Archive for 2020

Folly of the year

Written By: advantage - Date published: 7:55 am, July 26th, 2020 - 41 comments

What is the strangest recent proposal for development in New Zealand?

Open mike 26/07/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, July 26th, 2020 - 81 comments

Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …

Association of Conspiracy Theorists

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:44 am, July 25th, 2020 - 81 comments

Act is proposing to introduce measures that will limit the amount of money people on benefits can spend on alcohol and tobacco. But not guns.

Open mike 25/07/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, July 25th, 2020 - 123 comments

Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …

Daily review 24/07/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, July 24th, 2020 - 37 comments

Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas 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 …

COVID-19: A human adapted virus

Written By: lprent - Date published: 9:30 am, July 24th, 2020 - 23 comments

It has been obvious about COVID-19 that it is very well adapted to humans. It has evolved a good entry system to the humans, often has mild symptoms, long pre-symptomatic infectious period, and doesn’t kill many of its hosts. What has been less obvious is where it came from. It looks more like South East Asia rather than China.

Never argue immorality with a Tory *

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:01 am, July 24th, 2020 - 53 comments

*they will drag you down to their level and beat you through experience.

Open mike 24/07/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, July 24th, 2020 - 143 comments

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Daily review 23/07/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, July 23rd, 2020 - 49 comments

We must welcome Kiwis home

Written By: advantage - Date published: 12:27 pm, July 23rd, 2020 - 39 comments

With a new Immigration Minister this week, could we please get some reality to bringing our people home?

Authorised by me

Written By: lprent - Date published: 11:00 am, July 23rd, 2020 - Comments Off on Authorised by me

I finally perused the June 2020 Third Party handbook put out by the Electoral Commission. This morning I activated my authorisation notice. Activists should consider what adverts or promotional material that they’d like me to put up in the right column on the site. It must be directly related to the election day for parliament or for the referendums. And conform to the handbook.

Open mike 23/07/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, July 23rd, 2020 - 112 comments

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Daily review 22/07/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, July 22nd, 2020 - 17 comments

Winston Peters Names Alleged Super Leaker

Written By: te reo putake - Date published: 4:44 pm, July 22nd, 2020 - 87 comments

Winston Peters has named the person he says leaked his super details. Has ACT joined National in doing Dirty Politics?

Reasons to sack a Minister

Written By: weka - Date published: 12:15 pm, July 22nd, 2020 - 154 comments

Ian Lees Galloway wasn’t sacked for an extra-marital affair. He was sacked because of his abuse of power.

ILG Goes

Written By: te reo putake - Date published: 11:02 am, July 22nd, 2020 - 110 comments

Immigration Minister Iain Lees Galloway has apparently resigned.

UPDATE: The PM confirms that she has sacked the Minister. He will not stand in the Palmerston North seat in the upcoming general election.

UPDATE: Iain Lees Galloway releases an apology.

What is the best way for a political party to handle a sex scandal?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:16 am, July 22nd, 2020 - 61 comments

Judith Collins appears to be living by her motto, giving back double, and has made public allegations that a Labour Minister has engaged in inappropriate behaviour. But is this the best way to handle a sex scandal?

Unthinkable Things

Written By: advantage - Date published: 8:41 am, July 22nd, 2020 - 29 comments

With the government clearly watching the unravelling of Australia’s Covid-19 response and putting in place $14 billion in preparation for a second infection wave, we are clearly now in a history-in-making territory of the highest instability outside a world war.

Caption contest

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 8:22 am, July 22nd, 2020 - 28 comments

Keep it seemly.

Open mike 22/07/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, July 22nd, 2020 - 149 comments

Open mike is your post. For announcements, general discussion, whatever you choose. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Step up to the mike …

Daily review 21/07/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, July 21st, 2020 - 57 comments

Raymond Huo resigning at election

Written By: Matthew Whitehead - Date published: 3:56 pm, July 21st, 2020 - 15 comments

Raymond Huo has announced he will no longer contest the 2020 election.

Strong team?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:32 am, July 21st, 2020 - 267 comments

Earlier this year National boasted that it had a strong team. But this was before two coups and the loss of seven MPs in the past few weeks, the latest for sending indecent material to a teenager which the leader initially described as a case involving mental health concerns.

Open mike 21/07/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, July 21st, 2020 - 57 comments

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Daily review 20/07/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, July 20th, 2020 - 23 comments

Another Nat MP Quits

Written By: te reo putake - Date published: 2:52 pm, July 20th, 2020 - 205 comments

Another Tory MP has quit. This time it’s first term MP Andrew Falloon.

UPDATE: The PM was informed on Friday, but chose to be discreet.

UPDATE: NewsHub are claiming that Falloon sent porn to a schoolgirl.

UPDATE: The victim was a uni student and her age means no offence was committed. Further, Falloon claims it was not him that sent the pic.

Can A Renewed Provincial Growth Fund Save Us?

Written By: advantage - Date published: 7:33 am, July 20th, 2020 - 43 comments

With the simultaneous decline of Southland’s Tiwai Point aluminium smelter, the retrenchment of Waikato/South Auckland’s New Zealand Steel’s Glenbrook Steel mill, and the near-total shrinking of NZ Refining in Whangarei’s Marsden Point it’s not unreasonable to ask what will happen to the 10% of New Zealand who are employed in major manufacturing plants.