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1. 

   National’s urban wing moves against Collins

   Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:17 pm, September 15th, 2021 -  106 comments
   Categories: Judith Collins, national, polls, same old national
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   Events this afternoon have confirmed that Judith Collins is indeed toast.

2. 

   COVID, We Need To Talk About Class

   Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 9:51 am, September 14th, 2021 -  27 comments
   Categories: auckland supercity, class, class war, covid-19, david seymour, health, jacinda ardern, poverty
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   We’ve never seen a nationwide disease illustrate class and deprivation like the future of the country depended on it. Not like this. This should change us.

3. 

   The strange story about the fake news poll results

   Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:21 am, August 17th, 2021 -  52 comments
   Categories: act, greens, labour, national, political parties, polls
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   The Politik website’s inadvertant publishing of fake news of a drop in Labour’s support shows how fragile the system of relying on two sources for a story is.

4. 

   Bowker may be a dick but he has not breached the draft hate speech legislation

   Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:49 am, August 15th, 2021 -  42 comments
   Categories: human rights, making shit up, Media, spin, you couldn't make this shit up
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   Troy Bowker has bowled out of Hurricanes Rugby but has claimed free speech martyrdom after the response to his well publicised criticism of the word “Aotearoa”.  But his claims of martyrdom like his recent attacks on lefties would appear to be hopelessly overbaked.

5. 

   Stick a fork in them, they’re done

   Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:58 am, June 25th, 2021 -  84 comments
   Categories: Judith Collins, national, same old national, Simon Bridges, todd muller
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   The details of a particularly brutal National Party caucus meeting that resulted in Todd Muller announced his pending retirement from Parliament have been leaked in detail to the Herald’s Claire Trevett.

6. 

   Sugar is evil

   Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:18 am, March 6th, 2021 -  20 comments
   Categories: child welfare, Dirty Politics, education, food, health, schools
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   With the recent High Court trial brought by three academics highlighting the undeserved attacks on their reputations by entities associated with the food industry now having concluded it is time for the Government to think about banning sugary drinks from schools.  And a sugar tax.

7. 

   Cruz’s Cancun crisis

   Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:56 am, February 20th, 2021 -  24 comments
   Categories: doofus of the week, making shit up, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, us politics, you couldn't make this shit up
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   What should a Texan representative do when the state is frozen over following an extreme weather event?  How about take a trip across the Mexican border for a holiday in a beach resort?

8. 

   “You can’t vote that problem away”

   Written By:  weka -  Date published: 6:03 am, January 15th, 2021 -  111 comments
   Categories: Abuse of power, us politics
   Tags: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, AOC, Billy Te Kahika

   Alexandria Oacasio-Cortez burns in the aftermath of the Capitol attacks, and the left in New Zealand seems content to ridicule our own people radicalising to the alt-right.

9. 

   The Parler purge

   Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:04 am, January 12th, 2021 -  87 comments
   Categories: Donald Trump, Media, social media lolz, uncategorized, us politics
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   Parler, which attracted right wing extremists because of its refusal to apply any rules to what people said, has had its application banned by Google and Apple and Amazon has now refused to host its data.  But it has also had all of user’s data downloaded and archived and made available to everyone, including law enforcement authorities.  Think Dirty Politics but on industrial scale.

10. 

    Must New Zealand Pay Back All This Public Debt?

    Written By:  advantage -  Date published: 9:34 am, December 20th, 2020 -  22 comments
    Categories: capitalism, covid-19, debt / deficit, Economy, grant robertson, labour, national, same old national, treasury
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    Without much fanfare, Minister Robertson has used 2020’s crisis to bury the historic scourge of monetarism and within it the excuses of the governments that used it as a pretext to sell off our key government income generators.

11. 

    Labour’s new Oceans Ministry

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:19 am, November 3rd, 2020 -  23 comments
    Categories: climate change, Conservation, david parker, Environment, food, global warming, jacinda ardern, science, Shane Jones, stuart nash, sustainability
    Tags: talleys

    Jacinda Ardern’s decision to rename the Fisheries Ministery to “Oceans and Fisheries” and install David Parker instead of Stuart Nash shows a welcome desire to protect this most precious of resources.

12. 

    Less buzz and more cooperative governing

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 10:45 am, November 1st, 2020 -  49 comments
    Categories: act, Dirty Politics, greens, labour, national, nz first, political parties, Politics, same old national
    Tags: red dwarf, rimmer

    I liked the process for the Greens and Labour agreement. From Labour’s side after this election it was logically completely unnecessary, except maybe under some weird scenarios. But it is cooperative and that is clearly something that voters reward these days. Politics isn’t about buzz. It is about effective governance.

13. 

    Large caucuses can be devilishly dangerous as National showed

    Written By:  Simon Louisson -  Date published: 12:19 pm, October 25th, 2020 -  17 comments
    Categories: labour, national, Politics
    Tags: caucus, leaks, opposition, winning from opposition

    A post mortem of the 2017-2020 parliament shows that far from being the “opposition from hell” as they had threatened, National’s caucus was as ineffective as Donald Trump dealing to Covid 19. It is a salutary lesson for the new Labour caucus which has won 64 seats in the new parliament. There may be many backbench MPs who are underemployed.

14. 

    Left/Green/Indigenous

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 12:32 pm, October 18th, 2020 -  135 comments
    Categories: election 2020, greens, labour, maori party, MMP
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    What kind of government might New Zealand have?

15. 

    When campaigns go bad

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:43 am, October 8th, 2020 -  50 comments
    Categories: Dirty Politics, Judith Collins, national, same old national
    Tags: emma mellows, hamish price, simon lusk

    Every day there is a new catastrophe for Judith Collins.  Yesterday she had a walkabout from hell when it was revealed on national news that national activists including Hamish Price had been strategically placed to pretend to be ordinary members of the public and say nice things about her for the camera.

16. 

    Trump’s not so bad: the holding our breath edition

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 11:17 am, October 4th, 2020 -  79 comments
    Categories: covid-19, Donald Trump, us politics
    Tags: authoritarianism, fascism, trumps not so bad

    An occasional series

17. 

    SFO exonerates NZ First

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 5:51 pm, September 29th, 2020 -  56 comments
    Categories: national, nz first, political parties, Politics, winston peters
    Tags: SFO

    The SFO has put out a press release a few days before overseas voting starts. They have not laid charges against NZ First or anyone in it. They have laid charges against two other people. What I find appalling is that they waited so close to the election before making it clear that whatever NZF did was lawful. To me that smacks of political malfeasance. And the complainants probably should be brought up on charges themselves for wasting police and SFO time. 

18. 

    So much for the climate change consensus

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:50 am, September 25th, 2020 -  39 comments
    Categories: climate change, election 2020, Environment, jacinda ardern, Judith Collins, national, same old national, science, Simon Bridges
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    Ten months ago National supported the Zero Carbon Bill and called for a consensus between the major political parties on the overall framework through which climate change issues are addressed.  This week National trashed all of that to try and shore up its sagging support.

19. 

    Last night’s leader debate

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 9:21 am, September 23rd, 2020 -  129 comments
    Categories: election 2020, jacinda ardern, Judith Collins
    Tags: FJK, leaders debate, relentless negativity, relentless positivity

    The leaders of our both main parties committed to neoliberalism is another kind of brutality that we seem reluctant to address.

20. 

    New Zealand believes Labour are better economic managers than National

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:51 am, July 28th, 2020 -  51 comments
    Categories: business, capitalism, jacinda ardern, Judith Collins, labour, national, paul goldsmith, same old national
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    There used to be a mantra in New Zealand politics that National were always perceived to be better managers of the economy than Labour.  Until now.

21. 

    Never argue immorality with a Tory *

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:01 am, July 24th, 2020 -  53 comments
    Categories: Dirty Politics, Iain Lees-Galloway, jacinda ardern, Judith Collins, uncategorized
    Tags: andrew falloon, covid-19

    *they will drag you down to their level and beat you through experience.

22. 

    Winston Peters Names Alleged Super Leaker

    Written By:  te reo putake -  Date published: 4:44 pm, July 22nd, 2020 -  87 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, act, class war, david seymour, Deep stuff, democracy under attack, election 2020, national/act government, Politics, same old national, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, winston peters, you couldn't make this shit up
    Tags: David Seymour, leak, rachel morton, superannuation, winston peters

    Winston Peters has named the person he says leaked his super details. Has ACT joined National in doing Dirty Politics?

23. 

    What is the best way for a political party to handle a sex scandal?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 10:16 am, July 22nd, 2020 -  61 comments
    Categories: jacinda ardern, Judith Collins, national, Politics, same old national, sexism, uncategorized
    Tags: sexual violence

    Judith Collins appears to be living by her motto, giving back double, and has made public allegations that a Labour Minister has engaged in inappropriate behaviour.  But is this the best way to handle a sex scandal?

24. 

    Another Nat MP Quits

    Written By:  te reo putake -  Date published: 2:52 pm, July 20th, 2020 -  205 comments
    Categories: class war, crosby textor, Deep stuff, democratic participation, Politics, same old national, workers' rights
    Tags: andrew falloon, national party

    Another Tory MP has quit. This time it’s first term MP Andrew Falloon.

    UPDATE: The PM was informed on Friday, but chose to be discreet.

    UPDATE: NewsHub are claiming that Falloon sent porn to a schoolgirl.

    UPDATE: The victim was a uni student and her age means no offence was committed. Further, Falloon claims it was not him that sent the pic.

25. 

    If Judith and Gerry are the answer it must have been a desperate question

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:55 am, July 15th, 2020 -  189 comments
    Categories: Gerry Brownlee, jacinda ardern, Judith Collins, national, same old national, todd muller
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    In a great leap backwards Judith Collins and Gerry Brownlee are now leaders of the National Party.

26. 

    National’s ethics

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 10:05 am, July 13th, 2020 -  49 comments
    Categories: Dirty Politics, national, political parties, Politics, same old national
    Tags: ethics, pundit, tim watkin

    There is a particularly resonant piece by Tim Watkin in Pundit. “National’s problem with privacy and privilege”. I’m only surprised that he seems to think that the National party is redeemable. They’re so into their internal myths that they fail to regard anyone or any threat as unless their voting base poll well on it. But that is National for you – they’ve consistent…. Stupid, unhelpful and short on ethics.

27. 

    Walkergate: MP Quits

    Written By:  te reo putake -  Date published: 1:49 pm, July 8th, 2020 -  65 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, class war, corruption, democracy under attack, election 2020, Politics, same old national, todd muller
    Tags: hamish walker, Michelle Boag, todd muller

    Privacy breaching MP Hamish Walker has announced he will step down at the next election. But who else should go?

    Update: Muller tries to divert attention by announcing that National still want a 4 lane highway from Chch to Ashburton. Problem solved!

28. 

    National’s “intelligence unit” kicks into gear

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:01 am, July 5th, 2020 -  120 comments
    Categories: Dirty Politics, jacinda ardern, labour, national, same old national, uncategorized
    Tags: tova o'brien

    A month ago a leak from National’s caucus said that they had set up an intelligence unit designed to dig up dirt on opponents.  Yesterday Newshub ran a story based on a candidate’s seven year old tweets.  It looks like the intelligence unit has been busy.

29. 

    Bye bye Paula

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 11:36 am, June 29th, 2020 -  79 comments
    Categories: national, paula bennett, politicans, same old national, uncategorized
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    Paula Bennett has announced that she is standing down from politics and will not seek re-election on National’s list at this year’s election.

30. 

    Green Party win: RMA amended to include climate change

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 7:05 am, June 28th, 2020 -  15 comments
    Categories: climate change, greens
    Tags: rma

    “In my view, this is one of the most significant policy changes to address climate change that we have done this term” – James Shaw

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    Dear Hamish please keep it up

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:50 am, June 8th, 2020 -  39 comments
    Categories: Dirty Politics, internet, national, Politics, same old national, social media lolz, todd muller, twitter
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    Hamish Price’s twitter game is proving to be a boon to Labour.