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  1. John Key’s business experience

    Written By:  John A -  Date published: 4:20 pm, October 29th, 2008 -  9 comments
    Categories: humour
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    Explained in detail

  2. Gone Flippin’

    Written By:  Steve Pierson -  Date published: 11:58 am, October 29th, 2008 -  21 comments
    Categories: election 2008, flip-flop, john key, national, slippery
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    Slippery John’s flip-flops keep on coming. Here he is just three weeks ago in the Listener: “you either have a conflict of interest or you don’t; it doesn’t matter whether you hold one share or a million” and, today, on Breakfast: ‘it’s a very small number, no-one thinks a Member of Parliament with 500 Contact […]

  3. Update on Brownlee

    Written By:  Steve Pierson -  Date published: 5:20 pm, October 28th, 2008 -  37 comments
    Categories: corruption, election 2008, john key, national
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    There are substantive policy issues such as National’s privatisation plans for the prisons that need to be covered but, first, an update on Gerry Brownlee’s conflict of interest. According to the NZPA: Brownlee said his shareholding (496 shares, worth around $4,000 during 2002-2003) was too small to amount to a pecuniary interest. – Pecuniary interest is […]

  4. Standard Scoop: Key exposed again on secret shares and Tranzrail

    Written By:  Steve Pierson -  Date published: 9:00 pm, October 26th, 2008 -  145 comments
    Categories: corruption, election 2008, john key, national, slippery
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    When the Tranzrail shares came to light, Key was asked whether he had any other undisclosed shares entailing a conflict of interest. He said he didn’t. That was not true. National Party Leader John Key failed to disclose his conflict of interest arising from his share holding in Fletcher Challenge Forests while using his privileges […]

  5. Video: National muppets

    Written By:  Dancer -  Date published: 9:51 am, October 26th, 2008 -  11 comments
    Categories: humour, youtube
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    Warning – this song will stick in your head!

  6. Video: Election coverage 23rd Oct

    Written By:  Dancer -  Date published: 9:18 am, October 24th, 2008 -  1 comment
    Categories: youtube
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    If you missed Ali Ikram’s view of the day (from yesterday)

  7. Lockwood vs Lockwood

    Written By:  all_your_base -  Date published: 2:42 pm, October 23rd, 2008 -  5 comments
    Categories: youtube
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    A different ‘story of two National party guys’ from 08wire:

  8. Debtmonster

    Written By:  all_your_base -  Date published: 11:06 am, October 23rd, 2008 -  30 comments
    Categories: election 2008, youtube
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    UPDATE: The Pink Batts original is youtubed here.

  9. CTU YouTube vid

    Written By:  all_your_base -  Date published: 10:38 pm, October 22nd, 2008 -  25 comments
    Categories: workers' rights, youtube
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    Yep, that’s a pusy Roger Douglas zombie eye staring at you. Ew.

  10. Video: Election campaign, 22 Oct

    Written By:  Dancer -  Date published: 5:34 pm, October 22nd, 2008 -  19 comments
    Categories: helen clark, john key, youtube
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    Observations of the campaign trails from TV3’s Ali Ikram…. Not sure what I think of those “bleeps” on the John Key excerpt…

  11. John vs John

    Written By:  Tane -  Date published: 11:20 am, October 21st, 2008 -  53 comments
    Categories: election 2008, john key, kiwisaver, labour
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    Labour’s new television ad is up on Youtube and I’m pleased to see it’s actually pretty bloody good. They’ve managed to draw attention to one of John’s many flipflops, this one on Kiwisaver, in a way that uses humour and sticks to the facts and thereby avoids the nastiness often associated with negative campaigning. It’s […]

  12. Video: 12 Flip Flops from Mr Key

    Written By:  Dancer -  Date published: 4:25 pm, October 17th, 2008 -  33 comments
    Categories: humour, maori party, youtube
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    National policy on Maori seats (2007): “The Caucus today confirmed that the Maori seats will be abolished, which we anticipate will take place around the time of settlement of historic Treaty claims,” says National Party Leader John Key. National policy on Maori seats (Sept 2008); “National wants to scrap the Maori seats in Parliament once all […]

  13. Pita falls for the lines – but not for long

    Written By:  Dancer -  Date published: 1:09 pm, October 16th, 2008 -  97 comments
    Categories: john key, maori party, slippery, youtube
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    I have some sympathy for Dr PIta Sharples over the fallout of Mr Key’s promises. He’s clearly been left high and dry by Mr Key, his would-be coalition partner. According to the Maori Party’s chief of staff we now find: …that Mr Key was clear in the meeting that National’s position could be put on the backburner. […]

  14. Telling lies

    Written By:  Steve Pierson -  Date published: 12:00 pm, October 16th, 2008 -  9 comments
    Categories: election 2008, helen clark, john key
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    With the wit we’ve come to expect, 08wire has Key up on his many lies during the Tuesday debate. To my surprise, TV One didn’t bother doing fact checking even during their tedious hour-long run-down after the debate, whereas we were fact checking live on The Standard. I wish TV One would be our CNN […]

  15. Where were you then (and do you care?)

    Written By:  Dancer -  Date published: 11:38 pm, October 15th, 2008 -  94 comments
    Categories: john key, youtube
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    Lots of comments continue over the leaders debate. One of the bits that made it through the usual dinner time madness in my household was the section on the Springbok tour. It reminded me of this video clip. In it, Key was all over the place, before adopting that favourite technique, tell everyone what they […]

  16. A matter of trust

    Written By:  Steve Pierson -  Date published: 11:56 am, October 15th, 2008 -  42 comments
    Categories: election 2008, john key, slippery
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    The Youtube debate was a bit of a let down to me because TV1 chose to play the least penetrating questions, allowing the leaders to pretty much stick to their stock answers. The only question that really broke through the pre-prepared stuff was Shane Taurima’s query about whether it is true that, as Pita Sharples […]

  17. Nat vs Nat on National policy

    Written By:  Steve Pierson -  Date published: 10:50 am, October 15th, 2008 -  22 comments
    Categories: education, election 2008, national, youtube
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    National wants to introduce a 90 Day no work rights period for new employees. Now, in the face of very strong opposition to the policy, they have been forced to scale it back to only workplaces where there are 20 or fewer employees. But big questions still remain – not least of all whether teachers […]

  18. Video: TV3 on Key’s campaign day 2

    Written By:  Dancer -  Date published: 4:52 pm, October 14th, 2008 -  Comments Off on Video: TV3 on Key’s campaign day 2
    Categories: education, election 2008, john key, youtube
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    Media coverage of the campaign is coming thick and fast – a helpful reader pointed out this excerpt from TV3 on Key’s day yesterday.

  19. Labour chickens out on $15 minimum wage

    Written By:  Steve Pierson -  Date published: 2:54 pm, October 14th, 2008 -  23 comments
    Categories: election 2008, greens, labour, wages, workers' rights
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    Labour, why do you do this to me? One day you’re announcing neo-Keynesian policies to help us through the coming recession, then you stand up for the principle that access to education shouldn’t be dependent on the wealth of ones parents, and, then, just when I’m starting to believe that you really are a true […]

  20. Down with literacy

    Written By:  Eddie -  Date published: 9:31 am, October 14th, 2008 -  45 comments
    Categories: education, election 2008, humour, john key, national, youtube
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    A crusade on illiteracy, surely. Um, I’m not sure we want to entrust these guys with improving language skills. [Update: true to form, the people in the sector don’t know what the hell National is talking about. Teachers say National seems to be taking about some vague reporting system, not more resources to actually improve […]

  21. ‘Give me warning next time’, Key whimpers

    Written By:  Steve Pierson -  Date published: 4:08 pm, October 13th, 2008 -  44 comments
    Categories: economy, election 2008, helen clark, john key, labour, national
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    While Key was blathering on about who-cares-what yesterday, Clark announced a radical and forward-looking economic stimulus package. Now, Key is having a cry over Clark not notifying him beforehand of the deposit insurance scheme. As if the Prime Minister needs to seek the approval of an opposition party before setting government policy. Key whines that monetary […]

  22. Tories still bigots at heart

    Written By:  Steve Pierson -  Date published: 11:56 pm, October 12th, 2008 -  47 comments
    Categories: bill english, election 2008, helen clark, national, same old national, sexism
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    When I saw this guy using the guise of a Youtube debate question to attack Clark on her appearance, I felt sorry for the little jerk – what a pathetic life he must lead. When I saw Bill ‘do what it takes to win’ English do the same thing (at 1.30), while an audience of […]

  23. A real economic plan

    Written By:  IrishBill -  Date published: 8:21 pm, October 12th, 2008 -  16 comments
    Categories: economy
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    One of the things that has pissed me off about MSM political analysis lately is the constant repetition of the idea that cutting taxes in a recession is all you need to do to be considered Keynesian. This is generally remarked upon in the context of National shifting their economic policy left (that “Keynesianism” and […]

  24. Live: Helen Clark launches Labour campaign

    Written By:  all_your_base -  Date published: 2:06 pm, October 12th, 2008 -  9 comments
    Categories: labour
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  25. John’s cheese

    Written By:  IrishBill -  Date published: 9:03 am, October 12th, 2008 -  16 comments
    Categories: john key, tax
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    For the many of you who won’t know, Tory boys David Farrar and Cameron Slater have been driving around the country interviewing MPs and youtubing the results. They did John Key in Rotorua the other day and the result is telling: What particularly interested me was Key’s response to DPF’s question (at 1’45”) about what […]

  26. Video: The Joker

    Written By:  Dancer -  Date published: 8:52 am, October 11th, 2008 -  22 comments
    Categories: humour, john key, youtube
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    Spotted by an eagle eyed reader. Fancy leaving the running of our economy up to the Joker? Seems like the economic risks/challenges ahead have proved a creative inspiration….

  27. What happens if Nats gut Kiwisaver?

    Written By:  Steve Pierson -  Date published: 12:53 pm, October 10th, 2008 -  23 comments
    Categories: economy, election 2008, john key, kiwisaver, labour, national, youtube
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    I was going to write about the economic effects of taking money out of Kiwisaver and spending it on tax cuts but this youtube video with South Park characters does the job and is much more fun: (hattip: Labour’s ‘Campaign Trail‘ blog)

  28. Green TV ads

    Written By:  Tane -  Date published: 10:55 am, October 10th, 2008 -  22 comments
    Categories: election 2008, greens
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    The Greens’ new TV ads are up on Youtube. Pretty sparse, but they get the message across clearly. [Hat tip: frogblog]

  29. In case you missed it

    Written By:  all_your_base -  Date published: 9:31 am, October 10th, 2008 -  14 comments
    Categories: bill english, election 2008, same old national
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    Here’s the footage from 3News last night on the fresh National Party cocktail revelations. Bill English’s comments again serve to reinforce the message of The Hollow Men: this is a group of people who are about winning at all costs, principles be damned.  

  30. Power to attack Nats’ new prison policy?

    Written By:  Guest post -  Date published: 2:55 pm, October 7th, 2008 -  30 comments
    Categories: crime, election 2008, flip-flop, national, slippery
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    If he stands true to his principles, National justice spokesman Simon Power will soon be criticising the cost of their proposed new prison. You’ll note in this story that National proposes to build a prison (for their new reactionary justice policy) at a cost of $314 million. That is $548,951 per bed. Or not far […]

  31. Depressing

    Written By:  Tane -  Date published: 10:14 am, October 6th, 2008 -  29 comments
    Categories: crime, national
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    I see National has released a knee-jerk reactionary crime policy this morning, and it’s been reported largely uncritically by a news media that’s made a fortune fostering public fear of crime at a time when crime rates are falling and resolution rates are on the rise. It’s frankly depressing that our level of public debate […]

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