Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 10:55 am, September 3rd, 2017 - 50 comments
Categories: Dirty Politics, election 2017, winston peters
Tags: #ChangeTheGovt, come at the king, dirty politics, king maker
National deciding to go after Winston Peters was a high risk strategy, and it has backfired on them – Heather du Plessis-Allan: Campaign just got uglier The week started with the hit job on Winston Peters. There's nothing as ugly in politics as a takedown …
Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 6:36 am, September 1st, 2017 - 6 comments
Categories: bill english, humour
Tags: 2017 election debate, burn, laila harre
The best debate zinger didn't come from anyone on the stage. In response to claims made by Mr Billshit when defending his 2040 target to cleanup our rivers – https://twitter.com/lailaharre/status/903162157285597184
Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 8:29 am, August 25th, 2017 - 27 comments
Categories: act, national/act government
Tags: act, coalition of chaos, desperate, nine long years
A couple of weeks ago ACT attacked National's boot camp policy, comparing the Nats to criminals. Today they're at it again – Seymour responds to Prime Minister Has Bill English spent any time at all with voters recently? Because what I hear from angry …
Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 9:48 am, August 24th, 2017 - 14 comments
Categories: bill english, national, poverty
Tags: #ChangeTheGovt, brighter future, nine long years, poverty, PREFU
After nine long years the election is forcing National to acknowledge the poverty in NZ. Bill English didn't have any ideas on raisng incomes – but is promising to throw money at what Nats think are good ideas – bootcamps and "social investment" (targeting…
Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 8:40 am, August 19th, 2017 - 10 comments
Categories: accountability, afghanistan, bill english
Tags: bill english, hit and run, NZ SAS, operation burnham, vile spin
As expected – Government faces legal action over Afghan civilian deaths The Kiwi lawyers representing Afghan villagers at the centre of claims New Zealand SAS troops killed civilians in 2010 have filed proceedings against the Government in the Wellington …
Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 9:33 am, August 14th, 2017 - 10 comments
Categories: act, useless
Tags: #IfItWasLabour, act, chaos, coalition blues, not a real party
ACT is so desperate for some publicity that – Act's David Seymour calls out National's law and order policy Act leader David Seymour has launched an attack on National over its law and order policy and over a claim by National campaign chairman Steven …
Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 8:39 am, August 10th, 2017 - 16 comments
Categories: national, racism
Tags: housing crisis, paul goldsmith, racism
Lots of big stuff going on at the moment, but other stories are significant too. The extent of the coverage of this blunder will be worrying the Nats – National's Paul Goldsmith accused of blaming Indians for housing crisis National Party MP Paul Goldsmith…
Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 6:45 am, August 7th, 2017 - 31 comments
Categories: election 2017, peter dunne
Tags: dirty deals, muppets, not a real party, Peter Dunne
"Prime Minister Bill English is asking National voters in Ohariu to support National with their Party vote and Peter Dunne with their Electorate vote as this year's General Election." https://twitter.com/bootstheory/status/893939921442013184 https://…
Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 6:29 am, August 7th, 2017 - 126 comments
Categories: accountability, paula bennett
Tags: allegations, paula bennett, WINZ
Update May 3 2018: Dirty Politics operative Matthew Hooton is desperately searching The Standard looking for some kind of false equivalence with the filthy lies about Clarke Gayford. As you will this post contains nothing that was not being publicly …
Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 8:25 am, August 6th, 2017 - 83 comments
Categories: jacinda ardern, paula bennett, the praiseworthy and the pitiful
Tags: jacinda ardern, nasty nats, paula bennett, spot the difference
Back in May the Nats chose Nikki Kaye as their vehicle to attack Jacinda Ardern. It didn't work so well – Patrick Gower: National's attacks on Jacinda Ardern look desperate, and – National's attack on Labour's deputy suggests concerns more than skin deep. …
Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 9:59 am, August 4th, 2017 - 36 comments
Categories: health, national, useless
Tags: brighter future, disgrace, johnathan coleman
The Health system is riddled with crises and useless Minister Jonathan Coleman is in all kinds of shit. Starting with – Treasury found Minister of Health's mental health strategy not 'coherent' two months before Budget An "incredibly damning" Treasury …
Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 1:10 pm, August 2nd, 2017 - 58 comments
Categories: health, national
Tags: conflict of interest, Lifeline, suicide
We have the highest rate of youth suicide in the "developed" world. The Nats just cut the funding to Lifeline – Government axes $800,000 Lifeline contract In March this year, the Ministry of Health axed a decade-long $800,000 contract for Lifeline to …
Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 10:04 am, August 1st, 2017 - 10 comments
Categories: act, election 2017
Tags: act, David Seymour, dirty deals, election 2017, epsom, not a real party
https://twitter.com/ArchieBuissink/status/891439539452911616 The Epsom branch of the National Party.
Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 12:37 pm, July 20th, 2017 - 36 comments
Categories: im/migration, maori party, workers' rights
Tags: #IfItWasLabour, exploitation, immigrants, newshub, slave labour
There's a certain kind of employer that just loves migrant workers – Kiwifruit worker exploitation only the tip of the iceberg, and see 2016 – Uncovered: Exploitation of migrant workers rife in NZ. They'll probably be pretty pleased at this gem from the …
Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 9:11 am, July 20th, 2017 - 27 comments
Categories: class war, education, health, labour, tax
Tags: choices, education, health, labour, policy, priorities, public vs private, tax cuts
Voters have a clear choice this election – tax cuts for the already rich or more spending on social services. There's a good summary by Bernard Hickey on Newsroom – How Labour plans to spend $17bn and stay in surplus The key to Labour's spending plan is …
Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 8:00 am, July 19th, 2017 - 173 comments
Categories: accountability, class war, housing, maori party
Tags: clueless, homeless, homeless crisis, te ururoa flavell
Hapless Te Ururoa Flavell has spent too long in Wellington – Waiariki candidates debate issues on TV But the number one issue for Mr Flavell was homelessness in the wider region. While Mr Flavell said he had "no idea" how homelessness got so bad in the …
Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 10:46 am, July 17th, 2017 - 241 comments
Categories: benefits, class war, law, Metiria Turei, paula bennett
Tags: benefit fraud, law, metiria turei, paula bennet, WINZ
Metiria Turei's admission that she lied to WINZ back in the day was a political gamble. On one hand it could resonate with a big chunk of non-voters – here's a politician that's just like us – has been through what we're going through. On the other hand it…
Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 12:39 pm, July 6th, 2017 - 9 comments
Categories: class war, economy
Tags: choices, mental health, priorities, suicide, surplus
https://twitter.com/rnzbrentedwards/status/882750375631085568 https://twitter.com/rnzbrentedwards/status/882444262305972224 https://twitter.com/rnzbrentedwards/status/881728789280980992 https://twitter.com/nzherald/status/882042033564786688 Without those …
Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 9:41 am, July 4th, 2017 - 122 comments
Categories: crime, law, paula bennett
Tags: allegations, denial, open letter, paula bennett
If you're on Facebook you may have seen something about this already – Paula Bennett threatens legal action over online post A man is being accused of harassing Deputy Prime Minister Paula Bennett after he posted a video online alleging she committed a …
Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 2:56 pm, June 16th, 2017 - 9 comments
Categories: health, national, useless
Tags: economic genius, health, incompetence, johnathan coleman, ministry of health
What a mess – 'This can never happen again': Health minister furious at $38m Budget blunder Cash-strapped District Health Boards are being made to hand back some of their funding, after a Ministry of Health blunder saw some given too much money in the …
Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 6:36 am, June 12th, 2017 - 18 comments
Categories: accountability, afghanistan, Gerry Brownlee, national, war
Tags: gerry brownlee, hit and run, lies
The UN called for an investigation into Operation Burnham – as highlighted by Hager and Stephenson in Hit and Run – United Nations calls on NZ Government to fully investigate Afghan raid. Very inconvenient for the Nats who would rather sweep any dead …
Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 9:36 am, June 10th, 2017 - 141 comments
Categories: the praiseworthy and the pitiful, uk politics
Tags: dickhead, mike hosking
Life, as they say, comes at you fast these days – Mike Hosking: It's May all the way, despite headlines The worst case scenario is they don't have a working majority, which won't happen, but even if it did, let us not forget that prior to the last election…
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