By Judith's logic, wouldn't Labour also be justified in having no policies at this point because National would steal them if they were announced? She obviously views the world as some kind of game of electoral chicken.
Mostly in the migrant dorms yes, but community cases are being picked up in Singapore on a daily basis . Further, Changi Airport is a major international hub, so he would have potentially come into contact with travellers from all over the world while in ...
Exactly Sacha. Yes we do want to get our community testing numbers up, and anyone anywhere in the country who develops Covid-19 symptoms should be able to access a test to achieve that. But in reality there's no "spectre" of anything. All of his housemates...
Scaremongering headline currently on nzherald.co.nz "'Get tested immediately': Spectre of community transmission in Queenstown" The story relates to the South Korean traveller who tested positive in South Korea after travelling from Auckland via a 12 hour ...
This morning, Collins told Magic Talk she would not have sacked Iain Lees-Galloway for having an affair. "That's between him and his spouse". She added that when she passed on the information to Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, she did not know herself he ...
No proof they did obviously, but the proposition that Garner decided to ask that question apropros of nothing off his own bat is very hard to believe.
As above, my strong suspicion is that Garner was tipped off in advance about what the answer would be if he happened to ask that question. Stripped of any background context, it was a bizarre question to ask in circumstances where Collins has been leader ...
Watch the whole interview here. - https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/07/nz-election-2020-judith-collins-claims-to-have-received-tip-off-about-labour-minister-passed-to-prime-minister.html The key exchange happens at around the seven minute mark.,...
Five weeks ago, Border Patrol Brownlee was haranguing the government to "get moving" on the Trans-Tasman bubble. Today, Victoria is in lockdown with its highest daily case number ever, and there are outbreaks in NSW as well. Who would trust these clowns? ...
The motley crew comprising the New Conservatives make Colin Craig look normal.
Wriggle room indeed. If I know the average New Zealand swing voter (and I think I do), the one thing they love to hear from the candidate for new prime minister is weaselly semantics designed to obscure the truth from them. Also based on Muller's media ...
Hold on.......the National campaign had been generating momentum before this? Where? With who? The people deserve to know!
This might be a better point of DPF's had the campaign chair for the deputy lead and ex-PRESIDENT OF THE PARTY not directly aided and abetted Hamish.
If it was stolen to order then shouldnt it have included information about the patients' country of origin - you know, the thing Walker was apparently trying to prove?
Not saying you're right, but the sabotage theory would at least explain why Kaye has uncharacteristically been behaving like a lobotomised chimp since becoming deputy leader. In the past I have regarded her reasonably highly amongst the National caucus but...
Great article. Just a clarification on MH's March 19 "reckon" - Although the headline refers to closing the borders this appears to be a sub-editor's error. The body of the column makes no specific mention of border closure. It goes much further than that ...
"Act was calling for the border to be closed in January and February, but it took the Government until March to act." In which alternate universe did that happen, because I'm pretty sure it wasnt the one I have been living in? Is that just a brazen lie?
Check Google Street view. The approach from the Novotel Ellerslie onto the south-bound Southern Motorway is a direct left turn from the far left lane. Nothing complicated at all about it. You don't even need to go around the Greenlane roundabout, the turn-...
Given the mood of the nation you would have to be a special kind of stupid to voluntarily appear on national radio to declare that you've swanned in to the country at level 1 and are refusing to take a test.
@observer - I know, that's why they should shut up and watch, as otherwise everybody mad at the Govt about this lapse will realise that National's policies are far worse.
National should now be sitting back quietly and waiting. If this turns into an outbreak (unlikely but possible) it will undoubtedly be an election game changer, as long as Todd doesn't ruin it by opening his mouth and reminding everyone what a muppet he is...
Even using his one cherry-picked piece of data of "deaths per million" I dont know how he arrives at the conclusion that NZ's performance was mediocre. The current worldwide average is almost 55 deaths per million, NZ's is 4.4 deaths per million. The ...
Who is he working for now, or is he a liar/propogandist for the sheer love of the game?
I fully get why the police/government decided not to impose themselves on the situation as they could have, but really the organisers have to take a long hard look in the mirror as to whether it was worth putting New Zealand lives and all the investment we...
Strong words. So I guess if Labour is re-elected and unemployment doesn't hit 50.1% then that would make Mr Muller a fearmongering liar. But of course, by then it won't matter because he'll be confined to the dustbin of NZ political history anyway.
You're right that they did not categorically state it in no uncertain terms (that would have been an outright lie rather than just spin) but Dr Bloomfield's statements in April that the virus "doesn't infect or affect children and teens in the same way it ...
Just reinforces the point that young children are susceptible and potential spreaders, which is not the messaging that the government was putting across at the time schools and ECE's were reopening at level 3 and not what they'd want in focus as things ...
Interesting to learn this morning that the confirmed case yesterday was a pre-schooler (between 1 and 4 years old). That little tidbit got a bit buried in all the level 2 self-satisfaction.
In one of the pre-lockdown ones he said that we would all feel more confident if John Key was still in charge and I almost chucked my phone out the window.
The audio being slightly out of sync with the video (I'm a rank amateur and couldn't work out how to fix this) makes his words seem more like verbal diarrhea than usual, so I now consider this an artistic choice - haha.
A little lockdown project I put together - Mike Hosking arguing with himself about what New Zealand should be doing about COVID-19 https://youtu.be/RP2S-IzLoWo
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