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Everyone applauds Labour’s homelessness plan … except National

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:56 am, May 5th, 2018 - 133 comments

Labour’s announcement of $100 million spending on homelessness has attracted praise from everyone, except National.

So there was sewage leaking into Middlemore hospital’s walls

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:21 am, May 4th, 2018 - 87 comments

In further horror news about our health system the leaks of sewage into the walls of Middlemore Hospital has been confirmed and its discovery occurred in 2010. And in 2015 the chair of cash strapped Canterbury DHB signed a Ministry of Health drafted letter saying it did not need further funding despite an urgent need for further funds.

The real conspiracy facing New Zealand

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:00 am, May 3rd, 2018 - 55 comments

Rhys Darby has discovered the real conspiracy facing New Zealand by judicious use of the Internet. And Clarke Gayford does not feature.

Trumping Obama?

Written By: Bill - Date published: 8:00 am, May 3rd, 2018 - 9 comments

A post on big boy’s scouting medals.

National wants to add to Auckland’s gridlock

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 4:11 pm, May 2nd, 2018 - 16 comments

National has promised to overturn Auckland’s Regional Fuel Tax. But has no proposal for how the funding will be replaced.

Police scotches dirty politics rumours about Clarke Gayford

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:30 am, May 2nd, 2018 - 209 comments

The police have publicly scotched rumours that have been circulating about Clarke Gayford by saying that Gayford is not and has not been the subject of any police inquiry and has not been charged in relation to any matter.

Doofus of the week – April 28, 2018

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:30 am, April 28th, 2018 - 23 comments

This week’s winner is a National MP who has perfected the ability of cutting and pasteing but has no idea about the dark art of social media.

Guest Post: How many working groups did the last National Government create?

Written By: Guest post - Date published: 7:50 am, April 26th, 2018 - 38 comments

A Guest Post from Luke C where he analyses National’s creation of working groups in the last Goverment and comes up with a surprising conclusion.

Freedom of Speech and Expression

Written By: Bill - Date published: 10:14 am, April 24th, 2018 - 47 comments

Bollocks and bullshit lands on shits and giggles.

Bottom feeding fish

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:35 am, April 24th, 2018 - 99 comments

Yesterday the Herald said something stupid about Clarke Gayford, reported his response and then reported at how the country was divided by the article.

Jacinda Ardern is just like Donald Trump

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:15 am, April 22nd, 2018 - 77 comments

In a gross example of click bait journalism a senior political commentator at a major media outlet has claimed that Jacinda Ardern and Donald Trump are similar.

Doofus of the Week – April 20, 2018

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:07 am, April 21st, 2018 - 73 comments

Doofus of the week this week goes to a television personality who is upset that his sexist comment that employers should be allowed to know what their female employees breedings plans are was taken out of context.

The right to free speech

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:05 am, April 20th, 2018 - 105 comments

This week has seen a number of examples where right wing and religious men have said stupid things and then had their statements defended on the basis that free speech should be protected.

The Daily Show on Sean Hannity

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 5:18 pm, April 19th, 2018 - 15 comments

Trevor Noah on the Daily Show gives the most concise and funny description of Sean Hannity’s problems concerning Donald Trump’s lawyer’s issues.

Bullshit upon Bullshit.

Written By: Bill - Date published: 9:31 am, April 18th, 2018 - 34 comments

Doctors being intimidated.

The political honeymoon that keeps on ending

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:01 am, April 18th, 2018 - 43 comments

Media pundits are claiming on the evidence offered by one poll that the Government’s political honeymoon is over. But the same claim was made four months ago.

Dear Judith burning Oil and Gas is the worst thing for the climate

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:45 am, April 14th, 2018 - 73 comments

National now seems to adopt the position that climate change is real and has to be addressed. But it is refusing to accept that to address the problem New Zealand is going to have to give up its reliance on oil and gas.

Homeless families are living in cars … and tents

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:00 am, April 13th, 2018 - 84 comments

Remember how early on during his reign as National leader John Key talked about the underclass and how they were a blight on New Zealand society? Well over the past year WINZ has been giving grants to homeless families to live in tents.

Is New Zealand really as ‘racist as fuck’?

Written By: koreropono - Date published: 1:35 pm, April 12th, 2018 - 85 comments

I am inclined to believe that there are at least some New Zealanders who are as “racist as fuck”.

Mike Hosking reckons: Minimum wage increase will be terrible for everyone

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:55 am, April 9th, 2018 - 159 comments

Mike Hosking reckons that an increase in the minimum wage will increase housing unaffordability and cause job losses and business closures.

Regrets, John Key’s had a few *

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:00 am, April 6th, 2018 - 43 comments

or more accurately one. A failed vanity flag referendum.

National’s strong economic management …

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:00 am, April 6th, 2018 - 47 comments

Between the crisis facing Middlemore Hospital’s buildings and the farce surrounding the cost of repairs of repairs of the Canterbury rebuild, National’s claim that it is a party of strong economic management looks at least misguided.

This is extremely dangerous to our democracy

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 9:00 am, April 3rd, 2018 - 29 comments

Make of this what you will.

Evidence-based foreign policy

Written By: Mike Smith - Date published: 6:07 pm, April 2nd, 2018 - 99 comments

In the second stage of a false flag attack, facts go out the window and the sole issue becomes “are you for us or against us.” Our media and National Party politicians are well into this stage in the Skripal affair. But as questions mount and skeptics proliferate from all sides, Jacinda Ardern and Winston Peters may well be wiser than media advisers by not following blindly the western herd. 26 countries is not the whole world. Update: Porton Down unable to establish Novichok of Russian origin.

The manufacturing of a narrative

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 1:27 pm, March 31st, 2018 - 606 comments

The past week has seen the Herald focus on issues concerning Clare Curran to the almost exclusion of anything else, including the perilous state of our Health system and Kim Dotcom’s successful appeal against the last Government’s breach of his rights of privacy.