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Ardern announces salary freeze for MPs

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 5:26 pm, August 20th, 2018 - 55 comments

Jacinda Ardern has announced a freeze of MP’s salaries while a review of the salary setting system is carried out.

Good luck Julie Anne Genter

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 11:00 am, August 20th, 2018 - 44 comments

Julie Anne Genter outdid Jacinda Ardern’s trip to hospital in her private car by riding to hospital to be induced on her bike.

Strewth Dutton could be Aussie PM

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:54 am, August 20th, 2018 - 87 comments

Malcolm Turnbull’s days as Australian Prime Minister may be numbered with suggestions that Peter Dutton has the numbers to win a leadership contest.

The future of blogging in Aotearoa New Zealand

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 11:25 am, August 19th, 2018 - 54 comments

Morgan Godfery of the excellent Maui Street blog has relaunched his blogsite and made it subscriber based. Is this the future of blogging in Aotearoa New Zealand?

The week of Limogate

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:30 am, August 18th, 2018 - 44 comments

Tracy Watkins and Tova O’Brien have both written articles criticising Simon Bridges’ handling of Limogate.

RIP Aretha Franklin

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:30 am, August 17th, 2018 - 14 comments

Soul diva Aretha Franklin has died aged 76.

Is Tova O’Brien really a closet leftie?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:01 am, August 16th, 2018 - 76 comments

Matthew Hooton has claimed that Tova O’Brien is an extreme left-wing, anti-National Party journalist intent in bringing Simon Bridges down. Hyperbole much?

Simon says it’s all Labour’s fault

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:20 am, August 14th, 2018 - 102 comments

Simon Bridges has kept the story about his over the top spending on limos and hotels alive by making contradictory statements and by suggesting without proof that the leak of the information is all Labour’s fault.

The end of ACT

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:03 am, August 13th, 2018 - 238 comments

With his proposal to reduce the effectiveness of Parliament David Seymour is clearly looking for relevance.

About freedom of speech

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:44 am, August 12th, 2018 - 97 comments

Simon Wilson in the Herald neatly skewers suggestions that Donald Brash is a free speech warrior and raises important issues about the interplay between free speech and attacks on “political correctness” also known as tolerance and respect.

Of course Judith should #DeleteTheTweet

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:00 am, August 9th, 2018 - 69 comments

The Project has called on Judith Collins to delete her tweet retweeting a link to a fake news story falsely claiming that France had legalised paedophilia at the behest of an international network of liberal activists determined to normalise paedophilia.

The difference between Don Brash and Southern & Molyneux

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 2:38 pm, August 8th, 2018 - 66 comments

What is the difference between Don Brash and Stefan Molyneux and Lauren Southern. And why should Brash’s right to freedom of expression be greater than Monyneux’s or Southern’s?

Let him speak

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 3:04 pm, August 7th, 2018 - 308 comments

Don Brash should be allowed to speak at a University about politics.

Dan Bidois just wants to count cars

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:46 am, August 7th, 2018 - 26 comments

Rookie National MP Dan Bidois has chosen to get up early and count the number of cars using Northcote’s T3 traffic lane.

Is Judith Collins willing to denounce the use of fake news?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 4:51 pm, August 6th, 2018 - 113 comments

Judith Collins has tweeted news from a fake news website and demanded that Jacinda Ardern does something about something that has not actually happened.

World peace may be needed to deal with climate change

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:57 am, August 5th, 2018 - 55 comments

Imagine what we could do about climate change if there were no wars.

Free speech champions?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:14 am, August 2nd, 2018 - 303 comments

Southern and Molyneux are coming to New Zealand to exercise their freedom of speech by insulting diverse cultures and attacking multiculturalism.

Simon Bridges caught barking at cars

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 2:01 pm, August 1st, 2018 - 59 comments

Simon Bridges has claimed that a miniscule increase in the unemployment rate is a harbinger of Labour caused doom and gloom for the economy.

Reason #73 why charter schools are wrong: they teach creationism

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 11:46 am, July 31st, 2018 - 78 comments

Newsroom has reported on claims that Villa Education Trust, which opened up National’s conference singing Hallelujah, has taught creationism in science classes as a preferred theory of evolution.

There’s nothing vague about National’s education policy announcement *

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:30 am, July 30th, 2018 - 30 comments

* according to Simon Bridges.

Bridges and his cheerleaders

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:46 am, July 29th, 2018 - 112 comments

National is pulling out all stops to suggest that Simon Bridges is not so bad as a leader.

National is jamming cannabis law reform

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:47 am, July 27th, 2018 - 82 comments

So National be getting pretty liberal with the Marijuana stuff.

Sanctions for beneficiary bashers

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:00 am, July 25th, 2018 - 76 comments

Simon Bridges, who is clearly struggling for relevance, has decided to try and improve his political position by bashing beneficiaries.

Brexiting the EU

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:57 am, July 24th, 2018 - 75 comments

In the United Kingdom Theresa May is facing a confidence threatening Brexit crisis, the organisers of the Vote Leave campaign are facing prosecution, and an opinion poll suggests that a significant proportion of the electorate are willing to shift right to achieve a hard Brexit.

Scrap the spending cap

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:45 am, July 23rd, 2018 - 152 comments

Economist Ganesh Nana and Alan Johnson from the Salvation Army have urged the Government to relax the fiscal straight jacket imposed by its budget responsibility rules.

The UN is shocked by NZ’s child poverty rates

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 11:40 am, July 22nd, 2018 - 89 comments

Earlier this year the United Nations expressed shock and concern at New Zealand’s rates of child poverty, homelessness, incarceration and violence. What is this Government doing to address these issues?

Is Matthew Hooton becoming a socialist?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:38 am, July 20th, 2018 - 41 comments

Occasional Standard reader Matthew Hooton has written a cogent column on industrial relations in which he realises and accepts that wages for ordinary workers are too low.

Duck Futton

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 4:59 pm, July 19th, 2018 - 46 comments

The Australians are upset with Andrew Little expressing concern about their inhumane treatment of some Kiwis living in Australia and are throwing Donald Trump type tantrums to show their displeasure.

Happy birthday Nelson Mandela

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 12:49 pm, July 19th, 2018 - 43 comments

It is Nelson Mandela’s 100th birthday. Happy birthday to him. If he was alive today he would be 100 years old.

What has happened to Simon Bridges?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:40 am, July 19th, 2018 - 42 comments

You would think that while Jacinda Ardern takes time out to properly introduce baby Neve to the world opposition leader Simon Bridges would be striding throughout the country like a colossus and really make a name for himself. But of late he has been rather invisible.