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The funny part of all this is the Prime Minister pretending he hasn’t heard of Hager. Luxy old chap, we expect you to lie but for goodness’ sake try and make your lies halfway believable! Put some effort in.

So? You think the point is that they’re bad? Key was smart. Luxon is not. And if you think that Luxon doing this is working for National now, you’re wrong.

I’d expect that a) it will be a well-researched, readable and informative book and b) it will have very little effect on the election (See dozens of excellent books written about Donald Trump, by reputable journalists and academics. Accuracy is not …

Logical and true.

That’s actually quite funny. It shows that National pandering to the Jacindaphobes (ACT, NZF, vax, woke, rant on Kiwiblog) is not working for them at all. Luxon, who desperately needs to keep swing voters onside, attacks Winston for putting Jacinda into …

I agree that they will lean Labour if the numbers are even. But if the coalition is closer to a majority and/or National are the largest party (2 different things of course) then Luxon ruling them out means absolutely nothing. Nobody seriously believes …

“National is proposing a massive U-turn against many positions they have previously held.” An undisputed fact, and yet barely mentioned in much of the reporting. This goldfish memory news coverage is a real disservice to the voters. (insert famous …

National at 27% could mean no list MPs at all. Their problem (and it’s a big one) is that MPs in marginal electorates will fight desperately to hold their seats, against the overall swing. Nobody is going to sacrifice their own jobs for the good of the …

Graeme Edgeler (well known as a constitutional law expert) has no doubt. Straight answer: “Both, quite clearly.” MSD apologises after 30,000 benefits wrongly suspended Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

As I said, widely reported. If you don’t want to find the reports across various media because they provide evidence that contradicts your already made-up mind, that’s up to you. Another example: Minister’s job ‘untenable’ after review of MSD payment …

A better day for the opposition in the campaign today. Both 6 pm news channels featured the MSD story, Upston was hiding and (as usual) Luxon on TV is the opposition’s best asset. He can’t help being tetchy and snarky. Terrible optics. And Hipkins was …

Agree with RP. Starmer was weak and incompetent and morally wrong on a whole range of issues. His approach to Israel/Gaza was consistent with that behaviour. As was his courting of Trump, for no gain. No further motivation needs to be imagined beyond that.

Luxon plagiarises Joe Biden, who himself had plagiarised Neil Kinnock: First in the family to go to uni in ‘5000 years’: Off-the-wall ad-libs at Luxon’s final public meeting | Stuff It is a measure of the incompetence and ignorance of NZ’s political …

Shades of 2008 when some (not many) left-ish voters talked about getting NZF over 5% to keep Helen in power (Key had ruled out Peters). It didn’t make sense then, it doesn’t with TOP now. Vote for the party you most agree with, the speculative chess games …

A useful overview of the MMP overhang issue, and the fools on the Right who – like most fools – aren’t half as smart as they think they are. They want to save “useless” Maureen Pugh and other nonentities, add more recycled third-raters from NZF and …