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| Tweet Topic Started: Jan 19 2018, 09:35 PM (433 Views) | |
| Caro | Jan 19 2018, 09:35 PM Post #1 |
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All over the news media and social media and talkback is the news that our PM Jacinda Ardern has announced she is having a baby in June. Just the second (behind Benezir Bhutto) female PM to have a baby while in office. I presume some male ones have. I'm not sure about our NZ male ones. The last PM here Bill English has six children and he was the primary caregiver for a time, while his wife worked (and still works) as a doctor. So despite him being in opposition he can't really say anything negative or even slightly doubtful. Jacinda and her partner are not married, so she is breaking the mould in various ways. She is taking 6 weeks off after having the baby and Winston Peters will be acting PM then. My caregiver said she was listening to talkback (why, I asked?) and one older woman wondered why Clarke Gayford (her partner) didn't get a real job and act manly, like he ought to. The host wondered what other old school ideas she had she would like to talk about. |
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| waiting4atickle | Jan 22 2018, 03:44 PM Post #2 |
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That just about made the news here, Caro. At any rate, I heard it being discussed on the radio - although I don't recall there being any mention of the fact that she isn't married. I think eyebrows might still be raised if such a thing happened over here. I also heard that there are plans in NZ to eradicate rats, stoats and possums by the year 2050. Does that mean there'll be a surplus of possum fur on the market? |
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| Mobson | Jan 27 2018, 09:02 AM Post #3 |
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A pregnant unmarried prime minister in No. 10 is a scenario we here in England won't be experiencing for the foreseeable future...our PM Theresa May is childless and too old to care now...the First Lady PM, the Hon Margaret Thatcher got it over and done with in one fell swoop with twins of both sexes long before she entered the threshold of No.10! From recent memory, Tony Blair and David Cameron both had children whilst in office and sadly both lost a child...the Blair's in early pregnancy and the Cameron's tragically lost a son from severe disability just a year before DC took office. Tony Blair was the first serving prime minister in 150 years to father a child after his 45 year old wife Cherie Blair QC gave birth to their fourth child in May 2000; a son called Leo named after Tony Blair's father; the couple already had two sons, Euan 16 and Nicky 14 and a daughter Kathryn, 12. They all lived at No. 10. David Cameron and his wife Samantha, with their two surviving children Nancy aged 6 and Arthur aged 4, entered No.10 when he became PM in May 2010...their fourth child Florence Rose Endellion, who was born that August whilst the Cameron's were on holiday in Cornwall, spent her whole life living at No. 10 until her father departed to make way for Theresa May in 2016. Edited by Mobson, Jan 27 2018, 11:01 PM.
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| waiting4atickle | Jan 28 2018, 12:18 AM Post #4 |
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Tony Blair was doubtless guilty of many things, but I don't believe he ever lost a child - you must be thinking of Gordon Brown, Mobs. David Cameron, of course, nearly lost a second child - he and Samantha (in)famously left Nancy behind at a pub. |
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| Mobson | Jan 28 2018, 01:38 AM Post #5 |
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No Tony and Cherie Blair lost a child in early pregnancy which is as I said above...It was all over the press in 2002 and Tony wrote about it in his autobiography! I deliberately forgot about the Browns...his Mrs was alright but he, at times, was beyond the pale and as now with Trump as US President, I never reconciled Gordon Brown as PM! 😩 Edited by Mobson, Jan 28 2018, 04:05 AM.
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| waiting4atickle | Jan 28 2018, 02:10 AM Post #6 |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/1747863.stm |
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| Mobson | Jan 28 2018, 10:47 AM Post #7 |
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Very sad... |
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| waiting4atickle | Feb 2 2018, 02:49 PM Post #8 |
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Memory plays strange tricks. As you say, Mobs, Cherie Blair's miscarriage was all over the press - much to her disgust, as the news was cynically leaked to distract attention from the Iraq situation - and yet I had completely forgotten about it, whereas I well remember the Browns losing their baby. Perhaps that's because, however unreasonable it may be, the loss a child post-birth somehow makes more impact than the loss of a foetus. |
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| Mobson | Feb 3 2018, 07:12 AM Post #9 |
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To many, they are the same...❤️ 💙
Edited by Mobson, Feb 3 2018, 07:13 AM.
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| Mobson | Apr 9 2018, 02:04 AM Post #10 |
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Caro Hi...your PM Jacinda Ardern, the 'pregnant prime minister', got pride of place on the front page of the Sunday Times Magazine today...I'll see if I can copy and paste the interview article inside on her work/life balance and meeting Barack Obama. Below are pictures used on the front page and the interview...which show her looking extremely happy and healthy! Edited by Mobson, Apr 9 2018, 01:47 PM.
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| Caro | Apr 9 2018, 10:49 PM Post #11 |
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Thanks for that, Mobson. Usually if our PM makes the front page of an overseas paper we hear about it in our news media, but I haven't noticed this. How lovely she looks in orange. Not everyone can wear orange. I think her baby is due in June. Not long to go if so. Yes, I see I have that right - thought that must be too soon, but it's not. |
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| Caro | Jun 22 2018, 12:29 AM Post #12 |
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Our PM, Jacinda Ardern, has given birth to a baby girl, weighing 7lb 3oz, yesterday NZ time about 4.45pm. Not named as yet, but it is known she has had a private congratulatory notice from the Queen. (Who announced that, I wonder?) All our political parties have said how wonderful the news is which is nice to hear. She is taking 6 weeks maternity leave, and the Deputry PM Winston Peters, not a member of the Labour Party, but from a small coalition party NZ First, is taking over in the meantime. He is prone to making inflammatory statements and leaves eyebrows lifted at his interviews with reporters. But he is a very polished and experienced and stylish politician so I am not expecting anything majorly controversial to happen in his rule. |
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| Mobson | Jun 24 2018, 11:10 AM Post #13 |
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Congratulations to your PM and all of you who support her in New Zealand. Jacinda strode out from the hospital looking extremely pleased and happy to introduce her new baby daughter to the waiting presscore and New Zealand. With her smiling husband at her side the first thing she wanted to do was inform everyone of the name they have chosen...Neve Te Aroha Ardern Gayford...or Neve Gayford for short! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-44592534/jacinda-ardern-baby-pm-reveals-daughter-s-name |
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