I could have been blown over by Wellington's non-existent wind of yesterday when I heard National Party leader Chris Luxon saying after the Loafers Lodge Hostel fire tragedy that he's all in favour of regulation. Interviewed on RNZ's Morning Report he said...
Incapability "Drongo" Brown is Labour's most potent weapon for winning this year's election. He should be given as much voice (rope) as possible so people know what they are getting when they vote for a cost-cutting fixer.
In terms of legacy, the outstanding thing Jacinda Ardern did for Labour and the Left is that she saved the party from oblivion. Labour was staring down the barrel of it's 4th successive election defeat when she won the party leadership. Had that occurred, ...
Lost baggage is an absolute tragedy for those poor young OEs returning for Lucy and Olliver's big wedding day, but what about Potholegate? Now there's a real problem. Two motorists had their tyres on their double-cab ute damaged and Jacinda is not out ...
I don’t know what all this carping on about personal responsibility is? Look at poor the-buck-stops-with-me Chrissie Luxon - when he said he was mixing it in Te Puke and he was in fact sunning it in Hawaii, it was clearly a staffer’s fault just as it was ...
A notable omission from your rogues gallery is the former National Party candidate Jake Bezzant who impersonated his former girlfriend using explicit images of her in order to impersonate her in sexting conversations with other men. https://www.stuff.co.nz...
We have had a one in 100 years health crisis and Labour has dealt with it exceptionally well, but what I, Verity Johnson and many other supporters are exasperated about is the lack of ambition of this government. Labour when it was elected with an absolute...
I wonder what Nicola Willis' views are on climate change and energy given her father's various roles in the oil industry? NZ Energy Corp Board of Directors James Willis, Chairman James Willis is based in Wellington, New Zealand, and has an extensive ...
Surely the Left should throw its support behind Crusher - she is the gift that keeps on giving to Labour. Does the Nat's ad campaign a few elections back of a smooth rowing eight up against a Labour boat with rowers paddling in different directions ring ...
It's good to have catalogued the multitude of positives arising from having a Labour government. The one glaring omission of course is tax reform and Ardern's failure to accept the recommendations of the Tax Working Group. Over the years we have scrapped ...
Regarding no jab no job, this is a very interesting legal opinion from high profile, well-respected legal firm Minter Ellision that employers can under current legislation mandate, due to health and safety concerns, that workers must get a vaccination. ...
I don't understand why the government has been so soft on Air NZ's minority shareholders. If the airline needs propping up, and all shareholders are not prepared to come to the party, then the minorities should take was is known in business as a "haircut",...
I agree. Jacinda Ardern promised transformation on poverty and equality and instead she is leading a Manana Ministry., locked in the Covid headlights leaving all else until the never-never. Housing is fundamental to addressing poverty and equality and the ...
That is the beauty of the BLT - it takes the mind-reading out of the equation - you are assumed to be selling for capital gains within the time frame. Because house prices are now so high, there is almost no rational explanation for investing in a second+ ...
Incognito has made an assumption about the Bright Line Test that renders his argument incorrect. The BLT is not the introduction of a tax, such as a capital gains tax, but merely a clarification of existing tax law. It simply clarifies that if you sell ...
Ardern promised transformation, mainly on poverty/ inequality, and climate action but has delivered next to nothing. Sure the Zero Carbon Act has been passed but nothing has changed in terms of our rising emissions. The only thing we will get is a report ...
Polls consistently show the Nats are unlikely to get much more that 30% but Judith Collins says she won't step down despite her previous statement saying that any Nat leader who can't get the Nats 0ver 35% should quit. Her excuse? She said she made the ...
Surely it's not too late to replace Crusher with Dr Shane (I'll tell you what - Maoris can go to Harvard you know)?
Todd Muller describes the guilt/concern he felt on waking up as National leader, knowing he was leading a party with an over-riding concern for money and power and no moral values: "It started with an intense prickling sensation in my head, followed by ...
Steve Braunias had the best analysis in The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/22/first-tv-debate-jacinda-ardern-judith-collins-avoids-being-horror-show His accurate zinger on Jacinda was that she "was as tranquil as a lake and just as ...
I think you need to update this story. There is a third more significant snafu and unlike the second howler of only $88m, it is almost equal to their first $4b howler. Stuff, whose political reporters give the impression of being paid-up members of the ...
Why not let him take over before the election? Crusher is completely unanimated and looks like she wishes she was somewhere else. I was impressed by Reti on Q&A a while back when he took a far more reasoned approach to dealing with Covid than his party ...
Given the extra time until the vote and Miss Collins' abysmal performance to date, I'm opening a book on National having a new leader by then. Any takers?
Judith Collins on politics in another time when Nats in control: “It’s not turn-sies time.”
According to Pattrick Smellie on BusinessDesk, on the Reid Research poll, not one National MP would get into parliament, including Paola Goldsmith. Can someone explain then why would Goldsmith cede Epsom to ACT, especially given if ACT gets ~3% of the vote...
Judith Collins increases the huge trust gap between her and Jacinda as revealed in the Reid Research poll when she was caught out with her porky that no prisoners escaped when she was Corrections Minister: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/...
If you had any doubts about how Jacinda would perform against Crusher - or the upcoming election result - take a look at the highly anticipated first clash in Question Time, where Jacinda crushes Collins like a Canterbury prop taking on a half back. https...
Keep in mind Bob Hawke's comment, which was reprised when the Andrew Little suddenly stepped down to open the way for Jacinda, that the best time to be appointed leader of a party is six weeks before an election. That's what happened to Hawke when he won ...
This from Pattrick Smellie on Businessdesk: Parliamentary records show Boag and Walker have had dealings in the promotion of legislation on behalf of at least one client of Boag's. In August last year, NZ First MP Tracey Martin accused Walker in Parliament...
Surely Epsom is in the hands of Labour voters. There were 7067 votes for Labour's David Parker in Epsom in 2017. If those 7000 hold their noses and cast their constituency vote for National, then added to the 10,986 National voters who could not stomach ...
Five words in your treatise says it all "Labour appeared incoherent on Brexit".
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