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#Horseshoegate – have you seen these alleged horse shoe throwers?

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 11:30 am, November 28th, 2016 - 13 comments

Radio Tarana has offered a reward for information regarding the Mt Roskill horse shoe thrower.

America’s broken democratic system

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:20 am, November 27th, 2016 - 92 comments

Through partisan control of the electoral system and continuing attempts to suppress votes America’s electoral system is in clear need of an overhaul.

National plans to sell Housing Corp home Key grew up in

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:30 am, November 25th, 2016 - 39 comments

John Key, the state house tenant turned good who has relied heavily on his humble upbringing is overseeing the sale of the state house he grew up in.

Has Key abandoned Parmar in the Mt Roskill by election?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:49 am, November 23rd, 2016 - 50 comments

As National’s Mt Roskill by election campaign starts to implode John Key’s absence is becoming very noticeable.

Brownlee should stop vilifying scientists

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:53 am, November 22nd, 2016 - 21 comments

Gerry Brownlee has attacked a public servant firstly for not approached the Government for increased Geonet monitoring and then for raising the issue but not telling him personally.

Brownlee bullies GNS staff

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:15 am, November 21st, 2016 - 49 comments

Gerry Brownlee has chosen to respond to the cautious words of a public servant by publicly attacking him.

National tries to have it both ways

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:31 am, November 19th, 2016 - 51 comments

Despite the Kaikoura earthquakes, the damage to the Capital and the fact the EQC fund is now in deficit, the Government is still holding out the possibility of tax cuts in election year.

Beware of Spin Doctors and Spin Professors

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:01 am, November 13th, 2016 - 97 comments

On the same day that the pollsters in the world’s most advanced democracy were shown to have got things terribly wrong a Professor in New Zealand says that National will win next year because of polling data.

Fear and loathing in Mt Roskill

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 2:17 pm, November 12th, 2016 - 69 comments

Members of the National Party in Mount Roskill are trying to make a story out of Michael Wood after he responded directly to public insults made against his wife.

The media double standard

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:15 am, November 9th, 2016 - 126 comments

Andrea Vance has attacked Labour’s Ready to Work policy and claimed that the policy does not add up, despite being told how the figures had been arrived at.

Go home Roy Morgan, you’re drunk

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:53 am, November 5th, 2016 - 149 comments

The latest Roy Morgan poll result and it is evidence that the polling model needs to be reviewed.

Kiwibank is being privatised by stealth

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:37 am, November 2nd, 2016 - 31 comments

Kiwibank is selling 47% of its shareholding to the New Zealand Super Fund and to the Accident Compensation Corporation. The Government gets a cheque for $200 million which will improve the appearance of its books. Financial sleight of hand?

Darren Watson 2 John Key 0

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:03 am, October 21st, 2016 - 140 comments

The Court of Appeal has ruled that Darren Watson’s Planet Key song should not have been banned during the 2014 election campaign.

I see a poverty of ideas and a poverty of Government responsibility

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:35 am, October 13th, 2016 - 210 comments

Judith Collins yesterday said that child poverty is the fault of parents and not the fault of her Government.

Government announces watered down version of Labour’s Kiwibuild policy

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:04 am, October 12th, 2016 - 82 comments

National is borrowing another Labour-Green policy and has announced a lite version of Labour’s Kiwibuild policy.

The crime spike

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:30 am, October 12th, 2016 - 24 comments

Who would have thought that a surge in homelessness would result in a spike in crime, and that a dramatic increase in the number of people with no or compromised housing situations would cause an increase in burglaries, robberies and assaults.

Utopians and pragmatists

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 11:43 am, October 10th, 2016 - 32 comments

Nick Leggett places himself in the “pragmatic” part of the Labour Party spectrum and derides others as being “utopian” and not interested in winning. But given the recent election result for the Mayoralty is he right?

The main risk to New Zealand according to John Key

Written By: advantage - Date published: 9:15 am, October 6th, 2016 - 59 comments

John Key is pretty good at providing media commentary on what problems New Zealand faces. But is he any good at addressing those problems?

Donald Trump has a really big tax write off

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:06 am, October 3rd, 2016 - 166 comments

Donald Trump’s reluctance to release his tax returns has now been explained. He has possibly not paid tax for decades.

The Propaganda War

Written By: Bill - Date published: 10:38 am, October 2nd, 2016 - 89 comments

Under the rubble of lies…

He isn’t a racist because his ex wife is from Singapore

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:08 am, September 30th, 2016 - 139 comments

Don Brash and a group of other predominately privileged white males are complaining that Maori may also be receiving some privilege.

Ombudsman to investigate John Key’s dirty politics communications

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:42 am, September 27th, 2016 - 91 comments

The Ombudsman is to investigate John Key’s failure to disclose communications with David Farrar and Cameron Slater

Dear Herald you can do better than Rodney Hide

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:15 am, September 25th, 2016 - 248 comments

Rodney Hide continues to provide extreme analysis free right wing ramblings courtesy of the Herald. Is it time for them to reintroduce a left wing columnist?

A settlement proposal for Jordan Williams and Colin Craig

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:52 am, September 24th, 2016 - 42 comments

A suggested settlement proposal to resolve the Williams v Craig case which may achieve some good.

Stand Up for Housing: Protest today in Aotea Square

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:38 pm, September 23rd, 2016 - 45 comments

Young people, union members, and other Aucklanders will meet in Aotea Square today to make some noise about the devastating Auckland housing crisis. Stand Up Youth Union Movement and Unions Auckland are hosting the Monopoly-themed event, which will highlight the damaging effects of the crisis and call on local and central government to do a lot more to fix the housing market.

Paula Bennett improves supply of housing, or does she?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 4:02 pm, September 19th, 2016 - 74 comments

National’s latest plan to do something about the housing crisis is to buy a Motel and kick families who stay there out on the street.

The trouble with polls

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 2:43 pm, September 13th, 2016 - 186 comments

Labour has released its latest UMR polling which shows a dramatically different result to that of the latest Colmar Brunton poll.

New Zealand is a socialist nirvana *

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:45 am, September 13th, 2016 - 65 comments

* at least according to David Seymour.

The homeless crisis is getting worse

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:46 am, September 12th, 2016 - 139 comments

Figures provided by the Government to Labour suggest that providing accommodation for families with chronic housing needs is taking much longer than it did six months ago. But Paula Bennett has replied by suggesting that the figures do not reflect reality.

The manipulation of burglary statics

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:52 am, September 11th, 2016 - 36 comments

Reporter Eugene Bingham who broke the story on how Papakura police were doctoring crime statistics by recoding burglaries as other offences two years ago has written about how his attempts to get to the truth of the matter has effectively been thwarted by the police.