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1. 

   Why I voted two ticks Labour

   Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 9:02 am, September 20th, 2017 -  64 comments
   Categories: election 2017, greens, labour
   Tags: #ChangeTheGovt, election 2017, let's do this, vanity posts

   The Nats do not deserve to lead NZ so I voted for change. The electorate vote was simple. I struggled with the party vote.

2. 

   Roy Morgan – shows the Nats have been targeting the wrong place

   Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 10:59 pm, September 15th, 2017 -  98 comments
   Categories: Politics
   Tags: Roy Morgan poll

   With the usual inane commentary from our aussie cousins, we get the final Roy Morgan poll. It shows Labour + Greens at 60 seats and with choice of partners to take them over 60 seats. It shows National at 50 seats and requiring NZ First + the Maori Party and Nationals servile parties to get […]

3. 

   Speaking of mothers

   Written By:  weka -  Date published: 1:28 pm, September 5th, 2017 -  31 comments
   Categories: benefits, Economy, feminism, greens, welfare
   Tags: #greenthegovt, anti-neoliberalism, green politics, mothers, neoliberalism

   There’s a direct relationship between how badly we treat mothers and how much we exalt neoliberalism.

4. 

   National have poisoned the Peters well

   Written By:  Natwatch -  Date published: 10:55 am, September 3rd, 2017 -  50 comments
   Categories: Dirty Politics, election 2017, winston peters
   Tags: #ChangeTheGovt, come at the king, dirty politics, king maker

   National deciding to go after Winston Peters was a high risk strategy, and it has backfired on them. Caught between their own dirty history and a resurgent Labour.

5. 

   Why is Farrar smearing the superannuation shit?

   Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 7:59 am, September 1st, 2017 -  38 comments
   Categories: blogs, David Farrar, national, nz first, same old national, winston peters
   Tags: #dirtypolitics, dirty politics, kiwiblog, sewer

   A lot of politics and political blogging is all about the details. This includes National’s pollster David Farrar who falsely asserted yesterday that Winston would have received 7 annual letters about his superannuation status. So why is National trying to irritate their only possible coalition partner?

6. 

   Regeneration Minister’s Mysterious Non-appearance

   Written By:  tracey -  Date published: 11:57 am, August 31st, 2017 -  13 comments
   Categories: uncategorized
   Tags:

   Nicky Wagner seems to shy away from the hard stuff. First gazing dreamily out a window wishing she was somewhere else (when being addressed by Disability groups) and now a no-show at a debate about her City and Portfolio.

7. 

   “All I can do … is tell the Truth”

   Written By:  tracey -  Date published: 2:47 pm, August 30th, 2017 -  50 comments
   Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, brethren, business, capitalism, crosby textor, democracy under attack, Dirty Politics, uncategorized
   Tags:

   “Our integrity and our role as Ministers in holding confidential information is absolutely pivotal to our role”  Bennett 2017

8. 

   No one can have any confidence in a Nat NZF coalition

   Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:01 am, August 30th, 2017 -  45 comments
   Categories: bill english, Dirty Politics, election 2017, national, same old national, winston peters
   Tags: coalition of chaos, dirty politics, election 2017, hit job, unstable, winston peters

   Peters is enraged by the presumed Nat hit on him over super. Earlier he was calling on Bill English to resign over the Barclay scandal. Given these conflicts, no one can have any confidence in a post-election Nat NZF coalition. They hate each other.

9. 

   Labour announce affordable tertiary education

   Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 10:05 am, August 29th, 2017 -  54 comments
   Categories: education, jacinda ardern, labour, tertiary education
   Tags: education, education should be free, labour, policy

   As the Nats stand exposed in another apparent dirty politics hit, Labour gets on with the job of winning the election. Jacinda Ardern today announced new policy: Making tertiary education and training affordable for all.

10. 

    National’s political hit job on Winston Peters

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 7:22 am, August 29th, 2017 -  231 comments
    Categories: Dirty Politics, labour, Media, national, nz first, Politics, same old national, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, winston peters
    Tags: anne tolley

    The hit job that has just been performed on Winston Peters is a sign of how desperate National is to divert attention from Jacindamania.  But I suspect the attempt will backfire.

11. 

    Bomber Bradbury wins privacy complaint against Police

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:32 am, August 28th, 2017 -  47 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, democracy under attack, Dirty Politics, Politics
    Tags: david fisher, Martin Bomber Bradbury, nicky hager

    Bomber Bradbury has succeeded in getting the Privacy Commissioner to rule that Police accessing his bank records without a search warrant was illegal.

12. 

    Garner on Nats’ brighter future fail

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 10:11 am, August 26th, 2017 -  70 comments
    Categories: national, uncategorized, useless
    Tags: #ChangeTheGovt, brighter future, duncan garner, nine long years

    Duncan Garner reviews National’s record, and is not impressed: “Because the list of blind spots for National is too long. If this is success then our standards have slipped.”

13. 

    Words on leaving the House of pain and strength

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 8:48 am, August 24th, 2017 -  32 comments
    Categories: greens
    Tags: catherine delahunty, valedictory

    All gratitude to Catherine Delahunty for this blazing speech.

14. 

    Jacinda’s campaign launch speech

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 5:17 pm, August 20th, 2017 -  111 comments
    Categories: election 2017, jacinda ardern, labour
    Tags:

    The text of Jacinda Ardern’s campaign speech delivered today.

15. 

    National’s Record On The Environment – Abysmal

    Written By:  BLiP -  Date published: 9:48 am, August 19th, 2017 -  24 comments
    Categories: Environment, paula bennett
    Tags:

    In the style of how John Key’s contribution to the truth was discussed, lets take a wee look at National’s record on the environment

16. 

    It is National’s time for the brown trousers

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 11:26 pm, August 9th, 2017 -  92 comments
    Categories: labour, mana, maori party, national, nz first, Politics, TOPS, united future
    Tags: david farrar, kiwiblog

    If you want to know why the right is farting so much personal smoke, take a look at the poll trends 2011, 2014, 2017. It’s not a pretty picture for the Nats.

17. 

    Real and poor

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 8:12 am, August 9th, 2017 -  27 comments
    Categories: benefits, equality, Metiria Turei, poverty, welfare
    Tags: manurewa, Mihingarangi Forbes

    It’s time to hear what poor people have to say about being poor.

18. 

    Bennett faces petition and protest over historical allegations

    Written By:  Natwatch -  Date published: 6:29 am, August 7th, 2017 -  126 comments
    Categories: accountability, paula bennett
    Tags: allegations, paula bennett, WINZ

    No doubt those purity pledge campaigners who rained stones on Metiria Turei will be just as keen to get to the bottom of all this, and no doubt Paula Bennett will be keen to take personal responsibility and clear her name.

19. 

    Gower on Turei’s sacrifice

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:02 am, August 5th, 2017 -  47 comments
    Categories: benefits, Metiria Turei, welfare
    Tags: legend, metiria turei, Patrick Gower

    Consider the sharp contrast between the lies and dirty politics that the Nats have brazened out in the last 9 years and the way that Metiria Turei fronted up and took responsibility for decades old youthful mistakes. Gower is right that it has headed off the Nats’ attack lines and they will be fuming.

20. 

    Paula Bennett’s problems not over

    Written By:  Natwatch -  Date published: 6:38 am, August 3rd, 2017 -  28 comments
    Categories: paula bennett
    Tags: accusations, nothing to hide nothing to fear, paula bennett

    Not seeing very much of Paula Bennett about at the moment are we. Her lawyers shut down certain allegations against her, but it seems that they are not going away. Perhaps Bennett should get it all out in the open and clear her name. Nothing to hide, nothing to fear?

21. 

    Greens and the Māori Party on the new Labour leaders

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 12:57 pm, August 1st, 2017 -  27 comments
    Categories: election 2017, greens, jacinda ardern, labour, maori party
    Tags: coalition, coalition of the left, Labour leadership

    Coalition partners in the wings, game on for the left.

22. 

    Digitally shaping the election

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 10:49 am, July 30th, 2017 -  22 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, democracy under attack, interweb, spin, Spying
    Tags: artificial intelligence, big data, cambridge analytica, democracy under attack, social media

    Social media offers a rich tool for profiling voters and targeting election advertising or informal messaging. There’s a good piece on RNZ today looking at the issue. How long before we see the methods used by Brexit and Trump campaigns employed in NZ?

23. 

    Nats default to bully mode over Barclay scandal

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:02 am, July 17th, 2017 -  26 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, bill english, Dirty Politics, journalism, national, useless
    Tags: #debarclay, #dirtypolitics, bullies, bullying, dirty politics, stifling dissent, Todd Barclay

    The ongoing Barclay scandal has taking a familiar turn, with the PM’s office trying dirty tactics on journalists. Meanwhile the pressure builds on English over Barclay’s taxpayer funded disappearing act.

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    Skepticism cynicism lies and hypocrisy

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 7:30 am, July 8th, 2017 -  17 comments
    Categories: climate change, Deep stuff, Dirty Politics, global warming, Propaganda, spin
    Tags: guardian, hypocrisy, lies, long read, psyc101

    There’s a very good / depressing long read in The Guardian on the dangerous “weaponising” of cynicism by climate change deniers. One of the most interesting sections was a discussion of the way that voters are more forgiving of lies than hypocrisy.

25. 

    Employers don’t like Labour’s new employment relations package

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 11:45 am, June 30th, 2017 -  43 comments
    Categories: class war, poverty, spin, Unions, wages, workers' rights
    Tags: employment relations, panic, policy, spin, the sky is falling

    In shocking news, it turns out that employers don’t like Labour’s new employment relations package. They (and the usual suspects) are running lines about a return to the 1970s. A time when workers’ share of the wealth was higher, poverty was lower, inequality was lower, and workers had more rights. Sounds awful.

26. 

    National Ltd™ – Rotten To The Core From Top To Bottom

    Written By:  BLiP -  Date published: 7:25 am, June 26th, 2017 -  25 comments
    Categories: uncategorized
    Tags: bill english, national

    . . . And we have this state of affairs because John Key and now Bill English, in concert with the rest of the National Ltd™ crew, have been lying to us every day for the past nine years . . .

27. 

    What the National Party president and board knew

    Written By:  weka -  Date published: 6:40 am, June 26th, 2017 -  21 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, bill english, national
    Tags: bill english, liar, lies, National Party Board, Parliament, Todd Barclay

    Newsroom has another investigative piece on the Barclay debacle. This is not only about a single MP and a lying Prime Minister. It’s also about the governing structure of the political party in charge of running the country, and who was involved in the coverup and dishonesty.

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    National’s conference – no policy – drowns in Billshit

    Written By:  Anthony R0bins -  Date published: 12:47 am, June 26th, 2017 -  21 comments
    Categories: bill english, election 2017, national, useless
    Tags: #debarclay, #dirtypolitics, billshit, conference, coverup, incompetence, nine long years, out of ideas, policy, Todd Barclay

    National’s conference was supposed to be a tour de force, setting them up for the home stretch to the election. Instead it was empty of policy or vision, and coverage was drowned in a rising tide of Billshit.

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    HDPA on the rot that goes to the top

    Written By:  notices and features -  Date published: 10:04 am, June 25th, 2017 -  30 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, accountability, bill english, national
    Tags: dirty politics, heather du plessis-allan, rot goes to the top, Todd Barclay

    Heather du Plessis-Allan asks why Barclay is taking the fall alone, when – just as with dirty politics – the rot goes to the top of the National Party.

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    Bill English is no John Key

    Written By:  mickysavage -  Date published: 9:00 am, June 22nd, 2017 -  37 comments
    Categories: bill english, Dirty Politics, john key, national, same old national, spin, the praiseworthy and the pitiful, you couldn't make this shit up
    Tags: Todd Barclay

    During Dirty Politics John Key was able to stand in front of a group of reporters and with complete confidence make a series of statements the veracity of which was dubious.  Bill English has shown this week that he does not have that ability.

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    Why is Whaleoil being pathetic or paid on Toddy?

    Written By:  lprent -  Date published: 11:19 am, June 21st, 2017 -  32 comments
    Categories: Abuse of power, bill english, politicans, Politics
    Tags: #dirtypolitics, cameron slater, Parliamentary services, Todd Barclay, whaleoil

    We may never know if Todd Barclay was one of the Simon Lusk / Cameron Slater Dirty Politics ‘clients’. However if you read the Whaleoil today, he has finally received instructions (umm) figured out the spin line … Whatever…