Indeed. Key is in a real bind now. Having not sacked Collins when her very real - not just a perception - conflict of interest was revealed, he is now lumbered with her as an albatross around his neck all the way to the election, just as Clark was with ...
What’s a bit of inter-spouse biffo got to do with anything ... the National Party™ are such a bunch of good fellows ... Good pun, BLiP!
Bennett will be loving this. One more aspirant to succeed Key bites the dust. Only Joyce to go and the leadership is all hers.
Bring on the John Banks trial. That should be the last straw for ridding ourselves of these corrupt, cronyist, venal plutocrats.
...and a government that promotes transparency both domestically and internationally... Guess that means she's finally going to tell us the name and position of the "unnamed Chinese border official"?
If only Williamson had just had a dinner with a senior Chinese border official while his families' company was trying to get its product into China
Williamson: However, it is clear that a perception of my trying to influence the outcome has been created and for this reason I have tendered my resignation as a minister today. As for Judith Collins, there is more than just a perception, but she still ...
Wonder if the Nats will now return to Liu the $22,000 he bought this extraordinary level of Ministerial corruption support with.
Of course all that means is someone in the PM’s office will be let go for not informing the PM. Hopefully when they go they will take with them the evidence proving when the PM was actually informed.
Williamson did have a lot to do with the slow demise of Bill English as National Party leader, so it wouldn't surprise me if Slater's threats are far from idle. Let the war begin.
He gets his gumboot selected as the next MP... You mean he gets his cigarette butt selected as the next MP...
NZ Herald’s Jared Savage’s OIA email to the Police over Williamson’s involvement is dated 4 April. Assistant Commissioner Craig Tweedie’s reply to Savage’s OIA request is dated 24 April. I would have thought that under the “no surprises” protocol Key’s ...
Wondering what safe electorate the Nats will select a talented, young former meth dealer in?
Shoosh! Don't give them any ideas. The Nats' electorate selections are almost completed but they could yet give Glenn Inwood a high list position.
In the meantime that hoary old line that a gumboot could get elected in Clutha-Southland if it was a National gumboot should be revisited on the basis that a gumboot would have a more benign public safety record. Plenty of campaign fodder here. Has a ...
So now users will only be able to get their drugs through their local meth dealer. And guess what he or she will sell them when stockpiles of the formerly legal highs run low.
Will labour and it members finally accept the reforms of the 80s as being correct? Invite sir roger back home Strip him of his knighthood, as a traitor to the working class that Labour was founded on, would be my hope. Send a signal that they have finally...
Apparently $30,000 of public funds were spent on her trip to China. Just because none of that was expended on the dinner itself doesn't suddenly make the dinner private. And if the dinner were private, why was a senior Chinese border control official ...
A speech on anti-corruption - that's about as ironic as it can get!
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Yeah, check out this speech from Kevin Hague yesterday re Ryall and the Southern DHB fraud allegations: http://www.inthehouse.co.nz/video/32151
You beat me to it, ianmac. It beggars belief that she, or her staff, didn't record such a meeting in her diary. This is yet another lie from a Minister who is becoming notorious for lying.
Green candidates apply to go on the ranked list only if they want to be MPs. Other candidates stand in electorates as a platform to maximise the Green party vote in their electorate, but do not aspire to be MPs so do not go on the ranked list. When the ...
Metiria Turei, David Clendon, Denise Roche, Marama Davidson & Jack MacDonald all identify as Maori. That's 5 of the top 20 on the draft list.
+1 Agreed, George. I support Shaw having a high position on that basis, even though I am generally considered to be on the left within the Greens.
Slater will be fair spewing that he missed out on the Fenton story.
Is it technically practicable to identify the IP address that targets a botnet to commence a DDoS attack? Even if so, I wouldn't imagine this being at the top of the police's cybercrime priorities.
Just got emailed a media release from Metiria (doesn't appear to be online yet) indicating that her speech on Sunday will also relate to education, but will focus on the inequality kids suffer so teachers can focus on what they do best – educate our kids.
NaPSS, Do you envision any scenario under which we transition from fossil fuel dependency to renewable energy sources before the cost of extracting fossil fuels makes it uneconomic to continue to do so and/or before the emissions from burning it cause the ...
No, this policy will strengthen National’s announced election strategy of demonising the Green Party, and cost the Green Party votes. That strategy worked a treat the last time the Nats tried it. In 1999, the Nats attempt to demonise the Greens saw Green ...
Let's not forget Metiria Turei's Picnic for the Planet speech on Sunday, Karol. BTW, so appropriate the the Nats have once again chosen a venue funded by gambling.
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