Impeach John Key
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Date published: 8:34 am, November 29th, 2014 - 142 comments
The honour system is broken, exposing the flaws of our political model.
Open mike 29/11/2014
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Date published: 7:00 am, November 29th, 2014 - 158 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 …
Weekend social 28/11/2014
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Date published: 2:01 pm, November 28th, 2014 - 22 comments
Weekend social is for non political chat. What’s on for the weekend, gigs, film or book reviews, sports, or whatever. No politics, no aggro, why can’t we all just get along?
Guest post: What now for the Standard?
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Date published: 12:00 pm, November 28th, 2014 - 339 comments
Ad has presented a challenging guest post concerning the Standard and what he thinks should be done to improve it.
Say – anybody remember this guy?
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Date published: 10:42 am, November 28th, 2014 - 27 comments
Save Our State Houses: Labour Party
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Date published: 8:26 am, November 28th, 2014 - 12 comments
Kevin Hague says, the government’s plan to replace state housing with “social housing” will make the affordable housing crisis worse & is “economically reckless”. The Labour Party have circulated a petition to save state houses from being sold by the NZ government.
Two guilty approaches after Dirty Politics
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Date published: 7:21 am, November 28th, 2014 - 43 comments
There are two approaches to being a star of dirty politics and not wanting to answer questions about it. Both were displayed on Campbell Live last night by Jason Ede and Cameron Slater. And Andrea Vance has details on taxpayers paying for Slaters legal bills.
Two lies in 20 seconds
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Date published: 7:07 am, November 28th, 2014 - 50 comments
Contrary to Key’s claim he was directly asked about the Inspector General’s (Gwyn) inquiry. Contrary to Key’s claim the questions were asked in perfect silence. Updated with video
Open mike 28/11/2014
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Date published: 6:50 am, November 28th, 2014 - 190 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 …
Imperator Fish: The Labour Party plot to kill Cameron Slater: the shocking evidence
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Date published: 6:00 pm, November 27th, 2014 - 33 comments
Imperator Fish claims to have received from an anonymous source a recording of a conversation between senior Labour Party members in which a plan to kill Cameron Slater is discussed.
Caption contest
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Date published: 5:00 pm, November 27th, 2014 - 116 comments
Keep it seemly …
Moira Coatsworth announces resignation
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Date published: 10:00 am, November 27th, 2014 - 7 comments
Labour Party president Moira Coatsworth has announced that she will stand down as Party President in December.
Democracy, Money and Power
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Date published: 9:18 am, November 27th, 2014 - 6 comments
The stage was long ago reached where members of the US Government were told they should “wear their sponsors logo’s on their shirts”.
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.
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