Posts Tagged ‘dirty politics’
Emmerson – What they did in the shadows
Written By: - Date published: 9:36 am, September 10th, 2014 - 16 comments
Dirty Politics Watch I
Written By: - Date published: 6:10 pm, September 9th, 2014 - 72 comments
A new series on happy mischief and paying back double.
Perceptions of National’s government
Written By: - Date published: 12:57 pm, September 6th, 2014 - 114 comments
There is how John Key and a few of his acolytes like to think of his government. Then there is how everyone else now does. The many ministers who have been abusing their position, were caught and ‘resigned’. Now we can see the true nature than lurks beneath. A vote for National is a vote for Cameron Slater.
Slater deleting posts
Written By: - Date published: 7:56 am, September 6th, 2014 - 66 comments
Cameron Slater is deleting posts from his Whaleoil blog. Down the memory hole. Anything he deletes is, of course, of interest in the current dirty climate. Most of it relates to Cathy Odgers / Cactus Kate, but there are exceptions (written by or paid for by others?).
Polity: The big lie
Written By: - Date published: 8:05 am, September 5th, 2014 - 44 comments
Rob Salmond looks at the Big Lie technique coming from the right and being gormlessly swallowed by some pundits. That Labour and the left aren’t talking about policy. They have been brimming over with policy. The right have vague possible ideas. Pundits are too obsessed in dirty politics to look at the detail of actual policies.
Local Bodies: Whale Oil and Tolley Attacked Principals and Myself
Written By: - Date published: 7:50 pm, September 4th, 2014 - 25 comments
The stench of National’s dirty politics is reeking like decayed blubber. Today it appears that Anne Tolley appears to have used Cameron Slater to attack critics of their flawed education policies. The question is how much taxpayers funds did the ministers use on their vindictive support for the countries most despicable ‘blogger’?
Whaledump twitter account suspended
Written By: - Date published: 9:56 am, September 4th, 2014 - 163 comments
Whaledump’s account on Twitter has been suspended.
Someone is trying to lock the stable door after the horse has bolted.
Update: @Whaledump2 is providing more dumps and No Right Turn & lprent comment on it.
Blogging isn’t the problem Mr Key
Written By: - Date published: 1:49 pm, September 3rd, 2014 - 26 comments
John Key has been pushing the “they blog on the left too” line, but he’s deliberately missing the point.
lprent: I add my little bit at the end about pseudonyms
Dirty politics in Dunedin
Written By: - Date published: 12:49 pm, September 3rd, 2014 - 42 comments
No. Not Pete George. Instead Andrew Geddis appears to be up to his neck in the mire of organising “Debating ‘Dirty Politics’: Media, Politics and Law”, at a ‘scholarly’ debate on Friday from 1pm-4pm. It is a long-winded scholarly debate inside work hours. But it will be streamed on youtube and hopefully not only live.
Nasty negative Nats
Written By: - Date published: 10:02 am, September 3rd, 2014 - 20 comments
Disgraced ex minister Collins calls Cunliffe a moron. Another John Ansell negative billboard campaign coming. The Nats are nasty as well as dirty. If only there was some positive alternative…
Emerson on Collins Enquiry
Written By: - Date published: 9:07 am, September 3rd, 2014 - 14 comments
Emerson’s cartoon today in the Herald.
Puddleglum: We no longer have a Prime Minister
Written By: - Date published: 11:47 am, September 2nd, 2014 - 34 comments
There’s an excellent post at The Political Scientist I want to highlight, plus a few other of today’s Dirty Politics reads…
Whitewash inquiry
Written By: - Date published: 8:16 am, September 2nd, 2014 - 41 comments
I know, let’s put on a production of Hamlet, but leave out the role of the Prince of Denmark.
NRT: More OIA skullduggery from National
Written By: - Date published: 2:50 pm, September 1st, 2014 - 8 comments
Another day, and more evidence the National government is manipulating the OIA process. Judith Collins’ office processed an Official Information Act request in just two days. The problem here isn’t that someone got their response within two days – its that other people didn’t…
Why Is John Key Not Compelled to Give Evidence Under Oath?
Written By: - Date published: 12:13 pm, September 1st, 2014 - 75 comments
I have today sent an open letter to the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security to ask why Mr Key is not required to attend her inquiry and to give evidence under oath. The letter is attached.
All the way to Key
Written By: - Date published: 11:19 am, September 1st, 2014 - 30 comments
All credit to Guyon Espiner for another hard-hitting interview with Key on Morning Report today. Espiner tries to get a straight answer from Key over his personal contacts with Slater. Tries and tries and tries, to no avail. It is clear that Key, personally and through his office, is up to his neck in dirty politics.
Dirty Filthy Red Herring
Written By: - Date published: 10:54 am, September 1st, 2014 - 105 comments
Big fish and little fish.
Wakeup call for the media – has Slater done us all a favour?
Written By: - Date published: 8:02 am, August 31st, 2014 - 171 comments
National’s dirty politics, for all its corrosive damage, also marks an opportunity for NZ. An opportunity to take stock, recognise such tactics for what they are, and reject them. An opportunity to clean up both politics and the media’s coverage of it.
Fairfax Media’s polling on Dirty Politics
Written By: - Date published: 9:07 am, August 30th, 2014 - 44 comments
The latest Dominion Post contains survey data on people’s responses to Dirty Politics but attempts to manufacture a message by quoting selected interviews suggesting that Labour and not National have been hurt by Hager’s revelations. The headlines though are that half of all New Zealanders think less highly of John Key and 7.9% of voters are considering changing their vote. National should be afraid.
Peters v Collins
Written By: - Date published: 1:53 pm, August 29th, 2014 - 69 comments
Peters is standing by his claim that camp Collins approached him about working with her as PM. Peters says he will “swear an affidavit”, strong language indeed, and Collins has every reason to lie. Why is she still a Minister anyway?
I think that most New Zealanders…
Written By: - Date published: 12:35 pm, August 28th, 2014 - 17 comments
Our PM is fond of telling us all what we think. In the wake of Dirty Politics he is working it overtime, telling us all that we believe his spin. Interesting then to get some actual data on what (extrapolating from a sample) most New Zealanders really do think. Many thanks to the Horizon polling people for putting this up on line.
Judith Collins raises doubt about which dimension she occupies
Written By: - Date published: 8:06 am, August 27th, 2014 - 39 comments
Judith Collins claims to have been exonerated of claims that she breached the rights of privacy of a public servant by giving his details to Cameron Slater. There is one problem with her claim. She is totally wrong. Update: RNZ is now reporting she is backing away from her claim.
Condemning the obvious
Written By: - Date published: 12:46 am, August 27th, 2014 - 143 comments
Of course I (and other Standard authors) condemn lyrics that incite violence, and any and all threats to the children of politicians (who are completely out of bounds). Does this even need saying? But – Farrar, his little fan club, and the moral high ground? – it is beyond hypocrisy. There is no equivalence between the actions of a disenfranchised, angry few and the systematic abuse of democracy and decency undertaken by National’s dirty politics.
Anne Salmond on our tarnished democracy
Written By: - Date published: 1:30 pm, August 26th, 2014 - 37 comments
New Zealander of the Year, Dame Anne Salmond, on how dirty politics tarnished our democracy.
Dirty pictures
Written By: - Date published: 9:14 am, August 26th, 2014 - 28 comments
Cartoons and other images of Dirty Politics.
Interview with “Key”…
Written By: - Date published: 6:42 am, August 26th, 2014 - 16 comments
Billed as “Decision 2014 Part 1”, Here’s Michael Hurst staring as John Key’s office…
Tax cut cynicism
Written By: - Date published: 6:20 pm, August 25th, 2014 - 52 comments
According to the PM, Bill English saying there won’t be tax cuts was both true and untrue at the same time, like a fiscal Schroedinger’s Cat.
Just answer the questions John
Written By: - Date published: 10:00 am, August 25th, 2014 - 41 comments
John Key has taken to answering relevant questions about Dirty Politics by refusing to answer them. But these questions go to the heart of the issue of whether he is fit to be New Zealand’s Prime Minister and deserve to be answered.
Slater’s privacy conundrum
Written By: - Date published: 7:50 am, August 25th, 2014 - 31 comments
For me the funniest thing that happened last week was Cameron Slater proudly announcing that he’d put in a privacy complaint about the someone hacking his data. Three days later he finds out that he was the target of a privacy act prosecution for similar acts.
We Are Asking the Wrong Question
Written By: - Date published: 1:18 pm, August 23rd, 2014 - 63 comments
The Prime Minister has so far managed, by the skin of his teeth, to avoid censure by claiming that he was not personally involved in the disreputable behaviour about the SIS OIA that has come to light. But he has been able to do so because we have been asking the wrong question.
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