This might look like smart politics for National to draw the Greens in with National but a more primary motivation might be that English/Joyce and co. are desperate to form a coalition with anyone, otherwise as individuals, they’ll certainly lose their power within the party in the inevitable shakeup.
Labour’s petition against National’s attack on Kiwi’s rights including the right to a break at work is growing like topsy with over 22,000 people signing up to it in the last day and a half.
The leadership contest has kicked off with a bang.
Andrew has a lower public profile than some of the other candidates seeking the Labour leadership so here’s some info on him and why I’ll be voting for him.
David Parker is likely to join the leadership race tomorrow…
Update: Confirmed – David Parker is standing.
Musings from Captain Obvious
David Cunliffe has announced his final big policy. It’s called NZ Inc and it’s a bloody smart move.
The English faction is now calling the shots inside the National party.
The weak and transparent smear attempt from National says more about them than David Cunliffe.
The Insurance Council and National are desperately trying to pour cold water on Labour’s popular earthquake court policy.
For the second time in as many weeks, David Farrar has lied to his readers over at kiwiblog.
Labour will set up a special earthquake court to speed up the claims process for Cantabrians waiting on insurance settlements.
David Farrar has quite a thing for Winston Peters…
There’s been a lot of heat on Labour from the usual beat-up suspects and not a lot of light until now.
!!BREAKING NEWS!! John Key is locked in a fierce battle with….a previous government.
National’s pandering to foreign money is disturbing their supporters
There is no housing crisis. Everything is fine.
Judith Collins has her back against the wall. Weeks of intense scrutiny finally took its toll which culminated in her crazy attack of […]
As Judith Collins enters her second day of lying low it’s instructive to look at how the establishment Nats are slowly and strategically removing Collins’ influence so they can ditch her.
As interest rates crank up in debt-laden NZ, we’re about to reap the consequences of 5 years of do-nothing, anti-worker, National government.
The first rule of politics is learn how to count. And, as much as we would all like to see Labour and the Greens govern by themselves, 13 and 32 don’t add up to 50
That’ll be why, when the Greens came to Labour with a plan to campaign together, Labour said no.
David Farrar has let slip that he has been privy to information which is only intended for select committee members. Tim Watkins […]
According to some in the MSM National has already won the election.
But given they’ve come to that conclusion they seem oddly unconcerned about what it would actually mean…
As reported on TV3 news a few nights ago, John Key said that “I have a very strong sense of how precious children […]
As I’ve previously pointed out, John Key’s National government only serves the privileged elite.
But their policy of only favouring the favoured few is not only venal, it’s really stupid economics as well.
So the latest from National is Judith Collins ‘promoting’ her husbands’ company and Amy Adams promoting the interests of river-polluting Canterbury dairy farms when she herself owns Canterbury dairy farms.
Naturally, neither minister can see any problem with this.
Update: And now Nathan Guy – National’s immigration minister…
On the odd occasion when the media has picked up on the magnitude of a big issue, eg GCSB, Key was under the spotlight and he was sweating…
When I first heard a Labour staffer had accidentally sent Amy Adams’ office a document on ICT my first thought was “here we go again.”
But then I heard Adams’ weird and defensive interview on Checkpoint. So I took a look at the actual paper and realised just why she was so awkward and nervous on what should have been an easy political hit.
