This Election we need to talk About China
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Date published: 11:05 am, September 4th, 2023 - 70 comments
Yes we could do the next five weeks on teeth and taxes, but actually China is pulling us down and our political parties need to make it an election issue.
Open mike 04/09/2023
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 4th, 2023 - 88 comments
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Jeremy Corbyn was not fit to be Prime Minister. But is Starmer?
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Date published: 1:09 am, September 4th, 2023 - 20 comments
It is said that there is a thin line between bravery and stupidity. Posting a link to my blog post which said that Jeremy Corbyn was not fit to be Prime Minister, to the ‘Labour London Left’ WhatsApp group. I will leave it to the reader to decide which one that was.
Open mike 03/09/2023
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 3rd, 2023 - 50 comments
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Labour’s 2023 campaign launch
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Date published: 2:35 pm, September 2nd, 2023 - 54 comments
Video from Labour’s 2023 campaign launch in Auckland.
National’s credibility is on the line
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Date published: 9:30 am, September 2nd, 2023 - 40 comments
When the history of the 2023 New Zealand Aotearoa general election is written and if Labour gets up to win historians will point to the events of this week as the turning point in what has already been a dramatic year in politics. Because I cannot believe how bad National’s tax cut policy release has been researched and structured and how bad its release is going.
Open mike 02/09/2023
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 2nd, 2023 - 16 comments
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Daily review 01/09/2023
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Date published: 5:30 pm, September 1st, 2023 - 22 comments
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CHL’s Tarras Airport Idea is Unbelievably Stupid
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Date published: 2:48 pm, September 1st, 2023 - 21 comments
Queenstown Airport has over three decades generated a radial wealth local effect. The economic and social uplift has been massive. That doesn’t mean there will be similar economic benefits by building another one within just over an hours’ drive of the first one.
Four new taxes and a climate funeral
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Date published: 8:48 am, September 1st, 2023 - 30 comments
National’s announcement of four new taxes to fund tax cuts rely on herculean assumptions that will never be met. And their proposal for climate change will undermine the slow but steady progress the country has been making to meeting its emission reduction goals.
Open mike 01/09/2023
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Date published: 6:00 am, September 1st, 2023 - 43 comments
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Daily review 31/08/2023
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 31st, 2023 - 11 comments
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The report of our death has been grossly exaggerated
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Date published: 12:34 pm, August 31st, 2023 - 44 comments
Now is not the time to give up, now is the time to work harder at winning.
Open mike 31/08/2023
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 31st, 2023 - 37 comments
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Daily review 30/08/2023
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 30th, 2023 - 12 comments
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Labour should not cut spending on climate change
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Date published: 9:06 am, August 30th, 2023 - 22 comments
At a time when the effects of Climate Change are becoming pronounced now is not the time to cut spending on carbon reduction projects.
Open mike 30/08/2023
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 30th, 2023 - 124 comments
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Daily review 29/08/2023
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 29th, 2023 - 12 comments
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New Zealand’s Greatest Economic Threat is Fonterra
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Date published: 7:00 am, August 29th, 2023 - 35 comments
Fonterra represents New Zealand’s largest internal economic threat. And promise.
Open mike 29/08/2023
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 29th, 2023 - 38 comments
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Daily review 28/08/2023
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 28th, 2023 - 11 comments
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Hipkins rules out coalition with Peters
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Date published: 8:18 am, August 28th, 2023 - 27 comments
Yesterday was a good day for Labour. Leader Chris Hipkins started talking about what the party stood for and what its values are while also ruling out a coalition with NZ First.
Open mike 28/08/2023
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 28th, 2023 - 44 comments
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Be afraid be very afraid – the next Government could be really strange
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Date published: 11:57 am, August 27th, 2023 - 55 comments
If there was a change of Government the next Government could potentially be full of fundamentalist Christians, anti vaxers and all sorts of people whose view of Aotearoa is not conventional or reality based.
Open mike 27/08/2023
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 27th, 2023 - 36 comments
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Self-destructive stupidity, New Zealand style
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Date published: 5:51 am, August 27th, 2023 - 25 comments
Belief in capricious gods would explain the perplexing habit of governments with intelligent and informed people to embrace policies which are manifestly an example of self-destructive stupidity. Clever people doing stupid things.
Semour is more like Rimmer than Mandela
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Date published: 8:54 pm, August 26th, 2023 - 17 comments
David Seymour reached more absurd levels of idiocy this week with a suggestion that if he was alive Nelson Mandela would be an Act supporter.
National’s very bad week
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Date published: 9:51 am, August 26th, 2023 - 13 comments
National MP Tim Van Der Molen has been found to have been in contempt of Parliament for aggressive, hostile and threatening behaviour towards Labour MP Shannan Halbert during a select committee hearing.
Foreign Interference
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Date published: 8:59 am, August 26th, 2023 - 4 comments
New Zealand Parliamentarians are certainly facing foreign-funded political interference from China. It’s just not from the official Communist Party-led nation.
Open mike 26/08/2023
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Date published: 6:00 am, August 26th, 2023 - 37 comments
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Daily review 25/08/2023
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Date published: 5:30 pm, August 25th, 2023 - 17 comments
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