Archive for 2020

Daily review 10/07/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, July 10th, 2020 - 45 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 …

Jian Yang announces retirement so he can spend more time with his family

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 11:06 am, July 10th, 2020 - 54 comments

Jian Yang, he with impeccable Chinese Communist Party links and of formidable fundraising ability, has announced that he is is retiring from politics.

Did any National MP not receive confidential information from Michelle Boag?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:07 am, July 10th, 2020 - 128 comments

Michael Woodhouse has admitted that he received confidential information from Michelle Boag a couple of weeks before he said that it was “unconscionable and unacceptable” that the leaks were happening.

Everybody gets a road

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:57 am, July 10th, 2020 - 13 comments

National has made two major roading project announcements in the past week. Both announcements recycled announcements that were also made before the last election.

Open mike 10/07/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, July 10th, 2020 - 215 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 09/07/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, July 9th, 2020 - 55 comments

Requiem for a smelter

Written By: lprent - Date published: 11:58 am, July 9th, 2020 - 53 comments

New Zealand was always a odd place to have a aluminium smelter. Untapped hydroelectricity capacity at the bottom of the world. But thousands of kilometers from raw material sources. Tens of thousands of kilometers from the major markets. Now our ever rising electricity prices show that we really need that 13% of power in our electricity market rather than making aluminium.

Some Random impertinent questions about Michelle Boag’s access to confidential medical information

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:24 am, July 9th, 2020 - 81 comments

Westpac Helicopter Trust’s claim that it had not breached privacy rights of Covid sufferers raises some serious questions about why Michelle Boag was provided with sensitive information. And who she has provided it to.

Open mike 09/07/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, July 9th, 2020 - 200 comments

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Daily review 08/07/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, July 8th, 2020 - 67 comments

Walkergate: MP Quits

Written By: te reo putake - Date published: 1:49 pm, July 8th, 2020 - 65 comments

Privacy breaching MP Hamish Walker has announced he will step down at the next election. But who else should go?

Update: Muller tries to divert attention by announcing that National still want a 4 lane highway from Chch to Ashburton. Problem solved!

Trashing the country’s Covid response for political advantage

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:39 am, July 8th, 2020 - 126 comments

As details emerge about Hamish Walker’s leaking of confidential information of Covid sufferers for political advantage, questions are being asked about Todd Muller’s leadership and if National is actually committed to assisting the country’s response to Covid 19.

Open mike 08/07/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, July 8th, 2020 - 184 comments

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Clusterfuck

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 6:31 pm, July 7th, 2020 - 210 comments

Hamish Walker and Michelle Boag have admitted leaking private information about covid sufferers for political gain.

Daily review 07/07/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, July 7th, 2020 - 137 comments

Open mike 07/07/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, July 7th, 2020 - 132 comments

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Daily review 06/07/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:30 pm, July 6th, 2020 - 65 comments

National’s dilemma – business as usual is failing them.

Written By: lprent - Date published: 9:52 am, July 6th, 2020 - 99 comments

Audrey Young’s take in Granny Herald was interesting. “No ordinary Labour speech by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern”. That is because the political ‘business as usual’ approach by the business orientation of National campaigning using the politics of fear and envy doesn’t work well in times of crisis. Business simply has too short a viewpoint to be acceptable in government at present – or increasingly in our uncertain future.

Does National actually have any policy?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:00 am, July 6th, 2020 - 66 comments

National has recently been upping the campaign rhetoric but there is a disturbing lack of policy detail.

Wellington buses now: how a local authority harmed public transport

Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 7:27 am, July 6th, 2020 - 15 comments

Sure to form, Paul Swain along with Regional Council Chair and another former Labour MP Fran Wilde proposed tearing down the trolleybus wire and increasing the city’s carbon emission. This was to then promptly followed by re-tendering all the bus routes having redesigned all the bus network so that bus companies could then compete over routes and undercut each other. At one council meeting in mid-2016 Swain was questioned about the possibility of protecting drivers jobs and employment conditions. After a few questions, he lost patience, slammed in hand on the table and ended the meeting. This was the extent to which Swain and the Greater Wellington Regional Council considered supporting bus drivers during this process.

Open mike 06/07/2020

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:00 am, July 6th, 2020 - 180 comments

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White Riot

Written By: te reo putake - Date published: 2:43 pm, July 5th, 2020 - 11 comments

Love Music, Hate Racism? Here’s the film for you!

Jacinda’s address to the Labour Congress

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 1:57 pm, July 5th, 2020 - 40 comments

The text of Jacinda’s address delivered to the Labour Congress this afternoon.

National’s “intelligence unit” kicks into gear

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:01 am, July 5th, 2020 - 120 comments

A month ago a leak from National’s caucus said that they had set up an intelligence unit designed to dig up dirt on opponents. Yesterday Newshub ran a story based on a candidate’s seven year old tweets. It looks like the intelligence unit has been busy.