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  1. Dotcom snoopers: The “dirty, disgusting, despicable game”

    Written By:  karol -  Date published: 4:19 pm, February 14th, 2014 -  73 comments
    Categories: blogs, brand key, john key, slippery, spin, Spying, uncategorized
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    So, the PM is hinting that his tips about Winston Peters visiting Kim Dotcom 3 times, came from Cameron Slater.  But then, who was Slater’s informant? Key admits to on-going contact with Slater. [Update: transcript of John Key stand up vid, Stuff – Update 2: transcript edited; 3 News]

  2. “Dark, dirty and heartless” – Nats & Nick Smith

    Written By:  karol -  Date published: 10:56 pm, September 25th, 2013 -  52 comments
    Categories: accountability, brand key, Conservation, david cunliffe, greens, labour, russel norman, same old national, water
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    Two very good speeches in the General Debate in the House  from opposition leaders.  They highlight Nick Smith’s dodgy record, & why he should be stood down as a Minister in Key’s “Dark, dirty & heartless” government. [Update: Key – on (dis)honesty]

  3. The politics of greed

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:15 am, July 15th, 2011 -  84 comments
    Categories: capital gains, class war, Ethics, tax
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    In response to Labour’s tax proposals the Right is trotting out their favourite mindless catch phrase – “the politics of envy”.  Should the Left fight fire with fire, and get stuck in to “the politics of greed”?

  4. Our dirty water

    Written By:  r0b -  Date published: 11:54 am, May 11th, 2011 -  26 comments
    Categories: Conservation, farming, john key, water
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    John Key didn’t much like being confronted with the facts on our dirty water.  He tried to pretend that everything is just fine, when it isn’t.  No surprise to find this attitude mimicked in National’s policy on water.  They are trying to pretend that they’re doing something when they aren’t.

  5. Nick Smith’s dirty dealing

    Written By:  Marty G -  Date published: 9:33 am, September 18th, 2009 -  8 comments
    Categories: climate change, labour, maori party, national
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    Labour’s Charles Chauvel has released the paper records of Labour’s attempts to agree a bi-partisan ETS with National. In total, Labour presented three draft MOUs detailing possible agreements, each moving towards what they believed to be National’s position. Additionally, there was a letter from Phil Goff to John Key a month ago that clearly laid […]

  6. Where’s The Opposition?

    Written By:  Mountain Tui -  Date published: 11:36 am, October 13th, 2024 -  61 comments
    Categories: Chlöe Swarbrick, chris hipkins, greens, labour, maori party, marama davidson, privatisation, Public Private Partnerships, uncategorized
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    Labour, Green Party and Te Pati Māori have been relatively quiet as the Coalition government move at breakneck speed to roll back laws and transfer wealth. Is it a matter of resources, media coverage, or will?

  7. Mountain Tui: Trump’s shooting reveals a hidden danger for New Zealand too

    Written By:  Mountain Tui -  Date published: 10:00 am, July 15th, 2024 -  73 comments
    Categories: corruption, Donald Trump, spin, taxpayers union
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    Trump’s shooting has left the world shocked and bewildered. But what, if anything, does it mean for us here in New Zealand?

  8. It’s not a culture war, it’s a class war, and the left should be naming it as such

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 10:23 am, April 24th, 2024 -  34 comments
    Categories: class, Culture wars, Maori Issues, sexism
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    The culture wars exist, and they are a tool weaponised in the class war.

  9. ACT’s performative FedFoke virtual signalling

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 4:00 pm, February 1st, 2024 -  11 comments
    Categories: act, farming, uncategorized
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    Take your dirty boots off at the door ya numpties.

  10. Why was Judith Collins appointed as a KC?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:46 am, December 17th, 2023 -  35 comments
    Categories: Christopher Luxon, Judith Collins, law, law and "order", national, same old national
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    Judith Collins has been appointed a Kings Counsel even before she has had time to show her performance as Attorney General and even though previous highly respected lawyers such as David Lange, Geoffrey Palmer and Margaret Wilson were not appointed while serving as Attorneys General.

  11. Why can’t National answer straight forward questions about the Council of Trade Union’s critique of their tax policy?

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 10:38 am, October 5th, 2023 -  40 comments
    Categories: national, same old national
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    National’s tax policy doesn’t add up, and they’re trashing election and media conventions to avoid accountability. UPDATED.

  12. The weird and wacky 2023 election campaign

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 11:22 am, October 4th, 2023 -  30 comments
    Categories: act, benefits, chris bishop, Christopher Luxon, covid-19, david seymour, Dirty Politics, election 2023, national, nz first, Politics, polls, same old national, spin, winston peters
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    In a week of weird events National’s decision not to debate Labour in the Press’s leader’s debate has been a massive own goal because the country will be able to see how toxic David Seymour’s and Winston Peters’ relationship is.

  13. National does a big sook

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:58 am, September 5th, 2023 -  51 comments
    Categories: chris bishop, chris hipkins, Christopher Luxon, Dirty Politics, national, same old national, spin, taxpayers union, Unions, workers' rights
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    National, which perfected the art of dirty politics, and which has spent the past couple of years being relentlessly negative and which has had its sock puppets attack individual Labour MPs mercilessly is deeply, deeply, deeply upset that the CTU has pointed out to the public what a Christopher Luxon led Government would actually mean.

  14. Eugenie Sage’s farewell

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 11:14 am, August 25th, 2023 -  7 comments
    Categories: eugenie sage, greens
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    As always, if you want to understand green politics, listen to what the Green MPs say themselves. This speech is no exception.

  15. Later Stuart

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 11:29 am, August 20th, 2023 -  12 comments
    Categories: election 2014, elections, politicans, stuart nash
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    Stuart Nash has given a valedictory speech which could have been delivered by a retiring National MP.

  16. Countering Conspiracy – the Green Party is not in a Civil War

    Written By:  Incognito -  Date published: 4:20 pm, May 14th, 2023 -  54 comments
    Categories: Culture wars, election 2023, greens, Media, media abuse, Politics
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    Trust in academics is on a downslide, as is trust in general. This is exacerbated by academics hiding a personal-political agenda when they dabble in the public domain.

  17. Nash is goneburger

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:11 am, March 29th, 2023 -  42 comments
    Categories: chris hipkins, labour, political parties, stuart nash
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    Stuart Nash has been summarily sacked from Cabinet after an email to donors emerged indicating he had told them about sensitive Cabinet discussions on issues concerning them.

  18. Can Rishi Sunak save the Conservative Government?

    Written By:  nickkelly -  Date published: 12:26 am, January 27th, 2023 -  5 comments
    Categories: Austerity, boris johnson, Brexit, uk politics
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    Despite everything that has happened, it would be a serious mistake to underestimate the British Conservative Party which has proven time and again to be an electoral force to be reckoned with. In England, where over 80% of British voters live, Tory is the default option in many parts of the country. The polarisation within Britain is high with tensions from the Brexit debate and ongoing calls for Scottish Independence still simmering. The Tories can certainly play these divisions to their advantage in the hope of winning support

  19. Slater and Lusk limp again

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:53 am, January 19th, 2023 -  2 comments
    Categories: Dirty Politics, national, political parties, same old national
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    Cameron Slater and Simon Lusk have been accused of engaging in underhand tactics to upset National’s Tukituki selection process.

  20. Tendancy for the rate of profit to fall

    The end of the post war boom

    Written By:  nickkelly -  Date published: 7:56 am, January 11th, 2023 -  87 comments
    Categories: Austerity, Brexit, capitalism, Economy, economy, Keynes, social democracy, socialism, uk politics, Unions, workers' rights
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    Throughout my time being active in politics, people have discussed the rise of Neo-Liberalism and the free market that occurred throughout much of the world from the late 1970s onwards. Yet few seem to really understand the reasons for this significant shift in economic policy at that time, which continues to shape our society today.

  21. Bastards Versus Assholes

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 10:53 am, August 12th, 2022 -  47 comments
    Categories: chris hipkins, greens, jacinda ardern, james shaw, labour, Politics, Steven Joyce, trevor mallard, uncategorized
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    This post was written before Gaurav Sharma’s Herald article and should not be taken as validation of his comments.  There are necessary bastards in political life, and in developed democracies compared to everywhere else ours are gentle as lambs

  22. National tries to blame Labour for National’s tax flip flop flip

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:25 am, August 7th, 2022 -  13 comments
    Categories: chris bishop, Christopher Luxon, nicola willis, tax
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    Chris Bishop has accused Labour of engaging in dirty politics for pointing out that this week National has changed its policy on income tax indexation twice.

  23. Best yet in National Party splatter series in production

    Written By:  Simon Louisson -  Date published: 1:31 pm, July 28th, 2022 -  46 comments
    Categories: Christopher Luxon, Dirty Politics, national, Politics, same old national
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    The kicker in Andrea Vance’s Blue Blood, her insider’s view of the splatter-movie that has been the National Party since John Key stepped down, is that the best yet is in production. She chronicles treachery that has become the modus operandi of the vacuous vipers inhabiting the caucus. Details of the dirty work induce you to turn the page for more. It doesn’t look like Luxon is the redeemer.

  24. The inside story of National’s civil war

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 12:24 pm, July 25th, 2022 -  16 comments
    Categories: Andrew Little, bill english, brand key, Christopher Luxon, jacinda ardern, john key, Judith Collins, Media, national, national/act government, nick smith, same old national, Simon Bridges, Steven Joyce, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, todd muller, trevor mallard, uncategorized
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    Andrea Vance’s book Blood Bath provides an insider’s view of the carnage that erupted in the National Party from 2017 to 2021.  And while things have calmed down under Christopher Luxon’s his weaknesses, including his glossing over the importance of policy detail and his tendency to bag businesses has been noted.

  25. The dodgy Auckland Mayoralty Curia poll

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:58 am, June 21st, 2022 -  104 comments
    Categories: auckland supercity, dpf, efeso collins, leo molloy, Media, polls, supercity, uncategorized
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    An Auckland Ratepayers Alliance Curia poll that was trumpeted as claiming that Efeso Collins and Leo Molloy were neck and neck in terms of public support has attracted criticism after it was disclosed that the poll of 500 persons had 53% stating that they did not know who they would vote for.

  26. Chris Bishop – manipulated, lying, or just plain stupid?

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 12:55 pm, February 9th, 2022 -  24 comments
    Categories: chris bishop, Dirty Politics, national, Politics, same old national, uncategorized
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    Roche, a major manufacturer of RATs, issued a statement to media on Tuesday night saying none of its stocks had been diverted or seized by the Government.
    “RAT kits have been, and will continue to be, supplied to all New Zealand customers, including the Ministry of Health, in the sequence that purchase orders were placed,”. Chris Bishop MP is still claiming mythical evidence from local suppliers.

  27. National’s factional problem

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:18 am, November 28th, 2021 -  91 comments
    Categories: chris bishop, Christopher Luxon, farming, liberalism, national, religion, same old national, Simon Bridges
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    National’s basic problem is that it has three discrete factions, christian conservatives, urban liberals and the country grouping.  And no coherent vision to reconcile these totally disparate groupings.

  28. How many centrist votes go to Labour?

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 12:38 pm, November 25th, 2021 -  105 comments
    Categories: act, David Farrar, Dirty Politics, Judith Collins, labour, national, politicans, Politics, same old national, Shane Reti
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    Judith Collins lost a vote of confidence. David Farrar seems to think that Act will get the inevitable flow. Sounds unlikely. The far right and nutbar fringe has already vacated to Act – who represent them so well. But Labour overwhelming won last election on a vote from previous National voters. History repeats in 2023?

  29. National’s civil war reerrupts

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:35 am, November 25th, 2021 -  131 comments
    Categories: Judith Collins, national, same old national, Simon Bridges
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    National’s civil war which has been simmering for a while erupted last night after Judith Collins demoted Simon Bridges for making inappropriate comments to Jaqui Dean five years ago.

  30. Slater smears again

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:33 am, October 18th, 2021 -  104 comments
    Categories: Dirty Politics, jacinda ardern, labour, Media, uncategorized
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    The Herald’s publication of an attack on Ardern by a wedding venue owner appears to have been sourced from Cameron Slater and brings into stark relief the Herald’s twin business model of funding serious journalism by both subscriptions and the use of click bait.

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