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Rogue MP publicly disagrees with leader – party in disarray!
Written By: - Date published: 7:42 am, February 9th, 2017 - 52 comments
With these deep divisions exposed the party is clearly in total disarray.
Low bar diplomacy
Written By: - Date published: 1:29 pm, February 7th, 2017 - 23 comments
So apparently the PM managed to get through a 15 minute call without “upsetting” Trump. That’s where we set the bar these days.
The SOE sell down three years on
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, February 7th, 2017 - 78 comments
Some time in the next 12 months it is likely that the forgone dividend payments and loss in share value from the Power Company shares and Air NZ share sale will be greater than the amount received, only three years after the sale.
English – “8 months to answer Labour’s challenge”
Written By: - Date published: 7:02 am, February 7th, 2017 - 21 comments
Anonymous Herald editorial: “Bill English has 8 months to answer Labour’s challenge”.
“Middle East leftovers”
Written By: - Date published: 9:19 am, February 3rd, 2017 - 31 comments
Compassionate conservatism in action. No wonder English was so tame in his criticism of Trump’s Muslim ban.
Bill’s big policy flop
Written By: - Date published: 4:38 pm, February 2nd, 2017 - 26 comments
Fair to say that Bill English’s “big” policy announcement today was a total flop.
English condemned
Written By: - Date published: 8:58 am, February 1st, 2017 - 25 comments
Interim PM Bill English is getting a hammering for his “weak and indecisive” response to Trump’s Muslim ban.
A message to Bill English
Written By: - Date published: 8:21 am, February 1st, 2017 - 6 comments
A touching cartoon message to Bill English on why he should increase New Zealand’s refugee intake.
A PM but not a leader
Written By: - Date published: 8:35 am, January 31st, 2017 - 35 comments
Bill English has failed his first test of real leadership. Compare and contrast, English and Little’s responses to the Muslim ban.
Update: The image is Emmerson’s take in The Herald.
Will English speak up on Trump’s ban?
Written By: - Date published: 6:50 am, January 30th, 2017 - 133 comments
World leaders are condemning Trump’s Muslim ban. What does the PM of our country have to say on the matter?
Peter Thiel’s citizenship and consequent questions of corruption
Written By: - Date published: 6:28 pm, January 28th, 2017 - 52 comments
Journos have been looking at how Peter Thiel gained citizenship. Not because he shouldn’t have been made a citizen. But it was done without any public notice using a special section of the immigration act. That reeks of a corruption route by a minister or officials. Reasons need to be made public for this and other decisions done this way.
Bill English thinks he was pro Springbok tour
Written By: - Date published: 8:51 am, January 20th, 2017 - 102 comments
Bill English says that he was probably for the 1981 Springbok tour of New Zealand although has hinted that he has since changed his mind.
Dodgy foreign trusts – will English take action?
Written By: - Date published: 9:43 am, January 19th, 2017 - 24 comments
Matt Nippert continued his excellent work on foreign trusts yesterday in The Herald. Will Bill English clean up the mess that John Key was determined to ignore?
English’s three strikes
Written By: - Date published: 1:23 pm, January 16th, 2017 - 32 comments
The Herald’s John Roughan is not impressed with Bill English so far. And today English put his foot in it again.
English in England
Written By: - Date published: 8:48 am, January 15th, 2017 - 48 comments
The usual media suspects are digging pretty deep to try and find anything supportive to say about English’s UK visit. English himself sounds like he has been put in his place.
Spinning ‘social investment’
Written By: - Date published: 8:32 am, January 14th, 2017 - 54 comments
Bill English has co-opted the old term “social investment” to replace another old term “targeted welfare”. Simon Wilson (writing at The Spinoff) has bought into the spin and written a deeply confused piece about it.
Refreshing honesty from English
Written By: - Date published: 12:44 pm, January 13th, 2017 - 58 comments
English – “One of New Zealand’s benefits is because we’re a long way away and fairly small we don’t attract too much attention.” Nice contrast to the usual Nat hysterical style. I guess there’s no need for all that domestic spying apparatus then?
The end of ‘governing from the centre’?
Written By: - Date published: 3:33 pm, January 10th, 2017 - 124 comments
And a return to the politics of division by Blinglish…
Refining that dog whistle
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, January 10th, 2017 - 71 comments
Bill English has used a proposal for timing of his Waitangi speech to wrongly claim that he is being silenced. And most of the media bought it.
English won’t attend Waitangi Day
Written By: - Date published: 9:07 am, January 9th, 2017 - 191 comments
I don’t think it does a PM any harm to shut up and listen for a change instead of talking, but this does not seem to be possible for the Nats.
Rudman on Nats’ total housing fail
Written By: - Date published: 10:24 am, December 21st, 2016 - 196 comments
Rudman: “The Prime Minister, in his role in charge of Housing New Zealand, and Smith have spectacularly failed to solve Auckland’s housing crisis over several years.”
The great Cabinet reshuffle
Written By: - Date published: 3:12 pm, December 18th, 2016 - 94 comments
Bill English has announced his cabinet reshuffle.
Denial in Politics
Written By: - Date published: 9:26 pm, December 17th, 2016 - 33 comments
There’s a lot of it around. The Democrats and their media and spook allies are in a complete lather over Putin’s supposed personal influence in the US election. Confident of victory and its spoils up till midday on election day, the Clinton team are incapable of assessing just what a debacle of a campaign they ran, still less what they need to do now. Lessons abound.
English honeymoon over already
Written By: - Date published: 7:37 am, December 16th, 2016 - 198 comments
The English honeymoon came to an abrupt end yesterday as the new PM copped an earful in Kaikoura. And bad goes to worse as Brownlee loses his rag (again). Key would have handled it better.
Andrew Little: Middle New Zealand needs answers from English
Written By: - Date published: 12:48 pm, December 13th, 2016 - 205 comments
Andrew Little talks about what a Bill English leadership may look like. John Key promised to lift up the underclass, to fix the housing crisis, and to close the wage gap with Australia but failed. Will English be the same?
Govt response to poverty report will tell us all we need to know about Bill English
Written By: - Date published: 8:04 am, December 13th, 2016 - 264 comments
The 2016 Child Poverty Monitor Technical Report is out today. As usual it paints a bleak picture. What will Bill English’s government do about poverty – evasions, words, or actions? Update: Bill fails.
Out with the old – in with the old
Written By: - Date published: 10:18 am, December 12th, 2016 - 110 comments
Bye John, out with the old. And in with the old. Shortly the Nats will anoint the chosen one, Bill English. A pre-failed leader. Mr 21%. The greedy double dipper. The boring, conservative choice for a boring conservative party.
Nats continue to have a quid each way on tax cuts
Written By: - Date published: 11:39 am, December 11th, 2016 - 15 comments
Tax cuts – the Nats are continuing to rule them both in and out for the election. Incoherence or deliberate strategy? Either way – Key got away with this kind of bullshit for 8 long years – are we going to let it continue?
Bill English to be elected as National Leader
Written By: - 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: - Date published: 1:59 pm, December 8th, 2016 - 162 comments
Judith Collins has withdrawn from the leadership race and pledged support for Bill English.
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