political parties

I agree with Josie Pagani, mostly

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:19 am, December 9th, 2016 - 36 comments

Josie Pagani has criticised her friend Nick Leggett for switching to National and not sticking to his principles.

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Judith Collins has withdrawn from the leadership race and pledged support for Bill English.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

David Shearer resigning?

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:56 am, December 8th, 2016 - 167 comments

The Herald has reported that David Shearer is expected to resign, forcing a by election in the new year.

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.

Labour landslide – media roundup

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 6:12 am, December 4th, 2016 - 169 comments

Audrey Young: “The Labour leader has described the win as ‘a bloody nose for National’. It is more like a bloody nose, a black eye and broken jaw.”

Update: As of 11am not a single story on Mt Roskill appears on the online front pages of either The Herald or Stuff. What a surprise!

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.

Labour sticks to the high road

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 8:44 am, December 3rd, 2016 - 128 comments

As the confused media pile-on to Labour continues, it’s good to hear that the party is planning to stick to the high road.

Labour moving “too far to the left” – Andrew Little responds

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 9:02 am, December 2nd, 2016 - 264 comments

According some Legget guy that no one has ever heard of, Labour is moving “too far to the left”. Andrew Little responds, in the kind of unguarded human moment that we seldom see from our politicians.

Fund the Police!

Written By: Ben Clark - Date published: 7:25 am, December 2nd, 2016 - 21 comments

Judith Collins is letting organised criminals off the hook as she insists the Police make burglary a priority.

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!