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This is probably the most anticipated poll in the history of New Zealand politics. If National is under 30% Bridges must be gone tomorrow, too many MPs will lose their jobs to put up with his leadership. If it is over 34% he can…
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Simon Bridges is not going down without a fight. First he outs the challenge to displace him although he does not say who the challengers are. This is left up to an anonymous source leaking the details to media. The names have been among those…
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Two posts from No Right Turn on the COVID-19 Bill. ___________________________________________________________ Friday, May 15, 2020 Some belated scrutiny On Wednesday morning, Parliament passed the COVID-19 Public Health Response Act 2020. Because it was passed under urgency, the Act did not receive the usual select committee…
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Jason Wall, a political reporter with the NZ Herald based in the Press Gallery, tweeted this earlier today, https://twitter.com/Jasonwalls92/status/1262871616851046400 That's meant to represent what Coffey said at the Epidemic Response Committee this morning. NZH also ran the same 'interpretation' on their website, in an article…
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More than 110 nations have backed a call for the World Health Organisation to investigate the origins of the Covid-19 virus outbreak. New Zealand is one of them. This is the text of the relevant clause of the World Health Assembly document on Covid-19 which…
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The vultures are gathering. When you are the leader of a party whose basic membership qualification is that they have to believe they are born to rule failure is not tolerated. The media is reporting that there will be a vote of no confidence held…
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Here at the Standard we do not normally offer advice to the National Party. Well we do but we do not expect them to take it seriously. But on this occasion as National faces annihilation in the next election we wish to endorse recent comments…
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(original poll at Newshub) I'm back with a new edition of Pollwatch for those of you who like some statistical analysis with your speculation! This was a doozy, definitely proving that UMR wasn't off-base with the leaked results and that National is giving a disastrous…
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Last night's Reid Research Newshub poll result will be reverberating through National's caucus. Their basic problem is that their support is in steep decline and this decline shows no signs of slowing down. Whatever they are doing it is not working. With support down to…
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Party Vote: Labour: 56.5%. Greens: 5.5%. NZ First: 2.7% National: 30.6% ACT 1.8% Translated to Seats: Labour: 72, Greens 7 National: 39, ACT 2. Preferred Prime Minister: Jacinda Ardern: 59.5%, Simon Bridges: 4.5%, Judith Collins: 3.1% That's a lot of unemployed National …
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Well yes Martyn, there is. Last time I looked the Greens were still needed for Labour to be leading our centre/left government. Labour's 36.9 + NZF's 7.2 =/= 50%. It equals 44.1%. Where did the other 6% come from? This is not rocket science, or…
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US comedian and political commentator Trae Crowder on the rural vote (<4 mins) https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=567019814198980
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Why are parents being told to send their children back to school this Monday? Is it because the health and welfare of children is upper most in the governments mind? Maybe the psychological impact of a child losing social contact during their formative years is…
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Just when we thought liberal democracies meant real freedom was an absolute written into human rights stone, by mid-March this year almost all OECD countries had implemented the most draconian reversal of lockdowns on every single human being at a combination of school, university, workplace,…
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In terrible news, our feline masters can both get covid-19, and they can infect other cats. Fortunately so far they have largely been asymptomatic apart from some big cats. We don't know if there can be cat to human transmission. But I suspect it is…
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A round up of the Green Party's achievements in the 2020 Budget. People often say the Greens aren't doing much, so here are some concrete examples of what they gained for the green platform. Full press releases, and details of working with Labour, are in…
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Like measles, covid-19 could become endemic. Never dying out entirely. Needing to be controlled in human denser populations into the indefinite future. This is the warning from the WHO. Speaking at a briefing on Wednesday, WHO emergencies director Dr Mike Ryan warned against trying to…
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The budget site is up. I've reproduced some of it here. Budget 2020 has also been released on the Budget website: https://budget.govt.nz. A feature of the Budget website is that it organises the Estimates documents by Minister, by vote, by department and by sector. Image from RNZ Budget speech by Robertson
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Listening to some of the complete bullshit about the legislation to move to level 2 just made me realise exactly how ignorant some people are of our history and basic science. Viruses and other diseases simply don't care about abstractions like 'liberty' or 'inhumanity' or…
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Text of a pre budget speech delivered yesterday by Jacinda Ardern. [Today] Budget 2020 will be delivered within the most challenging economic conditions faced by any Government since the Great Depression. The global COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a global economic shock not of our making,…
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National has decided to play politics with Covid 19 and is opposing the Government's attempt to pass legislation to secure level 2 arrangements. From Charlie Dreaver at Radio New Zealand: The Covid-19 Public Health Response Bill, which grants extraordinary powers to both the government and…
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