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Drifting
Written By: - Date published: 7:49 am, June 10th, 2011 - 27 comments
The Nats haven’t got a clue how to run a successful country, and most of the things they do try just make matters worse. We’re drifting…
Nats testing the waters on eugenics
Written By: - Date published: 8:50 am, June 7th, 2011 - 217 comments
John Key “thinks” that parents on the DPB are “breeding for a business”. Now his government is testing the waters for a eugenics program, to single out these undesirables and forcibly control their fertility.
Two great columns
Written By: - Date published: 1:31 pm, June 4th, 2011 - 15 comments
John Armstrong says NZers are like frogs in ever hotter water, not realising the incrementally more radical agenda of National.
Tracy Watkins looks at the rise of lobbyists and their lack of accountability.
How close is too close?
Written By: - Date published: 7:20 am, June 3rd, 2011 - 54 comments
How close should corporate interests be allowed to cuddle up to the government? When is a gift not a gift? If it isn’t influence what is it?
The Greens have raised important questions surrounding Westpac and the Nats.
Campbell on welfare reforms
Written By: - Date published: 2:54 pm, May 31st, 2011 - 61 comments
Good old fashioned benefit bashing. Another electoral battle line has been drawn – arm yourself with the facts!
The great debt myth
Written By: - Date published: 12:02 pm, May 31st, 2011 - 55 comments
This government’s got a real talent for manufacturing crisis to suit them. The debt disaster is a classic – in order to get out of debt we have to cut public spending to the tune of almost $1billion and sell assets.
Simplest way to get 100K off the benefit
Written By: - Date published: 6:35 am, May 31st, 2011 - 87 comments
Elect a Labour-led government. Create 100K jobs.
A Right Jackup
Written By: - Date published: 4:02 pm, May 30th, 2011 - 18 comments
So it appears that John Banks will get to face his mayoral campaign manager, Aaron Bhatnagar, as National candidate for Epsom. National will continue to ensure Act’s survival, as latest polls keep Act at about 2%.
Who has the ideas?
Written By: - Date published: 7:07 am, May 26th, 2011 - 62 comments
Last week we had National’s budget and Labour’s conference. A chance for both parties to set out their ideas for the future. National’s do-nothing budget went down like a lead balloon, while Labour started setting out promising new policy. Looks like the 2011 election campaign will be a contest between ideas and schoolboy mockery.
Lunatic prophecies
Written By: - Date published: 2:32 pm, May 23rd, 2011 - 10 comments
Cartoonist Guy Body in The Herald, with one of those pictures that is worth a thousand words…
The lazy unemployed
Written By: - Date published: 9:30 am, May 23rd, 2011 - 22 comments
John Key reckons the unemployed need “a kick in the pants”. Paula Bennett reckons the Nats’ harsh reforms mean that “the dream is over” for beneficiaries. Meanwhile, back in the real world…
National vs Auckland
Written By: - Date published: 1:42 am, May 23rd, 2011 - 23 comments
National are not acting in accordance with Auckland’s wishes. Aucklanders want public transport, and its Council wants a quality compact sustainable eco-city – National seem to be aiming to frustrate that. Aucklanders should submit their views to strengthen our voice against the government.
Stop me if you’ve already heard this one
Written By: - Date published: 8:26 am, May 21st, 2011 - 12 comments
As I think you can tell from the budget speech, that Bill English is quite a funny guy…
Beemer watch
Written By: - Date published: 8:05 am, May 14th, 2011 - 61 comments
What is going to happen to the “old” BMW limos when the government gets rid of them? The franchise that just donated $50,000 to the Nats has said it wants its share of the “honey pot”. I wonder if the Nats will oblige?
Choices choices
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 pm, May 12th, 2011 - 40 comments
Watch Jacinda Ardern clean up Jamie-Lee Ross on Breakfast this morning. Nearly half of the National Government’s much-quoted borrowing of $300 million a week is to pay for their tax cuts. That was this government’s choice. Now their choice is that everyone else has to pay for it.
Maggie Barry
Written By: - Date published: 11:55 pm, May 11th, 2011 - 17 comments
National have tonight chosen Mt Albert resident Maggie Barry as their North Shore candidate.
Cash for cars?
Written By: - Date published: 5:26 pm, May 11th, 2011 - 117 comments
A $50,000 donation from a BMW franchise to National?
This latest twist to the BMW saga has a real stench about it.
Brownlee flexing his CERA muscle
Written By: - Date published: 3:29 pm, May 10th, 2011 - 10 comments
Is the power of CERA going to Brownlee’s head a bit? Seems he’s using it to intimidate Christchurch building owners.
Beyond the welfare stereotypes
Written By: - Date published: 6:58 am, May 9th, 2011 - 124 comments
An Australian report sets out some common myths about beneficiaries, and the facts that disprove them. I have no doubt that a similar pattern of unjustified myths would be found here. Starting with our PM.
Some are more equal than others
Written By: - Date published: 11:32 am, May 7th, 2011 - 11 comments
Gordon Campbell demolishes the Nats’ hasty excuse that the blowout in Key’s diplomatic protection costs is due to a particular threat. He also takes Judith Collins to task for her argument that the police should have an unlimited and unaccountable protection budget , or lives could be put at risk…
Life in the fast lane
Written By: - Date published: 9:28 am, May 6th, 2011 - 28 comments
Judith Collins has joined the long list of National MPs with their hands buried up to the elbows in the taxpayer’s pockets. She claims it was all within the rules. That doesn’t make it right.
All quiet at the Commerce Commission
Written By: - Date published: 10:30 am, May 5th, 2011 - 23 comments
Since Paula Redstock was pushed out of the Commerce Commission with a lot of the other brilliant staff, there has not been one cartel or monopoly abuse case prosecuted by the Commerce Commission. This is the very same Commission that was previously saving us millions of dollars each year and paying for itself with its court settlements.
Elitist Nats’ heads in the clouds
Written By: - Date published: 9:40 am, May 5th, 2011 - 18 comments
Wayne Mapp revealed that Murray McCully’s air force flights to Vanuatu cost $65,000 in fuel alone and that he tried to stop McCully. Meanwhile, Key got a free helicopter ride from a photo-op but decided it was a bad look so he paid $2,000 for a 1 hour flight. Well, you and I paid $2,000. It’s always us lesser mortals who pay as Key and co bounce from cloud to cloud.
US Embassy: Political Objectivity of NZ Media Questioned
Written By: - Date published: 7:20 am, May 5th, 2011 - 9 comments
Here’s an interesting Wikileaks cable on the ‘objectivity’ of the New Zealand msm, particularly the Herald. The cable relates to the period leading up to the last election. Most of it seems like a pretty fair appraisal to me, despite it perhaps being a little optimistic about the influences ideology and profit motive have on […]
Helen Clark calling the shots
Written By: - Date published: 9:14 am, May 4th, 2011 - 19 comments
After a turbulent fortnight in politics, Helen Clark’s new look Green Party is now in place.
Own goal by National flunky
Written By: - Date published: 6:09 am, May 4th, 2011 - 24 comments
Cameron Slater has the inside word on Murray McCully’s $75,000 trip to Vanuatu on a New Zealand Air Force plane that involved flying the 126-seater there and back to drop him and seven staff off, then there and back again the next day to pick them up. This story gets worse the more details come out.
McCully joins Flying Squad
Written By: - Date published: 5:31 pm, May 3rd, 2011 - 6 comments
With his RNZAF jaunts to photo-ops, John Key has set an example his ministers seem keen to follow. Having seen Key use Air Force helicopters to enjoy the V8s and do karaoke at the Parachute festival, Murray McCully has learnt that our Air Force is there to ferry about ministers. On 13 February our Foreign […]
John Key’s shakey government
Written By: - Date published: 9:01 am, May 3rd, 2011 - 35 comments
The Nats have ‘soft-launched’ via Kiwiblog and Whaleoil that Rodney Hide and John Boscawen will both lose their portfolios and ACT will have no ministers. Farrar points out this will benefit ACT’s taxpayer funding to the tune of $130,000, which is somehow sweet while spending $500,000 on a by-election to get a mandate is a serious crime.
Choices: Tax cuts or teachers
Written By: - Date published: 7:10 am, May 2nd, 2011 - 65 comments
You’re the ruling government. Which do you choose, tax cuts for 47 millionaires or salaries for 121 new teachers? It’s not a hypothetical question…
Armstrong on Brash+Key
Written By: - Date published: 9:57 am, April 30th, 2011 - 37 comments
John Armstrong doesn’t get much wrong in the assessment of the Brash take over. Brash, with his Hollow Men legacy, anti-Maori posturing, and loony economic policies, is very much Key’s problem now.
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