Textses

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Date published: 8:53 am, November 27th, 2014 - 35 comments

rOb somewhat scooped me, but here’s my twitter round-up of the reaction to the PM’s office releasing the texts last night.

ImperatorFish: A statement from John Key

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Date published: 8:17 am, November 27th, 2014 - 14 comments

Apologise? What for? I’m not sorry for anything. I have done nothing wrong. It’s Phil Goff who should be apologising. It’s Phil Goff who should resign.

Submit today!

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Date published: 7:04 am, November 27th, 2014 - 13 comments

I/S at No Right Turn yesterday: “Yes, that’s right. An important bill with major human rights implications, and we have one day to speak up about it.” I/S supplies a submission guide to make it easy…

Open mike 27/11/2014

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Date published: 6:44 am, November 27th, 2014 - 269 comments

Open mike is your post.  The Standard is not a conspiracy – just a welcome outlet for the expression of views. Leaders that command respect will not be undermined by this.  The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).  Step up to the mike …

Key’s repeated reflexive lies (and giving back double)

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Date published: 2:15 am, November 27th, 2014 - 162 comments

It is now clear that Key lies repeatedly and reflexively. It is all catching up with him. From the confusion of emails and texts that emerged last night it also looks like the Collins / Slater faction is back, and giving back double.

Dirty political money – why isn’t it illegal?

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Date published: 7:30 pm, November 26th, 2014 - 39 comments

The Greens have released information that shows National having 77% of their donations in the last 3 years ($3.375 million) funnelled to them in non-public quite large donations. What are they providing for that? Well amongst other things it pays for sleazeballs like Jason Ede. But what legislation?

Scope

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Date published: 4:59 pm, November 26th, 2014 - 5 comments

Yesterday’s 2 reports are even worse for what they managed to conclude inside their scope. What was outside their scope shows things even more interesting.

Cut the crap

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Date published: 2:28 pm, November 26th, 2014 - 182 comments

Andrew Little invokes the phrase that is going to forever haunt our lying, denying and obfuscating PM.

Updated: Question time video of Little added, followed by John Key “lying, denying and obfuscating”.

Updated: General video of Little added – better in the house than expected. PM’s staff writing blogs for Cameron Slater

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A Breakdown.

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Date published: 10:44 am, November 26th, 2014 - 25 comments

There’s a lot of smash flying around concerning the SIS, the PM’s office, OIA requests, Judith Collin’s and what not. So here’s a simple, stripped back, breakdown

Honourable

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Date published: 10:20 am, November 26th, 2014 - 17 comments

A list of things that are apparently now Honourable, even if you didn’t undermine your SFO boss.

Only on Planet Key

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Date published: 9:07 am, November 26th, 2014 - 16 comments

John Key thinks that the finding by Cheryl Gwyn that his office helped Cameron Slater with his OIA request is “contested”. Who should we believe? Updated: Key will be asked this question this afternoon in Parliament.

Armstrong: Key’s Cynical Politics

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Date published: 7:50 am, November 26th, 2014 - 29 comments

Herald: The Key administration has plumbed new depths of arrogance and contempt for the notion of politicians being accountable for their actions, writes John Armstrong. Also: Andrea Vance

John Key vs the truth

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Date published: 6:51 am, November 26th, 2014 - 100 comments

Trying to dodge the fallout from the Gwyn report Key simply lies and refuses to accept the facts. He can’t get away with it. Can he?

Open mike 26/11/2014

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Date published: 6:49 am, November 26th, 2014 - 156 comments

Open mike is your post. The Standard is not a conspiracy – just a welcome outlet for the expression of views. Leaders that command respect will not be undermined by this. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …

Key: I’m Lazy, Incompetent

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Date published: 8:16 pm, November 25th, 2014 - 9 comments

Q&A with our fearless leader on his many reports.

NRT: Abuse of power: The OIA / public records dimension

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Date published: 4:28 pm, November 25th, 2014 - 13 comments

Jason Ede deleted his personal emails. Some of those emails concerned ministerial business and should therefore are public records. There is a fine of $5000 per email destroyed. Similarly the SIS was illegally refusing media requests that are OIAs.  All as dodgy as hell. Time to charge some people violating public information acts?

Chisholm enquiry whitewash

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Date published: 2:42 pm, November 25th, 2014 - 7 comments

Just as almost everyone predicted, the enquiry into Collins (dumped today to confuse coverage of the Gwyn enquiry) delivered a nice big bucket of whitewash.

Calls for Key to resign

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Date published: 2:13 pm, November 25th, 2014 - 161 comments

Calls for Key to resign, so far from Goff, Norman, and Plunket.

Gwyn report

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Date published: 10:19 am, November 25th, 2014 - 66 comments

The Gwyn report finds that the SIS failed to maintain political neutrality.

What did Key know and when did he know it?

Key will apologise to Slater but not Billingsley or Vance

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Date published: 7:30 am, November 25th, 2014 - 21 comments

John Key has apologised to Cameron Slater for releasing an email which details a campaign against a senior Public Servant.

Open mike 25/11/2014

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Date published: 6:30 am, November 25th, 2014 - 221 comments

Open mike is your post.  The Standard is not a conspiracy – just a welcome outlet for the expression of views. Leaders that command respect will not be undermined by this.  The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).  Step up to the mike …

Gwyn Report to confirm dirty politics

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Date published: 6:32 pm, November 24th, 2014 - 203 comments

What did Key know and when did he know it?

Polity: New Labour lineup: 8/10

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Date published: 12:53 pm, November 24th, 2014 - 21 comments

Rob Salmond has a look at the new Labour lineup. “…a consistent display of clarity and unity and being on New Zealanders’ side is what is needed from Labour right now”. Gives it an 8 out of 10

Little announces Labour’s new front bench

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Date published: 11:09 am, November 24th, 2014 - 170 comments

Andrew Little has announced Labour’s new lineup.

National identity

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Date published: 9:52 am, November 24th, 2014 - 49 comments

A recent report from the Waitangi Tribunal questions the “constitutional” foundation of NZ and challenges the received wisdom of our history.

Open mike 24/11/2014

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Date published: 6:35 am, November 24th, 2014 - 225 comments

Open mike is your post.  The Standard is not a conspiracy – just a welcome outlet for the expression of views. Leaders that command respect will not be undermined by this.  The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).  Step up to the mike …

Oh dear – National’s “white elephant” is still growing?

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Date published: 4:56 pm, November 23rd, 2014 - 44 comments

Public transport traffic in Auckland keeps growing by large 7.7% per year. Car traffic despite all of the motorway and roading improvements grew by just 2.3% in the whole period of 2006 and 2013 amongst commuters. But our current idiotic National transport minister wants  more roads? And won’t let Aucklanders decide what they should do despite them voting with their AT Hop cards.

Tip of the iceberg

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Date published: 9:39 am, November 23rd, 2014 - 99 comments

Looks like exploiting petrol station workers by docking their pay for circumstances beyond their control was just the tip of the iceberg of this kind of behaviour.

Open mike 23/11/2014

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Date published: 7:30 am, November 23rd, 2014 - 364 comments

Open mike is your post.  The Standard is not a conspiracy – just a welcome outlet for the expression of views. Leaders that command respect will not be undermined by this.  The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy).  Step up to the mike …

Key in for the long term?

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Date published: 10:33 pm, November 22nd, 2014 - 38 comments

John Key’s election as chair of the International Democratic Union is significant. Key succeeds John Howard who has led the IDU for the past 12 years. Key’s acceptance signals that like  four-time winner Howard, Key plans a long career as Prime Minister of New Zealand. This news should be a wake-up call for the Labour Party’s review of its election organisation and party structure.

End of the Internet Party?

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Date published: 11:21 am, November 22nd, 2014 - 192 comments

Laila Harre has quit – end of the line for the Internet Party?

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