Desperate stuff Mickey; basing your argument on two pieces of totally insignificant and insubstantial fluff. How about this as an alternative: Labour Party in complete disarray after failing to care for minors at a Labour youth summer camp earlier this ...
Ffloyd This is normal NZF behaviour. The're only interested in themselves and much of what we've seen over this last week is designed to re energise the NZF support base. The Mystery Creek Field Days gave Jones a perfect platform to advance this cause by ...
We harvest about 2% of rain water that falls on NZ. The rest flows away. Its ridiculous to claim that we need all the water "that falls on our country." Why do 'we need it"? What would we do with it? How do you propose harvesting it all? We can barely ...
Better get in there Cleangreen and execute some citizen arrests. I wouldn't rely on any body else or any of the normal agencies to do it, because they won't. Its over to you and your bunch of merry men to protect the realm from these dastardly criminals.
AOB The actual claims are not new; agreed. There is a change in who the defendants are however. As I stated - its the current politics surrounding this issue and the timing that interests me along with their potential significance. These are issues are ...
The politics of this interest me. Peters chooses to lodge these new claims with the high court just as the pm is about to take maternity leave and he is about to become the acting pm. At the very least he puts Ardern on the defensive and she is subject to ...
I think that there are too many variables in this by-election (as in all by-elections) to draw any meaningful conclusions at all about future nation wide voter behaviour. Several of these variables have been mentioned already. A couple that I don't think ...
You must be 'stunningly" blind Incognito; or a "stunningly" supreme fantasist.
aspasia That swing maybe the case - but look more closely at the details; they're mainly from Green voters (who were voting tactically) and NZ First. Not from National. The Nats percentage of the vote has hardly changed from the general election. The other...
I suspect Bolger is on some sort of vanity trip. Or perhaps its a redemption trip.
Whats interesting about this poll and other recent polls is the divergence between the leader's poll rating and their respective party's rating. Typically in polls if the leaders poll rating is high, then that party's poll rating also goes up. Similarly ...
mpledger Mallard had 'done something wrong' (slagging National off to the media for a sexist comment no one else heard). National 'had a 'right to be aggrieved' - they were portrayed by mallard in speaking to the media negatively and unfairly and in a ...
No I don't agree with Farrar's opinion re the current deaths in palestine. I also didn't agree with Jones views on the same show on Labour's lack of preparedness when coming into govenment. But I do agree with their right to express their opinions; even ...
Go and have a nice cup of tea then if its all too much for you.. I listened too, and Allie Jones, representing the red team, was just as strong in presenting her point of view. Its called debate where you contest ideas. This is what happens in a democracy....
The Standard also allows "extreme" commentators from the left 'free reign'. Is that 'despicable' to? Or are you trying to "defend the indefensible"?
In Vino So what. I presume you believe in free speech; in which case Franks is entitled to his point of view, even if you disagree with it.
Morrisey - If this is true, its totally offset by RNZ giving John Campbell 2 hrs every night to push a left wing agenda.
Who for example?
Maybe Mallard should also have his pay cut; in his case for incompetent performance as speaker. A critical element of his job is to be neutral - his neutrality has been absent recently (although today in the house he was a lot more sympathetic to National ...
You're spinning it Ed. Young suggested that when Ardern used the phrase 'dirty politics', Ardern was deliberately sending a dog whistle to conspiracy theorists on the left (like you) to assume it was the Nats who were responsible for the Gayford rumours ...
Well, I don't know the answer to that question Ed. Why don't you put us out of our suspense and tell us.
Prove it then Darien. You've been around a while - you say; you're street smart and know how these things work therefore. So put up or shut up.
You know what, I think NZ First is probably responsible for spreading the rumours about Gayford. It suits the conspiracy narratives that they love to believe in. This allows that idiot Peters to darkly remind us in melodramatic tones that this is a 'dark ...
Not complaining Draco Just observing. And just wondering if Ardern and company are avoiding addressing the issue of coal production and use in their climate change policy 'nuclear moment' because of their historical and sentimental links to that industry. ...
Thanks Jenny So; so much for Ardern's 'nuclear moment'; more like expediency and hollow words wins the day - again. I don't recall Lange equivocating in this way when he announced a true 'nuclear moment'. Then, there was no equivocation - it was sticking ...
Can someone tell me why the government hasn't treated the coal industry in the same way that it's treated the oil and gas industry? After all the coal industry is a greater contributor to climate warming than oil and gas.
At this stage of the electoral cycle you'd expect labour to be souring in the polls; especially considering the Ardern effect (although I note that more of the star dust has fallen from her with her poll ratings also falling). This all has to be a concern ...
CG That's a bit extreme isn't it? To jail the NZ media (whoever that is?). On what grounds? In case you didn't realise it. The liberal left puts the freedom of the press on a pedestal as a fundamental democratic value. Thats even when parts of the press ...
Mb As do dozens of Labour/NZ First supporting journalists.
PS No A column in Politik earlier today on this matter is my source for my post.
I note that NZ is one of the few western nations to so far fail to condemn the Russians for their assassination attacks in the UK. NZ is silent on the matter. Is this because Peter's is a Russian apologist and Arden's afraid to do the right thing and ...
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