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The Tolley Challenge
Written By: - Date published: 8:10 am, September 18th, 2010 - 53 comments
On Tuesday Anne Tolley, Minister for wrecking primary education, dropped another pearl. Has there ever been a comment made by any other minister, ever, in the history of New Zealand, that is as stupid, as arrogant, as offensive, as out of touch, as brain-fartingly idiotic a statement of the bleeding obvious as this clanger from Tolley? Anything even close?
A Busy Week In Politics
Written By: - Date published: 11:41 pm, September 17th, 2010 - 19 comments
It’s been a very big week this week, so I thought I’d do a round-up, just so we don’t forget some of the ‘lesser’ lights that may have been big news had we not had so much to go on…
Tashkoff: Hide lied to ACT Board about Garrett
Written By: - Date published: 4:08 pm, September 17th, 2010 - 83 comments
According to ACT’s Peter Tashkoff, Rodney Hide misled the ACT Party Board by hiding his knowledge of David Garrett’s passport dishonesty offence. So here we have a party leader who couldn’t see the problem with accepting someone who’d committed such a distasteful crime becoming not only an MP, but ACT’s Law and Order spokesman, and so […]
Garrett resigns from ACT
Written By: - Date published: 1:37 pm, September 17th, 2010 - 80 comments
David Garrett has resigned from ACT and has indicated he will almost certainly resign from Parliament. Good, He is a scumbag, a liar, and a hypocrite. He is only resigning because he was caught. Now attention must turn to Rodney Hide. He can’t now pretend to be administering justice when he harbored Garrett and kept […]
Do I stay or do I go?
Written By: - Date published: 8:32 pm, September 16th, 2010 - 105 comments
The Labour and Green parties’ activists are in uproar over their parliamentary wings’ decision to vote for the Gerry Brownlee Enabling Act. A lot of people are saying they won’t campaign for these parties and talking of voting for a minor party or independents. Is it time to damn them and leave them? No. We’re going to win our parties back.
Key: No Surprises?
Written By: - Date published: 10:54 am, September 16th, 2010 - 22 comments
Under National & Act’s power-sharing agreement there is a ‘No Surprises’ clause. So Rodney Hide should have told John Key about David Garrett’s assault conviction and dead baby identity stealing, as well as his own drunk and disorderly conviction in 2008.
Did he?
Labour grassroots revolt against Quake Act betrayal
Written By: - Date published: 7:51 am, September 16th, 2010 - 154 comments
Hide’s dilemma
Written By: - Date published: 6:31 pm, September 15th, 2010 - 102 comments
Rodney Hide can either ditch Garrett and likely lose his leadership.
Or he can back him and likely kill off Act.
It’s a classic individual versus collective dilemma.
Day of the Jackoff
Written By: - Date published: 4:04 pm, September 15th, 2010 - 87 comments
So ACT’s nutcase extraordinaire, the man whose only talent is to make John Boscawen look stable, has done it yet again. Forever getting attention for all the wrong reasons, David Garrett has now admitted he’s been found guilty of a particularly distasteful dishonesty offence – stealing the identity of a dead infant for the purpose of […]
Democracy only for Luddites?
Written By: - Date published: 1:59 pm, September 15th, 2010 - 19 comments
In the Today in Politics column in the DomPost there’s a snippy little piece about the Fairness at Work submissions. The CTU reckons around 6000 people have made submssions against the Bill. A lot of these were made via its website. Not bad going considering the government gave people just over three weeks to have their voice heard. Anyway, the chair of […]
Losing Momentum
Written By: - Date published: 9:28 am, September 15th, 2010 - 32 comments
Momentum Recruitment is in the gun yet again, this time for placing a woman in an accounting firm when she did not have the qualifications she claimed. The fake accountant then went on to defraud the company Momentum had placed her with of $60,000. Momentum is the same company that placed fantasist Stephen Wilce in […]
Nats’ new health head: ‘Fewer doctors OK’
Written By: - Date published: 6:55 am, September 15th, 2010 - 12 comments
The state sector is in turmoil. Secondary teachers and medical technicians are striking for fair pay and against claw-backs in their work conditions. Junior doctors look set to join them. What’s the Nats’ reaction? They’ve appointed the Scottish ‘smiling assassin’, Dr Kevin Woods, who fired 1,500 nurses from the Scottish NHS and will apply the same formula here.
Hone stands by principles on foreshore
Written By: - Date published: 11:20 am, September 14th, 2010 - 52 comments
Stuff is reporting that Hone Harawira will not vote for the Nats’ foreshore and seabed legislation. And John Key is clearly upset. Sounds like someone needs the whambulance. Key’s just lost the ability to claim that he has genuinely circled the square, giving Pakeha and Maori both what they want. All he has really done is bought off the Maori Party leadership.
Garrett convicted for assault
Written By: - Date published: 8:33 pm, September 13th, 2010 - 40 comments
It seems Act MP and wannabe tough guy David Garrett has a conviction for assault.
I guess you don’t have to dig too far beneath the skin of these Sensible Sentencing Trust types to find their inner thug.
Equality of opportunity
Written By: - Date published: 7:20 am, September 13th, 2010 - 194 comments
“The Spirit Level” is a book with a simple message: An unequal society is a sick society. It’s a message that has the right wing running scared, and trying to dodge the issue by pretending that they believe in “equality of opportunity”. But across society there’s no such thing…
Right wing tantrums
Written By: - Date published: 9:25 am, September 10th, 2010 - 173 comments
The mind set of your typical far RWNJ (Right Wing Nut Job) reminds me of nothing so much as a spoiled greedy baby. Never more so than after reading a couple of notable tantrums from right wing politicians lately.
An open letter to the Maori Party from Dayle Takitimu
Written By: - Date published: 12:10 pm, September 9th, 2010 - 14 comments
The unilateral opening up of our ancestral lands and seas to drilling and mining by this Government is the most significant threat to the survival of our peoples and our way of life we have experienced in this generation. The big question in light of this the struggle is where are the Maori Party?
It’s now or never – Te Ururoa
Written By: - Date published: 11:40 am, September 7th, 2010 - 33 comments
It’s a little disturbing to hear Te Ururoa Flavell saying that the Maori Party isn’t really satisfied with National’s new foreshore and seabed bill but will vote for it for now and will re-negotiate a new deal in the future. He’s dreaming. Both major parties have every incentive to consider the issue closed. With the Maori Party supporting the law, it will be seen as a full and final settlement.
Crown ownership by any other name would smell as bad
Written By: - Date published: 2:00 pm, September 6th, 2010 - 13 comments
Unnoticed amongst all the earthquake coverage was a small article in the Weekend Dompost on the foreshore and seabed deal. Apparently, ‘public domain’ will no longer appear in the new legislation. Instead, we’ll have a new name, possibly ‘takutaimoana’, Te Reo for ‘seabed’. That sound you can hear Winston Peters is rubbing his hands with glee.
The silence of the lambs
Written By: - Date published: 10:16 pm, September 4th, 2010 - 51 comments
Where are the Greens and Labour on the South Canterbury Finance issue? Just looking at the sheer politics of the situation, this is something they should be all over. There is enormous public anger at the way National was willing to magic up $1.7 billion of taxpayer cash for its rich mates while services are being cut. This should be the tipping point, when the Left seizes the public mood for its economic vision but where’s the leadership?
Whatever happened to…
Written By: - Date published: 1:34 pm, September 2nd, 2010 - 6 comments
Few stories that have slipped through the cracks are bothering me:
Whatever happened to Tolley’s diplomatic squad investigation? What about Coldplay’s damages for when National stole ‘Clocks’? And Bennett’s apology to Fuller? And that mysterious company in the Caymans that bought Key’s shares? And why was Worth really sacked?
Newsflash: Nation not a Business
Written By: - Date published: 8:11 am, September 2nd, 2010 - 50 comments
National don’t understand macroeconomics. As such they are inflicting massive and unnecessary harm, with high unemployment and a long time until recovery.
Our $20 million bill for Nats’ expediency
Written By: - Date published: 8:48 pm, September 1st, 2010 - 28 comments
Many argue English should never have extended the deposit guarantee to South Canterbury Finance in April, or question whether the terms of the guarantee called for the pay-out. Then there’s the stink around the payment of SCF bonds. One thing’s for sure, the Nats didn’t need to spend $20 million on foreign depositors – they did it to try to kill the issue faster. Plenty of meat for Labour. Will they bite?
Reserve army of labour
Written By: - Date published: 11:47 am, September 1st, 2010 - 34 comments
Bill English came pretty close to admitting that the Nats are “relaxed” about our current high unemployment. Phil Goff came out swinging…
Sensible Sentencing Trust: a bunch of liars
Written By: - Date published: 12:30 am, August 28th, 2010 - 20 comments
The Sensible Sentencing Trust has lied about having Labour’s support.
Labour must come down on the trust like a ton of bricks for this bullsh*t.
Anything else is a betrayal of Labour’s members and their values.
Standards fiasco and more National lies
Written By: - Date published: 7:07 am, August 27th, 2010 - 14 comments
At what point, I wonder, will National figure out that they’re in a hole over “national standards” and finally stop digging? At what point, I wonder, will National stop lying to us that the parents of insert region here are supportive of national standards?
Note to Labour: show some spine
Written By: - Date published: 7:57 pm, August 26th, 2010 - 89 comments
Labour co-hosted the Sensible Sentencing Trust’s parliamentary conference.
That’s disgraceful pandering to disgraceful people.
It’s time Labour showed some spine and offered an alternative to the SST’s cowardly “lock ’em up” posturing.
Roy calls Rodney’s bluff
Written By: - Date published: 1:41 pm, August 26th, 2010 - 9 comments
From John Armstrong: He [Hide] stared at the ornate ceiling. He stared at the wood-panelled walls. And when he wasn’t staring at those things, he just stared into the void in front of him. The only direction Rodney Hide was not looking was two seats to his left….
Lost respect and trust
Written By: - Date published: 1:19 pm, August 26th, 2010 - 20 comments
I was wondering whether to write a post on the very odd things that outrage the tight little circle of right wing bloggers we have in this country. But MikeG in a comment at Dim Post made the point far far better than I could have.
Lies, damn lies and desperation
Written By: - Date published: 7:45 am, August 26th, 2010 - 43 comments
It is time we got away from Mr Key’s focus on individual greed and got back to a focus on better hospital, schools and care for those who are struggling. David Clark argues that Key’s tax cuts are going to actually drive away our high-achievers while Mr Key is telling us it’s going to bring them home.
ACT infighting continues
Written By: - Date published: 2:40 pm, August 25th, 2010 - 15 comments
The ACT Party’s in-fighting continues, with ACT member Peter Tashkoff announcing he will contest Rodney Hide for the party’s selection in Epsom. Someone pass the popcorn.
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