Written By: redfed - Date published: 10:06 am, November 3rd, 2023 - 34 comments
Categories: election 2023, labour, leadership, Left, Politics, uncategorized
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Now that the dust is settling it is time for the Labour Party to think about its future. The last election result was a disaster. Special votes due today may get the left a few electorate seats and another seat in total but Labour looked like this election…
Written By: redfed - Date published: 2:33 pm, June 23rd, 2018 - 9 comments
Categories: Dirty Politics, labour, Politics
Tags: cameron slater, matthew hooton, simon lusk, stuart nash
Can someone remind me which party Stuart Nash belongs to? The Herald yesterday said that Matthew Hooton, hardly a left winger, had arranged a fundraiser for Nash at the Northern Club, hardly a left wing stronghold. The Herald said: Labour MP Stuart Nash …
Written By: redfed - Date published: 8:24 am, February 26th, 2017 - 99 comments
Categories: Andrew Little, labour, Media, Politics
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The media response following Jacinda Ardern's utterly convincing win in the Mt Albert by election is interesting although somewhat predictable. Both the New Zealand Herald and the Dominion Post are suggesting that Ardern may be the next deputy leader of…
Written By: redfed - Date published: 2:59 pm, January 16th, 2017 - 149 comments
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With friends like this who on the left needs enemies? From Bomber Bradbury's blog: … Andrew Little was the Leader of the EPMU right before the Pike River Mine accident. There have been all sorts of quiet angry questions about the role of the EPMU in the …
Written By: redfed - Date published: 9:19 am, April 4th, 2016 - 92 comments
Categories: Abuse of power, capitalism, International, john key, national, tax
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Panamanian Law Firm Mossack Fonseca is having a very bad week. The mass leaking of a huge numbers of papers have shown what many of the oligarchs of the world are doing to preserve their ill gotten gains. Radio New Zealand has described the situation: A …
Written By: redfed - Date published: 9:43 am, February 26th, 2016 - 123 comments
Categories: auckland supercity, local government, Politics
Tags: auckland council, Cameron Brewer, densely simpson, stephanie rodgers, unitary plan
This week the Auckland Council debated proposed changes to the unitary plan. Residents of the leafy Eastern Suburbs were up in arms at the prospect that more people were going to live there and their homes were going to be surrounded by huge apartment …
Written By: redfed - Date published: 7:00 am, February 4th, 2016 - 224 comments
Categories: capitalism, class war, john key, national, same old national, trade
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Today the Government will sign the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement at Sky City in Auckland. They know the agreement is very unpopular. They could have signed it overseas or down in Queenstown or next week but instead they chose to sign it at Sky City …
Written By: redfed - Date published: 7:30 am, January 8th, 2016 - 81 comments
Categories: act, benefits, poverty, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, welfare, you couldn't make this shit up
Tags: jamie whyte
Ex Act Leader Jamie Whyte wrote an article yesterday for the Herald about how poverty is not a problem in New Zealand. The Wellington twitterati checked out the background and discovered an unfortunate fact. He had written basically the same thing ten …
Written By: redfed - Date published: 9:00 am, September 24th, 2015 - 21 comments
Categories: auckland supercity, local body elections, phil goff, Politics
Tags: jim bolger, len brown, mark thomas, melissa lee, mount albert by election
The first candidate has announced that he is seeking the super city Mayoralty. It is right winger Mark Thomas. He is well known as National's candidate in Wellington Central in 1996 who could have won the seat but was undermined by Jim Bolger's endorsement…
Written By: redfed - Date published: 8:00 am, July 26th, 2015 - 65 comments
Categories: housing, national, national/act government, paula bennett, same old national
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The National Party Conference is on this weekend. In Sky City in Auckland. How appropriate. Yesterday Paula Bennett gave a speech to the conference about how people on the Housing Corporation waiting list are basically rorting the system. She said: "What …
Written By: redfed - Date published: 8:00 am, March 18th, 2015 - 119 comments
Categories: auckland supercity, len brown, local body elections, local government, phil goff
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Len Brown's chances of re-election appear to be miniscule. Bernard Orsman in the Herald reported this morning: Auckland Mayor Len Brown has lost the backing of key members of his campaign team, who are turning their attention to other left-leaning …
Written By: redfed - Date published: 8:30 am, January 11th, 2015 - 123 comments
Categories: International, Media, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, uk politics, you couldn't make this shit up
Tags: rupert murdoch
https://twitter.com/rupertmurdoch/status/553734788881076225 As a white bipedal male I wish to apologise for Rupert Murdoch being such a dick head. Maybe most of us are peaceful but until we recognise and destroy growing levels of stupidity within our ranks…
Written By: redfed - Date published: 8:53 am, October 19th, 2014 - 41 comments
Categories: len brown
Tags: auckland council, penny hulse
There was an interesting article in yesterday's Herald where Len Brown's future was discussed. Bernard Orsman raised the prospect of Deputy Mayor Penny Hulse having a tilt at the top job. He said: Auckland mayor Len Brown has returned from a month-long …
Written By: redfed - Date published: 4:30 pm, September 1st, 2014 - 75 comments
Categories: john key, Judith Collins, national
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Rawshark has continued his or her terrorism of the John Key government by a further dump of screenshots of emails. Something interesting struck me about the latest dump which contains a series of emails which were collected in a folder called "Mark Hotchin…
Written By: redfed - Date published: 9:00 am, August 19th, 2014 - 67 comments
Categories: john key, Judith Collins, national, national/act government
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Back in March of this year John Key issued Judith "Tipline" Collins a final warning after she misled the media and him over how many meetings she had with Oravida Management during that fateful visit to China. Stuff had this report: Prime Minister John Key…
If Labour MPs have been communicating with Slater, and it is a big if, then he should release their names. Labour can then decide how to handle it. His claims are an attention seeking power grab. I think the sooner that NZ politics can be returned to ...
You have not read the book have you. Chapter 3 confirms that Ede accessed the site before Slater's big splash and there is email traffic between Ede and Slater working out which bits of the attack should be emphasised. You seem to be arguing from a ...
My diversion alert is going off big time. Have a look at Karol's transcript. In it Key says that "National’s been nowhere near Labour’s website" and he kept repeating it. The reality is that National people had not only been near the website they had also ...
You are joking right? Hager says that National raided Labour's computer. Says that he has lots of emails between Ede and Slater confirming it. Key says there is nothing for National to answer for and Hager got it all wrong. Also says something which ...
He may say that. If he does it will make him look ridiculous. Do the people of New Zealand need to get everything he says vetted by lawyers to make sure that there is no wriggle room?
Written By: redfed - Date published: 4:29 pm, August 16th, 2014 - 155 comments
Categories: john key, national
Tags: cameron slater, dirty politics, nicky hager
John Key has for the past couple of days dismissed Nicky Hager's book and has claimed that National has done nothing wrong and has nothing to apologise for. It appears that the defence is starting to unwind however and there must be questions about the …
According to his website Slater is in Israel right at this precise moment. I guess he thought it would be more peaceful than over here.
It is a beat up. In South Auckland the damage is no worse than it has been for many years, in fact the level of damage is probably less than it has ever been. The trouble with social media is that you have one billboard defaced somewhere and a photo taken ...
Written By: redfed - Date published: 8:05 am, August 12th, 2014 - 43 comments
Categories: act, election 2014, national, same old national
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This morning Radio New Zealand reported ACT Epsom candidate David Seymour complaining about Labour's supposed dirty tactics in the seat. If Seymour really thinks that trying to persuade voters to vote tactically is dirty tactics then he should reflect on …
It looks like it is editorial comment in a periodical so it is excluded. Otherwise the Herald could be deemed to be an electoral expense!
It is a relevant topic of discussion. The article will have a political effect. I am not the Labour Party.
Written By: redfed - Date published: 8:30 am, July 25th, 2014 - 324 comments
Categories: john key, national
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The Rugby News's latest cover features John Key wearing an All Black jersey and being proclaimed as the All Black's number one supporter. My first response was amazement at the lengths National will go to win this election. The timing is extraordinary. I …
Written By: redfed - Date published: 5:26 pm, June 1st, 2014 - 101 comments
Categories: election 2014, MMP
Tags: Josie Pagani
This morning on Q&A, the right’s anointed spokesperson of the left, Josie Pagani, came out swinging at David Cunliffe over the Internet Mana Party’s use of the MMP coat-tail rule. “If [David Cunliffe] really means he’s going to stand behind Labour values …
Written By: redfed - Date published: 8:41 am, April 21st, 2014 - 282 comments
Categories: greens, john key, same old national, uncategorized, us politics, war
Tags: kennedy graham
Last November a New Zealander known as Muslim Bin John was killed by a US Drone strike. At the time he was apparently travelling in a colony of cars with Al Quaeda operatives in Yemen. You would expect that the extra judicial killing of a New Zealander by…
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