Posts Tagged ‘no right turn’
NRT: Look! More terrorists!
Written By: - Date published: 2:57 pm, August 2nd, 2013 - 14 comments
I/S at No Right Turn questions the legal status of Key’s “warrants”.
NRT – Transmission Gully: A $2 billion scam
Written By: - Date published: 9:52 am, July 11th, 2013 - 13 comments
I/S at No Right Turn on a $2 Billion Transmission Gully scam…
NRT: The problem of SOEs
Written By: - Date published: 3:36 pm, June 20th, 2013 - 7 comments
A second repost (with thanks) from I/S at No Right Turn. This time on SOEs.
NRT: Some “reforms”
Written By: - Date published: 3:32 pm, June 20th, 2013 - 2 comments
I/S at No Right Turn is on a roll today. Here he is on the gambling amendment.
NRT: The spy bill
Written By: - Date published: 1:57 pm, May 7th, 2013 - 7 comments
The new GCSB spy bill is out. For the short version, as @lyndonhood commented: “Admittedly it will be easier for the GCSB to act within their legal boundaries if they don’t have any”. For the long version see the excellent I/S at No Right Turn…
NRT: National hates families
Written By: - Date published: 2:48 pm, April 29th, 2013 - 26 comments
I/S at No Right Turn on the Nats’ excuses and choices as they oppose the extension of paid parental leave.
NRT: MMP review: Running down the clock
Written By: - Date published: 10:55 am, April 26th, 2013 - 1 comment
I/S at No Right Turn on the strange disappearance of the Electoral Commission recommendations on MMP. Soon it will be too late to have changes in place for 2014…
NRT: The PCE on RMA “reform”
Written By: - Date published: 11:29 am, April 4th, 2013 - 8 comments
I/S at No Right Turn on the undermining of the Resource Management Act…
NRT: Insanity
Written By: - Date published: 10:18 am, March 19th, 2013 - 7 comments
I/S at No Right Turn on the insanity of scrapping the home insulation programme.
NRT: Climate change – Locked out
Written By: - Date published: 9:05 am, February 23rd, 2013 - 15 comments
I/S from No Right Turn describes another brick in National’s wall of stupid. “New Zealand will be locked out of the international carbon market in retaliation for our refusal to sign up for Kyoto’s Second Commitment period.”
NRT: Unconstitutional and dangerous
Written By: - Date published: 10:29 am, February 15th, 2013 - 8 comments
I/S at No Right turn writes on the Ombudsman’s report which finds some of the Nats’ plans for charter schools to be unconstitutional and dangerous.
NRT: Pillaging the Rakaia
Written By: - Date published: 12:14 pm, February 7th, 2013 - 35 comments
No Right Turn with the latest on National’s ongoing annexation of Canterbury.
NRT: Not even pretending anymore
Written By: - Date published: 1:20 pm, January 21st, 2013 - 66 comments
I/S at No Right Turn on the Nats’ contempt for democracy in Canterbury. Elections remain on hold so that the commissioners’ agenda can be completed without unwelcome input from urban representation.
NRT: Reported back
Written By: - Date published: 3:23 pm, December 12th, 2012 - 4 comments
The Transport and Industrial Relations Committee has reported back on David Clark’s Holidays (Full Recognition of Waitangi Day and ANZAC Day) Amendment Bill, with the National majority recommending it not be passed. The bill will now go back before the House, where its fate will be in the hands of Peter Dunne. Will he vote for it or not?
NRT: Taking on our local tax cheats
Written By: - Date published: 10:37 am, November 30th, 2012 - 26 comments
I/S at No Right Turn asks why the government is letting rich multinational companies get away with exploiting tax loopholes. Here’s an idea – close the loopholes and spend the revenue on schools.
NRT: More dictatorship from Brownlee
Written By: - Date published: 11:06 am, November 23rd, 2012 - 11 comments
No Right Turn on the Nats’ contemplating yet another way to trample on democracy in Christchurch.
NRT: Absolute insanity
Written By: - Date published: 12:04 pm, November 16th, 2012 - 36 comments
No Right Turn on Novopay and the sacking of payroll staff.
NRT: This week’s distraction
Written By: - Date published: 3:25 pm, November 12th, 2012 - 5 comments
No Right Turn on this week’s offering from the Nat roulette wheel of political distractions…
Sexist NZ
Written By: - Date published: 2:29 pm, October 25th, 2012 - 10 comments
Two recent posts from NRT on aspects of sexism in NZ, and a scathing reply to Business NZ from Sue Moroney.
NRT: Imperial over-reach
Written By: - Date published: 10:55 am, October 15th, 2012 - 10 comments
Should have reposted this last week – NRT on a bizarre and scary US legal opinion. Thoughtcrime will be next…
NRT: Convenient amnesia
Written By: - Date published: 1:00 pm, October 3rd, 2012 - 115 comments
What can one say to the latest. No Right Turn says…..
“So, having told everyone that he wasn’t briefed about the Kim Dotcom spying fiasco until September, it now turns out that John Key was told about it back in February. ” … “That whistling noise is the PM’s credibility shrinking even further. His amnesia is just too convenient here to be believed”
Updated: Added links to his next two posts.
NRT: Extended
Written By: - Date published: 9:14 am, September 8th, 2012 - 25 comments
No Right Turn on the Nats’ continuing contempt for democracy in Canterbury.
NRT: Numbers out of his arse
Written By: - Date published: 1:25 pm, August 22nd, 2012 - 31 comments
I/S at No Right Turn on Key’s made up numbers.
NRT: Privileged!
Written By: - Date published: 12:12 pm, July 19th, 2012 - 7 comments
I/S at No Right Turn on yet another example of misleading Parliament – but it doesn’t matter because “the current Speaker has ruled that a Member can only mislead the House in ‘a statement of some formality'”.
NRT: Climate change: Cross-purposes
Written By: - Date published: 12:15 pm, February 3rd, 2012 - 48 comments
No Right Turn has a look at two of the incoming minister briefings impacting on climate change. They are incoherent and it is clear that neither ministry talks to the other. If it wasn’t affecting a important long term issue, it’d be as funny as a Yes Minister episode. But since it does, it just highlights the growing incoherence of this incompetent government and their increasing politicization of the civil service.
NRT on Democracy 101
Written By: - Date published: 12:31 pm, November 29th, 2011 - 20 comments
No Right Turn takes Key to task on his perception of a “large majority”.
NRT on the most important issue
Written By: - Date published: 12:50 pm, November 2nd, 2011 - 39 comments
NRT on the issue that is most important to Kiwis. It isn’t the economy.
Gutting the state housing system
Written By: - Date published: 3:26 pm, June 28th, 2011 - 25 comments
No Right Turn on the Nats’ cynical plans. “And its here that National’s true goal becomes apparent: they’re planning to effectively gut the state housing system…”
Broadcasting allocations
Written By: - Date published: 3:20 pm, June 1st, 2011 - 21 comments
No Right Turn asks an interesting set of questions about the state allocation of broadcast media time.
“..if we think TV and radio broadcasting is so influential that it must be restricted to produce a level playing field between parties – which I agree with – why do we allocate it so it produces the opposite?”
“Mum and Dad investors”
Written By: - Date published: 2:41 pm, May 28th, 2011 - 23 comments
No Right Turn on National’s spin about “Mum and Dad investors”.
Climate change: Farmers can afford the ETS
Written By: - Date published: 8:52 am, May 25th, 2011 - 45 comments
No Right Turn on the cost of the ETS to farmers. Forecast to be paid over $8 per kilo for milk solids, what cost do you guess that the ETS subtracts from that sum?
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