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  1. Bottom feeding fish

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:35 am, April 24th, 2018 -  99 comments
    Categories: clickbait, Dirty Politics, making shit up, Media, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Yesterday the Herald said something stupid about Clarke Gayford, reported his response and then reported at how the country was divided by the article.

  2. Regrets, John Key’s had a few *

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:00 am, April 6th, 2018 -  43 comments
    Categories: brand key, capitalism, climate change, disaster, Environment, global warming, john key, national, poverty, Privatisation, same old national, sustainability, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
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    or more accurately one.  A failed vanity flag referendum.

  3. Doofus of the week Easter 2018 edition

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 12:24 pm, April 1st, 2018 -  55 comments
    Categories: health
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    This week the award goes to a Fairfax reporter for writing as fawning a review of a political career as you can imagine.

  4. Talking about sexual assault

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 6:49 am, March 13th, 2018 -  236 comments
    Categories: labour
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    As news unfolds about the sexual assaults that took place at Labour’s Summer School last month, it’s time for political communities to look at how they talk about sexual assault and rape culture.

  5. The battle of the five political midgets

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:01 am, February 20th, 2018 -  102 comments
    Categories: Dirty Politics, national, same old national, Steven Joyce
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    Steven Joyce and Mark Mitchell have both thrown their hats into the ring for National’s leadership.

  6. Strong and decisive

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:54 am, February 18th, 2018 -  154 comments
    Categories: Amy Adams, Judith Collins, national, same old national, Simon Bridges, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Judith Collins has picked on the campaign term strong and decisive for behaviour better described as brutal and obdurate.

  7. Sticking with Bill is the right move for National

    Written By:  Natwatch -  Date published: 1:37 pm, February 9th, 2018 -  15 comments
    Categories: bill english, leadership, national, Satire
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    National knows what to expect with Bill.

  8. What will 2018 bring for National?

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:00 am, January 4th, 2018 -  179 comments
    Categories: act, bill english, election 2017, Gerry Brownlee, greens, jacinda ardern, labour, national, nick smith, Nikki Kaye, nz first, paula bennett, Politics, same old national, Steven Joyce
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    What are National’s prospects this year?  Will Bill English survive as leader?  Will there be resignations and a clean out of the front bench?  Stay tuned …

  9. The ten most popular Standard posts of 2017

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:30 am, December 31st, 2017 -  8 comments
    Categories: Politics, The Standard, The Standard line
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    The ten most read Standard posts of 2017.

  10. Doofus of the week – Christmas edition

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 12:29 pm, December 23rd, 2017 -  20 comments
    Categories: Dirty Politics, doofus of the week, jacinda ardern
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    Doofus of the week Christmas edition is awarded to Jordan Williams for criticising Jacinda Ardern for entering into the spirit of Christmas through #nzsecretsanta and for comparing socialism to Father Christmas.

  11. National brings its B game to social media

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:30 am, December 20th, 2017 -  52 comments
    Categories: Dirty Politics, internet, Judith Collins, Media, national, Politics, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, twitter, you couldn't make this shit up
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    A couple of recent examples suggests that National’s social media game is well below standard.  And Judith Collins is no longer the Parliamentary Queen of twitter.

  12. Right loses its shit after former criminal lawyer discovered to have acted for bad people

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 11:40 am, November 28th, 2017 -  86 comments
    Categories: Africa, corruption, Deep stuff, International, Politics, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, war, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Elements on the internet have claimed that Green MP Golriz Ghahraman must be a genocide supporter because she once acted as a defence lawyer in a war crimes tribunal.

  13. Suck it up political sleazers.

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 8:22 am, November 8th, 2017 -  113 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, act, crosby textor, Dirty Politics, Media, nz first, Politics, superannuation, winston peters
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    Winston Peters has launched a legal fishing expedition to identify who exactly breached privacy on his superannuation over payments. A problem that he shares with about 50 thousand other pensioners. Unlike them, his problem wasn’t trying to find money to repay it. It was that the breach was deliberately timed to be a classic dirty politics ploy, almost certainly by National, in the leadup to the  recent election. I wish him good fishing.

     

  14. NRT: Police Discretion

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 9:56 am, October 31st, 2017 -  19 comments
    Categories: Dirty Politics, law, police
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    Idiot/Savant at No Right Turn writes about the Police’s decision to not lay charges against former MP Todd Barclay.

  15. National loses itself

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 3:46 pm, October 25th, 2017 -  86 comments
    Categories: Deep stuff, Dirty Politics, national, same old national, spin, Steven Joyce, you couldn't make this shit up
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    It seems that National’s use of Eminem’s song lose yourself was not so legal.

  16. Reflections of a retired blogger

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 4:34 pm, October 23rd, 2017 -  67 comments
    Categories: blogs, The Standard
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    Time for me to step down as a writer here. A closing ramble, proceed at your own risk…

  17. The mess that the new government inherits

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 11:47 am, October 23rd, 2017 -  51 comments
    Categories: accountability, climate change, Dirty Politics, economy, Economy, education, Environment, global warming, health, housing, labour, national, poverty, useless, water
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    This post is too long to read. Its purpose is to serve as reference material, a “one stop” snapshot of where we are as a country. The mess that the new government inherits. The consequences of the nine long wasted years of National. The magnitude of the challenge ahead of us.

  18. NZ First: We could and should be doing better

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 8:58 am, October 20th, 2017 -  15 comments
    Categories: greens, jacinda ardern, labour, national, nz first, same old national, winston peters
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    NZ First chose to be inside Cabinet in a full coalition. I’d rather expected that they would choose to be in a confidence and supply agreement as they did with Labour back in 2005. That they decided to take the risk despite their previous experience with National is a stunning level of trust. But they work well with Labour.

  19. Where to for National?

    Written By:  Natwatch -  Date published: 8:16 am, October 20th, 2017 -  186 comments
    Categories: national
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    National need to apologise to the country for dirty politics and blatant lies. They need a huge clear out of dead wood, starting at the top. Then they need to try and figure out how MMP works.

  20. This is the day *

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:15 am, October 16th, 2017 -  120 comments
    Categories: Deep stuff, election 2017, greens, labour, national, nz first, Politics, winston peters
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    * but delays are possible.

  21. Nats – lousy at government – “brilliant” at opposition

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 9:57 am, October 15th, 2017 -  102 comments
    Categories: accountability, election 2017, labour, national, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, winston peters
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    Peters has the opportunity to put an end to this useless government (and turn National into “the opposition from hell”). I think he’s going to ’96 us, but I’d be happy to be proved wrong

  22. Another term of Nats bad news for democracy

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:01 am, October 13th, 2017 -  64 comments
    Categories: accountability, democracy under attack, election 2017
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    It’s starting to feel a lot like 1996 all over again. Another term of the Nats would be bad news for the institutions of democracy. We’ve had recent warnings on the state of the justice system, press freedom, and the public service.

  23. The Green Party’s coalition process

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 10:59 am, October 6th, 2017 -  64 comments
    Categories: election 2017, greens, MMP
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    Important in the Green’s coalition deal-making process is the party’s political positioning, and the internal processes that the party is obligated to follow. Both of those things reflect deeper values around policy and decision making. Here’s a look at what processes the Greens will follow in the coming weeks and who will be involved.

  24. Cameron Slater makes valuable contribution to blog defamation jurisprudence

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:04 am, October 5th, 2017 -  55 comments
    Categories: blogs, Deep stuff, Dirty Politics, making shit up, Media, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
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    Cameron Slater and friends and clients are in the High Court defending a claim that he defamed three health researchers.  They tried to have the case kicked out but failed.  The judgment makes for an interesting read.

  25. Gilbert calls out Nat “tribalists” who continued to back the lies

    Written By:  Natwatch -  Date published: 2:07 pm, October 4th, 2017 -  67 comments
    Categories: national, useless
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    Outspoken sociologist Dr Jarrod Gilbert on the “tribalists” who continued to back the Nats despite their brazen lies – “if Labour had made the same accusation against National and not a single economist supported it, would you have reacted the same way? No. Of course not. And that’s what defines you as a moron.”

  26. National no friends

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 8:27 am, October 2nd, 2017 -  194 comments
    Categories: bill english, climate change, Environment, ETS, james shaw, Media, national, public transport, same old national, sustainability, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, transport, winston peters
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    In a sign of desperation Bill English rang Winston Peters on the weekend but the call was not answered.  Clearly National realises that waiting for the special votes to be released will significantly weaken its bargaining position.

  27. The Herald doesn’t want Winston to go with Labour

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 11:58 am, October 1st, 2017 -  132 comments
    Categories: democracy under attack, election 2017, labour, Media, national, nz first, paula bennett, Politics, spin, Steven Joyce, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, winston peters, you couldn't make this shit up
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    The Herald has offered a number of opinions this weekend saying that Labour forming a coalition with New Zealand First would be a very bad thing.

  28. Peters hit list so far – Seymour – Eagleson – Carter

    Written By:  Natwatch -  Date published: 6:23 am, September 26th, 2017 -  84 comments
    Categories: winston peters
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    Peters has hardly cleared his throat yet and he’s already clearing out Nats and their proxies. Seymour, Eagleson, Carter – Peters won’t be stopping there. Bill English will agree to anything to cling to power. Peters is already enjoying humiliating him in public.

  29. National rules itself out of coalitions with cynical BillShit.

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 11:48 pm, September 22nd, 2017 -  4 comments
    Categories: accountability, greens, national, nz first, political parties, Politics, same old national, winston peters
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    National do a last ditch dirty politics effort. A few hours before it becomes impossible for anyone to refute this, Tracey Watkins publishes an opinion piece which sounds like the usual National BillShit. Another cynical lie designed to stop the horses from thinking rationally when they vote. This time it is a lie about things that the Greens can’t do – not without going to members. Who aren’t going to go for it.

     

  30. Federated Farmers need to cut the crap

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 1:09 pm, September 20th, 2017 -  98 comments
    Categories: Economy, Environment, farming
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    Federated Farmers continued their fear campaign today in a Herald editorial. Their anonymous demand is that “Farmers should know they are still appreciated”. It is hard to have respect looking at bills that urban dwellers and businesses pay tofix their environment, while Federated Farmers bullshit about the environmental impacts of farming and how they don’t like paying to fix them.

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