A big week in politics. The rail system is back in public ownership as KiwiRail, Nicky Hager exposed Brand Key as a Crosby Textor production, National was forced to reveal that it was secretly planning to privatise the ACC scheme, the Incomes Report showed poverty rates continue to fall back to levels they were before National came to power in 1990 and incomes continue to rise, and National allies organised a ‘truck strike’ to embarrass the Government but which was strangely underwhelming in the end.
Here are our favourite posts of the week:
Misdirection
But the mother of all misdirections, the one which is probably framed and hanging on Crosby Textor’s office wall of fame, is the ‘stolen emails’ misdirection. Remember that? [more]
Busted
Nicky Hager’s piece in today’s Sunday Star Times has confirmed what we all suspected: Crosby Textor are the creators of Brand Key… [more]
John does a Don
RDU’s Kate Gorgeous asked John Key back in November 2007, ‘Have you got any advisers round now that are seen in The Hollow Men?’. Here’s John Key’s reply: [more]
Merrill Lynch: Nats will privatise ACC
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out National’s telling the public one thing and its backers in the insurance industry another on this one… [more]
Mr Key, where is your ‘positive, ambitious’ campaign?
when was the last time you can recall Key saying anything positive at all? [more]
Poverty falls, more to be done
Unquestionably, Labour has done well on poverty and incomes, restoring poverty to the low levels that existed before the disaster of the rightwing revolution in the 1980s and 1990s [more]
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