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Reposted from No Right Turn. Earlier in the month, the Greens promised to scrap the gutted and ineffective Emissions Trading Scheme and replace it with a carbon tax. The government immediately claimed that the sky would fall if we stopped subsidising polluters and allowing them to rort us. So…
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I have always been proud to be a westie. In West Auckland, or as I prefer to call it Waitakere, there is an exquisite combination of natural beauty, wonderful communities and utterly decent ordinary people. Ethnically the area is diverse. Although there are pockets of…
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Reposted from No Right Turn. Writing in the Herald, Fran O'Sullivan tells us what we all knew: that political donors have expectations, and want favours in exchange for their cash. She's too polite (and Establishment) to call it corruption, but that's what it is. Naturally, this being…
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A repost from Local Bodies about Hekia Parata attempting to sneak some fake 'consultation' on the changes to the way that schools are run. bsprout is both a teacher and list candidate for the Greens. Classroom teachers, the New Zealand Educational Institute, the New Zealand…
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For the past five years the left has pilloried Paula Bennett for her hypocrisy. She is something of a poster child for the National Party, someone to persuade the electorate that National is not full of rich white males wanting to increase their control of…
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Scott Yorke at Imperator Fish is well known for his inciteful insightful analysis of many issues. However he has really really outdone himself in this repost of his original work. With its clarion call for rioting clarity it will bring war unity to all parts…
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John Key has been making a joke of the electoral system in recent days with his support of criminal MPs and his veiled attempts to foist the crazy Conservatives on various electorates. But he was quick to pour scorn on a very popular micro-party who were less…
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There is this strange process occurring in New Zealand politics whereby right wing parties are clearly entering into accommodations and understandings but are denying that negotiations are happening. The latest example of this involves the Conservatives. Colin Craig was interviewed on Radio New Zealand this…
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Hey, we won't get in the way of a good stoush on the net about Labour's policies, in fact we will encourage it. Here is Rob Salmond's response to Idiot Savant's post at No Right Turn. NRT's post was going up later in the day,…
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Yesterday something unusual happened. In the most closely watched electorate battle in the country TV3 hosted a debate amongst the candidates and the candidate from the currently largest polling party did not show up. Unbelievable you may think but it is true. Even though he…
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This repost from No Right Turn looks at the process of National trying to rewrite political history. Yesterday John Banks accepted the inevitable and announced that he would resign from Parliament. Good. His continued presence there debased the House and brought it into public contempt, and I…
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For the second time in as many weeks, David Farrar has lied to his readers over at kiwiblog. The first lie was that David Cunliffe had pledged to change electoral law under urgency with no consensus . That is complete and utter bollocks, Cunliffe said…
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There's some good policy coming from Labour this morning to help speed up the Christchurch earthquake insurance claims and also to provide residents relief from the continual surface flooding. As reported on RNZ: audio Details can be found from Labour's website: An Earthquake Court –…
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David Cunliffe badly needs a new stump speech. On Thursday in Whanganui I heard him depress a large and sympathetic audience for ten minutes with tales of national woe, then promise a positive campaign but give no details. It is good to know that a…
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There was no alternative. Either Banks could have sabotaged National's re-election prospects or he could resign. John Banks has done the decent thing for National and announced his resignation effective from this Friday. No doubt the platitudes will now start. But as far as I am…
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It's looking very likely that John Banks will be gone from parliament by Monday. Meanwhile, several mainstream journalists, head in sand, are going to bat for John Banks, claiming he hasn't really done anything wrong with respect to the verdict of guilty for filing a…
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Reposted from Imperator Fish where Scott Yorke likes to indulge in satire. At least we hope this is satire. It seems rather hard to tell when ex-police ministers are involved. As a senior member of the New Zealand Police, I would like to respond to…
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Nate Silver (The Signal and the Noise - the art and science of prediction) and website FiveThirtyEight uses an old idea to distinguish pundits as hedgehogs or foxes. Originating with Archilochus through Isaiah Berlin to it can be summed up as "the fox knows many…
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Reposted from here. Rob Salmond at Polity looks at the latest Roy Morgan poll. Earlier this week the latest Roy Morgan poll came out. It was not good news for the left, with National up well over 50% and the Labour/Greens combination languishing below 40%.…
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In August last year, the extensions to the GCSB law was passed by parliament, by just two votes. In November last year the TICS (Telecommunications Intercept Capability and Security Bill) passed into law (again by 2 votes; those of Peter Dunne and John Banks). The…
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My initial impression was that delaying John Banks' sentencing for filing a false electoral return to the day after Parliament had finished sitting was helpful to the Government. But on reflection this has created one big headache for ACT and for Key and National. All…
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The names of 20 short listed Internet Party candidates have been published. The list has a very fresh, diverse, youthful, talented and energetic feel to it. It's hard to say more from the thumbnail sketches included for each candidate. I would like to see them…
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There's a wee bit of irony in showing a program on inequality on expensive subscriber-only TV; but nonetheless there's an excellent new series on Face TV (Sky 83). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t_HDffwU9A It's a 6 part series and the first 4 parts are on Child Povery Action Groups'…