Among the biggest winners of the election will be the Pike River families. Labour and Greens support re-entry. Gower on National: “They will not go into Opposition over this… They will literally go back on everything they’ve said in order to get Winston into power.”
National is about to execute a flip flop on immigration, not for any constructive reason, but to try and head off Winston Peters’ big issue.
Back in 2003, John Key had an interesting take on whether it was appropriate to send troops to Iraq.
My favourite indicator for a deep recession is showing up. The applications and enrollments for colleges and graduate programs appears to be significantly […]
California’s top court has ruled that a state law banning marriage between same-sex couples is unconstitutional, accrording to a BBC report. The state’s […]
With hints that regional fuel tax could be put on the “go slow” list, along with parts of the emissions trading scheme, it […]
John Key: ‘ my lawyer actually does those things clearly [he] had the wrong information.’ That’s how Slippery John explained why legal documents […]
On Monday, I wrote ‘Stay tuned for National’s next assets policy, due out sometime next week.’ It seems I miscalculated. Here’s what Key […]
Mike Moreu provides insight into the art of turning news events into images – using as one example his latest piece on asset […]
Regular readers will remember that one of John Key’s excuses for he ‘we would love to see wages drop‘ quote was that the […]
You do have to wonder sometimes what it takes to get a straight answer out of a National party MP. Having recently given […]
Bill English must just be sitting there in his office cringing as he listens to interviews like these. Sean Plunket spoke to Slippery […]
Further to Dancer’s post below, this morning on Breakfast John Key claimed that National never had a deadline for settling Treaty claims and […]
Mr Key announced new National policy this morning. After a morning TV interview National now have no date to settle historic Treaty Claims: […]
From John Key’s State of the Nation speech in January: The Youth Court currently has the power to place young offenders in youth […]
You think they’d learn. Wikiscanner reports that someone in Parliament has been busy – busy expunging potentially embarassing facts about a variety of […]
Kiwis are showing their canny side in the way we’ve been flocking to sign up to KiwiSaver – now over 400,000 strong and […]
National have just backed down on their opposition to interest free student loans. Back in 2005 Key called this ‘a policy that tells […]
The entry reads: These won’t be comfortable to wear or even be long-lasting but they do come with an interesting provenance. They are […]
Yet another policy inoculation today from the Nats, this time on paid parental leave. Judith Collins is now “generally not against it” and […]
As the National Party concentrated on its own political health with yet another policy u-turn inoculation, this time on the need for an […]
In the Weekend Herald today, Fran O’Sullivan opines: “By drawing out his opponents before they even noticed Key was using the type of […]
Seems John Key’s not the only politician who’s had his previous statements on Iraq come back to bite him recently. Here’s Dick Cheney […]
For those who asked for them here are the conflicting quotes from John on climate change. As Goff points out in the video […]
“New Zealand troops should be alongside their British and United States allies as they continue their invasion of Iraq” … “Blood is thicker […]
