Open mike 16/04/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 16th, 2015 - 104 comments
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Daily post 15/04/2015
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Date published: 5:30 pm, April 15th, 2015 - 29 comments
This is an experimental post to see how a second open mike type post would work. Daily review is also your post. This provides Standarnistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other.
Key the “statesman” strikes again
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Date published: 3:37 pm, April 15th, 2015 - 71 comments
Trident
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Date published: 2:21 pm, April 15th, 2015 - 20 comments
Nothing will shift the main UK parties’ attitude on nuclear weapons. Right?
Kiwirail looking to dump electric trains for diesel
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Date published: 10:24 am, April 15th, 2015 - 57 comments
There is more information and a petition here
Key’s pre-budget falls flat
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Date published: 8:29 am, April 15th, 2015 - 8 comments
Key’s attempts to drum up enthusiasm for this year’s upcoming budget have fallen absolutely flat. And as usual, promised funding actually represents an ongoing cut in real terms.
Burn the Cabinet Manual
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Date published: 7:27 am, April 15th, 2015 - 54 comments
Key won’t take any action over Simon Bridges’ clear breach (excellent work by Rob Salmond at Polity) of the Cabinet Manual. So, might as well burn the thing, at least for the remainder of this government’s term. Key has no intention of being held to account, or holding his ministers to account, by or for anything at all.
Open mike 15/04/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 15th, 2015 - 184 comments
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Daily post 14/04/2015
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Date published: 5:30 pm, April 14th, 2015 - 32 comments
Daily review is also your post. This provides Standarnistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other.
Michael Woodhouse: a fool or a liar?
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Date published: 12:00 pm, April 14th, 2015 - 88 comments
When the Minister for Workplace Relations and Safety doesn’t know the first thing about his portfolio, there’s only one option left: he’s lying.
The difference between a surplus and landing a 747 on a pinhead
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Date published: 11:55 am, April 14th, 2015 - 16 comments
John Key’s latest pronouncement is that achieving a budget surplus is as difficult as landing a 747 on a pinhead. Michael Cullen must be a super airline pilot if this is the case.
Destination – Next Progressive Majority
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Date published: 11:00 am, April 14th, 2015 - 7 comments
At a Fabian Society event on Saturday April 18 in Owen Glenn Building, Auckland University speakers Michael Cullen, Peter Harris, Sarah Helm, Anne Martin, Richard Harman, & Annie Newman will offer their thoughts on what will be needed for political strategy, economic policy, government formation under MMP, political communication and organisation if we are to reach the destination.
Plenty of room for discussion and chat afterwards. All interested welcome; please register here.
Cameron Slater has a idiot for a lawyer
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Date published: 8:00 am, April 14th, 2015 - 42 comments
Instead of taking the shot granted by the High Court of simply making an appeal, some incompetent legal dunderhead made the idiotic move of not filing. Then they took the much harder step of belatedly attempting to get the Court of Appeal to allow them to appeal. Complete stupidity. But this is a lawyer with Cameron Slater for a client..
Key’s surplus excuses
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Date published: 7:23 am, April 14th, 2015 - 69 comments
Apparently this budget surplus that the Nats have been going on about for the last 6 years is an “artificial” target that is “like trying to land a 747 on a pin head”.
Open mike 14/04/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 14th, 2015 - 116 comments
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Daily review 13/04/2015
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Date published: 5:30 pm, April 13th, 2015 - 21 comments
This is an experimental post to see how a second open mike type post would work.
Daily review is also your post. This provides Standarnistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other.
I want that left wing bastard gone
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Date published: 4:01 pm, April 13th, 2015 - 279 comments
Joe Trinder at Mana News claims Key’s direct involvement in the attack on Campbell Live.
RSA oppose flag change
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Date published: 12:55 pm, April 13th, 2015 - 63 comments
Key’s proposal to change the flag is an expensive and unnecessary circus, and this should be the end of it.
Clinton running for president
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Date published: 11:04 am, April 13th, 2015 - 38 comments
As expected, Hillary Clinton has announced her candidacy in next year’s presidential election.
Who is Miranda Devine?
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Date published: 7:30 am, April 13th, 2015 - 46 comments
Miranda Devine is the person who recently wrote a really obsequious article on John Key in the Daily Telegraph where she described him as one of the best Conservative Prime Ministers in the world. But a reading of her other published material suggests that caution should be applied before applying too much weight to her opinions.
Open mike 13/04/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 13th, 2015 - 67 comments
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Which Deficit?
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Date published: 4:08 pm, April 12th, 2015 - 64 comments
So, the much-touted and long-awaited government surplus looks unlikely to arrive this year. Is that a surprise? No. Does it matter? Not much. The only reason for sparing much time on the failure to eliminate the government deficit is that it relates to a target that the government itself identified as the crucial test of […]
James Shaw responds to Rodney Hide’s Herald column on the Greens leadership
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Date published: 11:46 am, April 12th, 2015 - 41 comments
Rodney Hide suggested in the Herald this morning that if James Shaw was leader of the Greens there would be a greater chance they could go into coalition with National. James Shaw does not think so.
UK Labour to crack down on tax cheats
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Date published: 11:34 am, April 12th, 2015 - 21 comments
UK Labour have promised “all-out war on tax avoidance and evasion”. NZ Labour should follow suit.
A police investigation – Part One
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Date published: 7:00 am, April 12th, 2015 - 84 comments
There’s nothing particularly wrong with Bryce Edwards’ article except that it ignores how National Ltd™ Police Ministers have successively sat by and done nothing in response to the on-going police failings.
Open mike 12/04/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 12th, 2015 - 142 comments
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NZ emissions disaster in The Herald!
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Date published: 3:21 pm, April 11th, 2015 - 112 comments
Well knock me over with a feather. The disaster that is NZ’s greenhouse gas emissions has broken out of the ghetto of Twitter and Parliament TV, and made it on the front page of the (digital) Herald.
Caption competition
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Date published: 12:00 pm, April 11th, 2015 - 86 comments
Head of Mediaworks Mark Weldon and his mate John. Be nice about it …
The magical disappearing surplus
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Date published: 10:36 am, April 11th, 2015 - 67 comments
John Key and National have staked a huge amount of their credibility on returning the country’s books to surplus this financial year. Looks like they are going to fail.
O’Sullivan on Campbell, Weldon and Key
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Date published: 8:39 am, April 11th, 2015 - 140 comments
So it’s not just loonie leftie bloggers noting the political element to the attack on Campbell Live.
Open mike 11/04/2015
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Date published: 6:00 am, April 11th, 2015 - 117 comments
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