confidence - hence why the Liberals won the 1890 election but didn't start governing until 1891.

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just wanna run to u

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@Tiare_MP Hear me out: Lion /Brown/

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A propos of Port Waikato: the closest thing in NZ history to this is the seat of Northern Maori in 1890, when Sydney Taiwhanga passed away a few hours after being re-elected.

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Wake up babe, new Social Credit logo just dropped.

@tiare

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Coincidentally, "Dear Pro-family voter" is the start of my bio on the dating apps.