Ardern promised transformation, mainly on poverty/ inequality, and climate action but has delivered next to nothing. Sure the Zero Carbon Act has been passed but nothing has changed in terms of our rising emissions. The only thing we will get is a report ...
Polls consistently show the Nats are unlikely to get much more that 30% but Judith Collins says she won't step down despite her previous statement saying that any Nat leader who can't get the Nats 0ver 35% should quit. Her excuse? She said she made the ...
Surely it's not too late to replace Crusher with Dr Shane (I'll tell you what - Maoris can go to Harvard you know)?
Todd Muller describes the guilt/concern he felt on waking up as National leader, knowing he was leading a party with an over-riding concern for money and power and no moral values: "It started with an intense prickling sensation in my head, followed by ...
Steve Braunias had the best analysis in The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/22/first-tv-debate-jacinda-ardern-judith-collins-avoids-being-horror-show His accurate zinger on Jacinda was that she "was as tranquil as a lake and just as ...
I think you need to update this story. There is a third more significant snafu and unlike the second howler of only $88m, it is almost equal to their first $4b howler. Stuff, whose political reporters give the impression of being paid-up members of the ...
Why not let him take over before the election? Crusher is completely unanimated and looks like she wishes she was somewhere else. I was impressed by Reti on Q&A a while back when he took a far more reasoned approach to dealing with Covid than his party ...
Given the extra time until the vote and Miss Collins' abysmal performance to date, I'm opening a book on National having a new leader by then. Any takers?
Judith Collins on politics in another time when Nats in control: “It’s not turn-sies time.”
According to Pattrick Smellie on BusinessDesk, on the Reid Research poll, not one National MP would get into parliament, including Paola Goldsmith. Can someone explain then why would Goldsmith cede Epsom to ACT, especially given if ACT gets ~3% of the vote...
Judith Collins increases the huge trust gap between her and Jacinda as revealed in the Reid Research poll when she was caught out with her porky that no prisoners escaped when she was Corrections Minister: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/...
If you had any doubts about how Jacinda would perform against Crusher - or the upcoming election result - take a look at the highly anticipated first clash in Question Time, where Jacinda crushes Collins like a Canterbury prop taking on a half back. https...
Keep in mind Bob Hawke's comment, which was reprised when the Andrew Little suddenly stepped down to open the way for Jacinda, that the best time to be appointed leader of a party is six weeks before an election. That's what happened to Hawke when he won ...
This from Pattrick Smellie on Businessdesk: Parliamentary records show Boag and Walker have had dealings in the promotion of legislation on behalf of at least one client of Boag's. In August last year, NZ First MP Tracey Martin accused Walker in Parliament...
Surely Epsom is in the hands of Labour voters. There were 7067 votes for Labour's David Parker in Epsom in 2017. If those 7000 hold their noses and cast their constituency vote for National, then added to the 10,986 National voters who could not stomach ...
Five words in your treatise says it all "Labour appeared incoherent on Brexit".
You state there is national interest associated with Fontera an go on : “But the question of how this national interest should be guided and protected is clearly not being grasped by this government.” That looks to me like pointing the bone at the ...
It is grossly rich to blame the government for Fonterra’s problems when the company has scored own after own goal - Sanlu, Beinggate, the rejection by the farmer owners of a new structure that could have provided necessary capital, Brazil, Venezuela, the ...
... question is, what about Winston's weasel words about "irresponsible capitalism" when...
PM unveils new strategy for achieving that elusive surplus.
Saying the continued slide in Labour's vote is down to KDC is pure scapegoating by a left that can't explain why it's no longer relevant, even to it's core constituency. It appears to me that, unlike the NP's Epsom voters, its either don't understand MMP, ...
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