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Nick Smith rejoices as Jake Bezzant takes public spotlight off him

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 2:41 pm, June 2nd, 2021 - 15 comments
Categories: election 2020, national, Politics, sexism
Tags: jake bezzant

Jake Bezzant was meant to be one of National’s bright new things, having last year been selected in then safe Upper Harbour. If things were normal he would be in Parliament right now. Instead an internal leaking campaign destroyed his chances and it now transpires that he has engaged in behaviour that is certainly immoral and should be illegal.
Naughty Nick’s Parliamentary Porkie

Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 7:39 am, March 22nd, 2018 - 39 comments
Categories: national, nick smith, same old national, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, trevor mallard, you couldn't make this shit up
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Nick Smith has been caught out by Trevor Mallard telling a porkie in Parliament.
Special Housing Area provisions are failing but Nick Smith thinks everything is fine

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:50 am, July 4th, 2017 - 25 comments
Categories: housing, national, national/act government, nick smith, Politics, same old national, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
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Nick Smith is attempting to rewrite history by claiming that the Government never thought the special housing area affordable housing provisions would work and that the housing crisis is improving.
Nick knifed

Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 9:51 am, April 26th, 2017 - 15 comments
Categories: housing, national, nick smith, useless
Tags: demotion, housing, housing crisis, nick smith, ouch
Nick Smith is a disgrace

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 1:00 pm, March 14th, 2017 - 32 comments
Categories: Abuse of power, Environment, national, Parliament, Politics, same old national, sustainability, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
Tags: nick smith

In a functioning democracy Nick Smith’s handling of the Resource Management Bill should result in him losing his ministerial warrant.
Nats contradicting each other on panicked infrastructure policy

Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 8:40 am, August 8th, 2016 - 29 comments
Categories: bill english, housing, national, useless
Tags: housing, housing crisis, nick smith, policy

From Newshub:
Listen to Nick Smith trying to defend fudged foreign ownership data

Written By: Natwatch - Date published: 10:30 am, August 2nd, 2016 - 22 comments
Categories: housing, national, useless
Tags: dodgy statistics, duncan garner, foreign ownership, housing crisis, lies, nick smith

Anyone who believes the Nats’ figures needs to listen to yesterday’s interview – Why won’t Nick Smith answer this one simple question? Excellent work from Garner.
The strip mining of Housing Corp is accelerated

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:16 am, September 17th, 2015 - 33 comments
Categories: class war, john key, national, national/act government, poverty, same old national, slippery
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Not only is Housing Corp planning to pay a $118 million dividend to the Crown this year but hidden away in its accounts is the payment of a further capital contribution of $336 million. Talk about strip mining …
Nick Smith; Thick as a Short Plank?

Written By: te reo putake - Date published: 9:56 am, July 3rd, 2015 - 25 comments
Categories: accountability, China, exports, same old national, sustainability
Tags: #saveourkauri, nick smith

National’s Nick Smith appears to have misled Parliament over the illegal export of Kauri logs. Thankfully for Smith, it’s nothing to do with the rumours swirling around who is responsible for the loss of our irreplaceable heritage timber, but more to do with the Minister’s inability to understand a clear and explicit piece of legislation.
Armstrong and Small on Nick Smith’s RMA reforms

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:05 am, January 24th, 2015 - 26 comments
Categories: journalism, local government, Media, national, newspapers, Politics, same old national
Tags: nick smith

Senior political reporters Vern Small and John Armstrong have both chosen to pan Nick Smith’s proposed RMA changes using remarkably similar logic. Update: and Fran O’Sullivan has a go too.
The Credibility Stakes: John Key vs Nicky Hager

Written By: Guest post - Date published: 2:12 pm, August 15th, 2014 - 58 comments
Categories: john key
Tags: BLip, dirty politics, john armstrong, nicky hager

BLip comments on John Armstrong’s article yesterday. Then he updates his “Honest Man” list about John Key and his limited understanding of the truth.
When will John Key hold his ministers to account?

Written By: Bunji - Date published: 7:23 am, July 30th, 2014 - 20 comments
Categories: john key, national
Tags: ministers, responsibility

The list of National ministers with dodgy dealings is growing. But John seems desperate to keep them all. Higher standards are only something you talk about in opposition apparently. I guess when you have a list that’s brought in the likes of Aaron Gilmore and Claudette Hauiti there’s not much of a pool to be choosing new ministers from; but have National never heard of responsibility for one’s actions?
Nick Smith must resign

Written By: Bunji - Date published: 11:25 pm, July 28th, 2014 - 66 comments
Categories: national, scoundrels
Tags: nick smith

I agree with Fish and Game: Nick Smith has severely overstepped the mark – again – and must resign as a minister. He may as well stand down as an MP as he should never be back in a ministerial capacity given the list of times he’s been caught lying and cheating are longer than his arm.
Nick Smith losing it

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 12:31 pm, July 28th, 2014 - 76 comments
Categories: national, water
Tags: bullying, fish and game, nick smith, stifling dissent

“Conservation Minister Nick Smith is threatening legal action against Fish and Game council members who accused him of trying to gag the organisation.”
EDS attacks Nick Smith’s Ruataniwha Dam process

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:39 am, October 11th, 2013 - 19 comments
Categories: Conservation, Environment, same old national, water
Tags: amy adams, nick smith, Ruataniwha dam

The Chair of the Environmental Defence Society has heavily criticised the Ruataniwha Dam process for requiring the voluntary sector to test the scientific evidence, for requiring the analysis of highly technical scientific evidence within a very short time period, and for not including a freshwater expert on the Board of Inquiry. He has described the process as being fundamentally flawed and has stated that the process appears to be designed to facilitate the granting of consents. There is something wrong going on here.
Key loses his “Centre”, Herald spins right, Smith on the ropes

Written By: karol - Date published: 11:31 am, September 25th, 2013 - 35 comments
Categories: Conservation, david cunliffe, greens, housing, john key, labour, MMP, poverty, spin
Tags: nick smith

Cunliffe’s moderate, centre left Labour is on the rise; MSM-supported, NAct smears & negative spin is in over-drive. John Key and the NZ Herald editorial spin from the radical “neoliberal” right. Slippery Nick Smith, a NAct weak point, is under concerted pressure. [Updated]
NRT: More lies from Smith

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 1:19 pm, September 20th, 2013 - 11 comments
Categories: Conservation, Environment, greens
Tags: nick smith, no right turn

Yesterday in Question Time Nick Smith continued to pretend that he had not forced DoC to shitcan its submission on the Ruataniwha Water Storage Scheme. He even went so far as to claim that he had no idea that the submission even existed until this week. But it was just more lies
Nick Smith and the Ruataniwha dam

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:24 am, September 19th, 2013 - 37 comments
Categories: Conservation, Environment, water
Tags: nick smith

Nick Smith says he did not even know a document existed even though he was given a full briefing on it. And after he gets involved a submission critical of the environmental effect the proposed Ruataniwha Dam will have on the Tukituki River is drastically altered. There is something distinctly smelly about this.
The shameless Nick Smith

Written By: karol - Date published: 10:43 am, May 24th, 2013 - 31 comments
Categories: ACC, accountability, auckland supercity, Conservation, greens, housing, john key, labour, Mining, same old national, slippery, sustainability
Tags: nick smith

Nick Smith has a long history of slippery dealings. He apologises but accepts no blame, then is resurrected: contempt of court, a defamation case, the Pullar-ACC “conflict of interest”, bad faith negotiations with Auckland Council, the Denniston Plateau deal. Yesterday on RNZ, Smith exposed the government’s agenda on mining conservation land.
When an “accord” is not

Written By: karol - Date published: 10:08 am, May 17th, 2013 - 130 comments
Categories: accountability, auckland supercity, bill english, class war, democracy under attack, housing, labour, local government, privatisation, same old national, sustainability
Tags: nick smith, phil twyford

Yesterday’s budget is a sop to affordable housing & aims to privatise state housing. Penny Hulse says the government’s related “housing accord” Bill is at odds with the agreement her council has not yet ratified. It overrides local democracy & endangers the AKL “agreement”. [Update] Waitakere News analysis
Auckland housing: Brown vs Smith

Written By: karol - Date published: 10:54 am, March 7th, 2013 - 53 comments
Categories: auckland supercity, capitalism, climate change, democracy under attack, Environment, housing, infrastructure, public services, public transport, sustainability, transport
Tags: len brown, nick smith

Nick Smith, of the forked tongue, is challenging Auckland council’s plan for affordable compact housing. It will do nothing for housing affordability, transport, the environment. It is undemocratic, over-rides the council, and will enrich developers.
ImperatorFish: The ACC Scandal Live Updates

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 3:54 pm, March 22nd, 2012 - 4 comments
Categories: ACC, corruption
Tags: nick smith

Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here.

The demise of Nick Smith has been spectacular, but it is not an end to the ACC privacy story, and the story continues to develop by the hour.
The real Nick Smith scandal

Written By: Guest post - Date published: 3:00 pm, March 21st, 2012 - 15 comments
Categories: local government
Tags: nick smith

It’s a shame Nick Smith is all over the political news at the moment for his ACC botch up because he should really be all over the news for his Better Local Government proposals. Saying “Rates are too high. They keep rising. It’s outrageous” isn’t enough. Kneecapping local governments’ autonomy, and slowly bleeding them of the ability to invest money in anything cannot be unchallenged.
Smith makes a mess of local government reforms

Written By: Eddie - Date published: 12:07 pm, March 21st, 2012 - 18 comments
Categories: local government
Tags: lies, nick smith

Part of Nick Smith’s problem is that he doesn’t understand how to build public support for change before trying to implement it. Instead, he pulls out some dodgy numbers and tries to trick the public. This backfired in the debacle over ACC levy changes when he provoked one of the first big protests against the National government. Now, it’s happening with local government.
Smith to go

Written By: Zetetic - Date published: 7:45 am, March 21st, 2012 - 218 comments
Categories: ACC, corruption, john key
Tags: nick smith

Even 1 year ago, there would be no doubt what would happen next. He would have sacked Smith without hesitation. Has Key lost those instincts already?
Updates: won’t comment now but will this afternoon. Needs time to make some backroom deals so that skeletons stay in closets? Smith was been summoned to Wellington. Press conference at 1.45. And He’s gone. They’re trying to downplay the reasons. What a disgrace. Full video of Key offloading Nick Smith
ImperatorFish: Nick Smith Must Go

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 11:52 am, March 20th, 2012 - 56 comments
Categories: corruption
Tags: ACC, conflict of interest, nick smith

Scott at Imperator Fish has kindly given us permission to syndicate posts from his blog – the original of this post is here.

Bye Dr Nick!
Nats’ ACC scandal getting worse by the day

Written By: Zetetic - Date published: 9:08 am, March 20th, 2012 - 88 comments
Categories: ACC, scoundrels
Tags: nick smith

Nick Smith, while Minister for ACC wrote a letter in support of the claims of, um, close personal contact Bronwyn Pullar last year after Pullar threatened to embarrass him and ACC. He says, this was in his personal capacity, even though it was on ~~parliamentary~~ ministerial letterhead. And what kind of coincidence is it that the largest accidental leak by ACC in history went to Pullar?
Smith to announce ACC privatisation

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:30 am, May 30th, 2011 - 85 comments
Categories: ACC, privatisation
Tags: chris hipkins, nick smith

Labour’s Chris Hipkins has the inside word: On Wednesday this week, Nick Smith is going to announce what amounts to the effective privatisation of a large part of ACC. You won’t hear the word privatisation uttered from his lips, he’ll use all sorts of other words like ‘competition’ and ‘market discipline’, but privatisation it will be.
English, Guy, Groser, McCully, & Smith to follow Jones, Carter & Ririnui?

Written By: Marty G - Date published: 11:32 pm, June 13th, 2010 - 142 comments
Categories: accountability, parliamentary spending
Tags: double-dipton, expenses

Phil Goff is back in the country and, as predicted, his first move is going to be to take their portfolios off Shane Jones, Chris Carter, and, probably, Mita Ririnui for their misuse of their credit cards. The attention will now turn to the abuses of those who haven’t been punished for their wasteful and greedy use of public money – Tim Groser, Murray McCully, Nathan Guy, Nick Smith, and Bill English. Updated
RNZ reveals ACC privatisation agenda

Written By: Marty G - Date published: 9:03 am, April 23rd, 2010 - 71 comments
Categories: ACC, privatisation, same old national
Tags: john judge, nick smith

National’s hysteria around ACC last year was focused on creating an air of crisis. Now they’re going to ‘do something’. That something is privatisation of ACC. It won’t work, it won’t save money. The costs of injuries will still exist. Privatisation will put more of that cost on the injured. Added ligation and profits will mean worse cover for more cost.
ACC levy hikes another step to privatisation

Written By: Marty G - Date published: 8:40 am, December 11th, 2009 - 79 comments
Categories: ACC, privatisation
Tags: john judge, nick smith

As expected, Nick Smith has imposed substantial ACC levy hikes on families. For a worker on $40,000 with a car, you’re looking at $150 more a year. I would say that would take a large bite out of most people’s tax cuts but the fact is most people didn’t get a tax cut from National. […]