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The implications of Winston Peters’ Northland win

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:30 am, April 4th, 2015 - 90 comments

John Armstrong in the Herald and Tracy Watkins in the Dominion Post have both written opinion pieces on the implications of Winston Peters’ win in Northland which reach very similar conclusions.

Planet Key

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:48 pm, April 2nd, 2015 - 24 comments

Turns out that “Planet Key” is not an election advertisement after all.

Is GCSB using increased awareness of mass surveillance to justify mass surveillance?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 1:00 pm, March 31st, 2015 - 21 comments

Denis Tegg has persuaded the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security to inquire whether the GCSB is conducting mass surveillance on the Kafkaesque grounds that the legislation allows this to happen if a party ought reasonably to expect that the communication may be intercepted.

Drill baby drill will not work

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 11:14 am, March 31st, 2015 - 25 comments

Simon Bridges announced yesterday the release of the 2015 block offer. Potentially oil companies could be drilling in deep sea pristine environmental areas off the West Coast where the endangered Maui’s Dolphin lives. He calls for a “mixed balance” of energy generation. But all this means is that he wants the good mixed with the bad.

Leadership and loyalty

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:45 am, March 31st, 2015 - 55 comments

Key ran out on failed candidate Mike Osborne in Northland, just like he ran out on Melissa Lee in Mt Albert.

Bait and switch

Written By: Mike Smith - Date published: 10:58 pm, March 30th, 2015 - 64 comments

Congratulations to Labour for a very clever strategy in the Northland by-election – lulling and gulling John Key into thinking they were going to run a conventional proxy-partyvote campaign, where National would have the upper hand. Key, the rockstar politician, also thought Andrew Little would be on the training wheels. He got that badly wrong; Little’s handling was superb.

Sledging sucks

Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 11:01 am, March 30th, 2015 - 33 comments

Hey, all you folk angry with Aussie cricket team sledging – how do you put up with John Key PM?

Twelve mistakes National made in Northland

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:39 am, March 30th, 2015 - 86 comments

There are many specific reasons why National lost Northland, but arrogance is the thread running through all of them.

Winston takes Northland

Written By: Stephanie Rodgers - Date published: 8:30 pm, March 28th, 2015 - 310 comments

Is anyone else experiencing a bit of political shellshock?

The Northland Buy Election

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:01 pm, March 28th, 2015 - 201 comments

A post to allow for the discussion of the Northland Buy Election result.

The Key magic

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:17 am, March 27th, 2015 - 98 comments

“John Key heckled in Northland” – ouch.

John Key’s Lies Since The 2014 Election

Written By: BLiP - Date published: 9:00 am, March 26th, 2015 - 109 comments

The most egregious feature remains the sheer banality. Its like John Key can’t help himself. Because most National Ltd™ voters really don’t care and because the MSM just accepts the deceit as “one of those things,” he’s been able to get away with it scot-free for more than six years.

Peters for Northland

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:30 am, March 25th, 2015 - 166 comments

Vote Winston (did I say that?) Update: Former Labour Cabinet Minister Colin Moyle thinks the same.

A tale of two no surprises disclosures

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:30 am, March 24th, 2015 - 34 comments

Anne Tolley was told about the prosecution of Beverley Sepuloni under the no surprises policy nearly a month before the news became public. Release of this information makes you wonder why we cannot be told the date that the Government was told about Mike Sabin’s difficulties.

On the flag – lets not have one

Written By: lprent - Date published: 12:01 pm, March 21st, 2015 - 101 comments

I guess that John Key wanted to raise the idea of a flag change to divert attention from his misdeeds and lack of anything positive from his terms in office. I can’t think of any other particular reason for bringing it up. But the referendum appears to lack the option of dumping the flag. Why have it at all?

Northland by election – National gets desperate

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:13 am, March 19th, 2015 - 37 comments

National is obviously deeply afraid of losing the Northland By Election as is clearly shown by the liberal application of pork barrel politics, the misuse of statistics, the use of Ministerial resources to help campaigning and now the bullying of a local group seeking to have a local road improved.

Key admits he’s using our troops as vote-bait

Written By: Stephanie Rodgers - Date published: 11:30 am, March 18th, 2015 - 30 comments

Yesterday the mask slipped and John Key admitted the real reason our deployment to Iraq is only for two years: so he can win an election.

NRT: Who is lying here?

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 8:31 am, March 18th, 2015 - 25 comments

GST wasn’t Key’s only bungle yesterday. I/S at No Right Turn reports…

PM can’t calculate GST

Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 7:24 am, March 18th, 2015 - 66 comments

Gotcha politics is all good sport when the opposition makes a mistake. How about Key’s self-inflicted blunder?

Chutzpah in Northland

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 9:47 am, March 14th, 2015 - 44 comments

Winston Peters has challenged John Key to a debate in Northland.

Catching up with Key

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 8:36 am, March 14th, 2015 - 140 comments

You can only bungle and lie for so long before people get sick of it. Seems like it’s all starting to catch up with Key at last.

Key crosses a bridge too far

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:00 am, March 12th, 2015 - 127 comments

I kid you not but John Key thinks that Dotcom and Hager prevented him from announcing the Northland bridge decaboondoggle. And Sabin is having no effect on the by election campaign.

John Key’s weird “gotcha” moment on ACC

Written By: Stephanie Rodgers - Date published: 5:00 pm, March 10th, 2015 - 41 comments

John Key and his MPs were acting like they’d scored a real hit on Andrew Little in Question Time. The reality is … not so impressive.

Key: I Apologise for Not Being a Man

Written By: te reo putake - Date published: 12:04 pm, March 10th, 2015 - 61 comments

It’s hammer time! Prime Minister John Key apologises for not being a man …

Key withdraws promise to resign

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 12:03 pm, March 10th, 2015 - 102 comments

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National has to win Northland (plus Armstrong’s amazing U-turn)

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 9:27 am, March 8th, 2015 - 153 comments

In which John Key denies the bleeding obvious, and John Armstrong risks whiplash with the speed of his U-turn.

Key’s credibility and the Snowden leaks

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:03 am, March 8th, 2015 - 71 comments

The Sunday Star Times has reported on the set up and reach of the Waihopai Spy Base. Key’s statement that the GCSB does not have the physical capability to conduct mass surveillance appears to be not true.

Nudge Nudge in Northland

Written By: te reo putake - Date published: 11:07 am, March 7th, 2015 - 97 comments

Two interesting changes in the Northland by-election overnight.

National Ltd™ Battling Truth On Two Fronts

Written By: BLiP - Date published: 10:16 am, March 6th, 2015 - 13 comments

The lies and media pap being distributed for public consumption by the boys down at “The Club” are old and worn out now. Politicians, public commentators, and media heads who really think they can get away with this flimsy “rinse and repeat” justification of the indefensible are treated us with contempt.

Is mass surveillance of Kiwis occurring?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:49 am, March 6th, 2015 - 112 comments

The latest Snowden revelations that New Zealand has been collecting bulk data from various Pacific Islands and handing it to the NSA suggests that mass surveillance of New Zealanders is happening, despite promises to the contrary.