national

Categories under national

same old national (1,637)

Charter schools fiddling their results

Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 8:58 am, December 9th, 2016 - 110 comments

Charter schools are fiddling their results. Just another example of the way that education for profit is all about profit, with education hardly getting a look in. All of National’s ideological interventions in education are failures.

Bill English to be elected as National Leader

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:30 am, December 9th, 2016 - 222 comments

Video of left wingers responding to the news that Bill English will be National’s next leader.

Collins withdraws and pledges to support English

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 1:59 pm, December 8th, 2016 - 162 comments

Judith Collins has withdrawn from the leadership race and pledged support for Bill English.

Caretaker Bill, Cigar Coleman, and Countess Homogenised

Written By: Bunji - Date published: 11:18 am, December 8th, 2016 - 13 comments

The Standard is offering to the National Party leadership contenders guest post slots

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 12:15 pm, December 7th, 2016 - 128 comments

In the spirit of bi partisanship the Standard wishes to offer the candidates for leadership of the National caucus guest post slots and the ability to answer readers’ questions.

Three’s a crowd

Written By: Mike Smith - Date published: 9:28 am, December 7th, 2016 - 24 comments

The policy wonk, the ambitious change-maker, or the no-bullshit bullshitter – the contenders for National Party Prime Minister set out their stalls yesterday with John Campbell. Just like the Kaikoura quake, their pitches exposed some complex fault-lines. It’ll be a long week in politics.

Caption contest

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 1:14 pm, December 6th, 2016 - 46 comments

bunch-of-nats

Nat MPs one week window of relevance

Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 11:08 am, December 6th, 2016 - 48 comments

Key has been so dominant for so long that Nat MPs have become invisible. But now, for one glorious week, they enjoy a brief window of relevance. And the infighting has begun.

John Key’s legacy

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:34 am, December 6th, 2016 - 224 comments

What is John Key’s legacy? Rampant Crown debt, child poverty, homelessness, climate change, dirty politics …

Who will be the next National leader?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 3:15 pm, December 5th, 2016 - 119 comments

Following the shock resignation of John Key as Prime Minister the question will be asked. Who will the next leader of the National Party be?

Key’s gone …

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 12:59 pm, December 5th, 2016 - 469 comments

John Key has announced that he will be standing down as Prime Minister from December 12, 2016.

The many and varied thoughts of John Key on the Mt Roskill By election

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:17 am, December 5th, 2016 - 26 comments

An analysis of things that John Key said about the Mt Roskill shows a series of contradictory positions were taken at various times of the campaign.

Press editorial on failed state house sell-off

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 1:09 pm, December 3rd, 2016 - 11 comments

It’s more than a “dreary lack of ambition”, it’s a deliberate plan to underfund / rundown the stock to “justify” selling off, so that the Nats can indeed “wash their hands” of their obligations.

Key “concedes” Mt Roskill by election

Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 6:39 am, December 2nd, 2016 - 21 comments

Key says he expects National to lose in Mt Roskill – under the bus for Parmjeet Parmar. He won’t be attending the wake either, and he spins another lie just for good measure.

By-election: Michael vs Fia?

Written By: Bunji - Date published: 1:03 pm, December 1st, 2016 - 36 comments

Whose going to be added Parliament on Saturday? It should be Michael Wood, but his competition is Misa Fia Turner, who looks an even worse candidate than Parmjeet Parmar.

Meanwhile, Parmjeet is trying to claim she’s the local one!

Clearing the decks

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:30 am, December 1st, 2016 - 127 comments

National is readying itself for the next election by getting rid of some MPs. And Nick Leggett has finally disclosed his true political colours.

Massive education fail

Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 11:58 am, November 30th, 2016 - 45 comments

Thanks National: “NZ kids worst at maths in English-speaking world”.

Todd Barclay faces Clutha-Southland selection challenge

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 8:09 am, November 29th, 2016 - 47 comments

Todd Barclay is one of National’s worst MP’s, who made a mess of the party apparatus he inherited from Bill English. No surprise that he is facing a selection challenge. Ex Philip Morris tobacco vs. Merrill Lynch banker – lucky Clutha-Southland!

Child abuse and poverty – still with us

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 11:32 am, November 28th, 2016 - 33 comments

As topics like Trump and the quakes take the limelight, the slow tragedies unfolding in NZ carry on in the background.

NRT: “A stupid idea”

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 10:28 am, November 28th, 2016 - 90 comments

I/S at No Right Turn on Key’s statement that a gender-balanced cabinet is “a stupid idea”.

Treasury predictions – not good

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 8:08 am, November 27th, 2016 - 66 comments

Brian Fallow in The Herald summarises the take-home messages from the latest Treasury report. National have us on track to disaster.

The Mount Roskill by-election and the strange case of the missing horse shoe

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:44 am, November 26th, 2016 - 47 comments

One News has reported on the strange case where a local Mt Roskill resident was threatened by someone describing themselves as Parmjeet Parmar’s right hand man, had a horse shoe thrown at him, complained to the police, but was subsequently told that the horse shoe had been destroyed.

National better late than never on pay equity

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 8:04 am, November 26th, 2016 - 5 comments

A 2015 court decision forced National’s hand on pay equity. This week the equity working group reported back. To its credit National is accepting the recommendations, and unions are hailing a big win. But the final form of any law is not yet clear.

National plans to sell Housing Corp home Key grew up in

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:30 am, November 25th, 2016 - 39 comments

John Key, the state house tenant turned good who has relied heavily on his humble upbringing is overseeing the sale of the state house he grew up in.

Sale of Key’s old house a powerful symbol

Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 7:57 am, November 25th, 2016 - 11 comments

English admits that the government has done a poor job of maintaining state houses, and uses it as an excuse for privatisation – its by design. The attempted sale in Christchurch, incuding Key’s childhood home, is a powerful symbol of the way this government likes pulling up the ladder that they used behind them.

Politik on Labour/ Greens

Written By: lprent - Date published: 7:57 am, November 24th, 2016 - 18 comments

I was rather amused reading Politik’s “Despite the pact Shaw takes on Robertson“ and was struck by the strange way that some political commentators (and probably some politicians) view the world at the political coalface. They really need to start to think about political parties as being like any other organisation. Tactical compromises without a strategic focus will always kill any organisation – eventually.