DPF takes the moral highground
As you will know National Party Blogger David Farrar gave us a wee razzing for publishing an out of date list of Bob […]
Politics
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Apologies for Burqa Bob
It would appear David Farrar is deeply concerned about the amount of traffic his mate Bill has been drumming up for The Standard […]
Massey to go the way of Saddam and lose statue?
New Zealand Labour movement activists will support Irish unionists – the political sort – who wish to remove Reform Prime Minister Massey’s statue […]
Burqa Bob to stand in Tauranga
After much speculation, National MP Bob Clarkson has finally announced he will be standing again in Tauranga, apparently to work on housing affordability […]
An emerging threat to MMP?
After Brash and the extreme right were exposed in The Hollow Men the Nats changed their leader hoping for a fresh start. What’s […]
Same old faces, same old tactics
Well it looks like Free Speech Coalition founder Cameron Slater has taken a break from stalking John Minto and photoshopping underage bloggers’ faces […]
They just don’t learn
I see the Free Speech Coalition hasn’t learned anything from the ramshackle PR fiasco that was their launch and have posted up another […]
Shadbolt campaign funded by Hollow Men
Remember how I asked who was funding Tim Shadbolt’s campaign to “bring down the government”? Turns out the Southland Times was interested too […]
Discussing “constituency matters” with the Brethren
Today’s Age gives a few insights into “constituency matters” the Brethren discussed with John Howard from 2003 to 2006, the last about the […]
An expert opinion
A reader just sent in this scan from the letters section of Today’s Herald.
Nandor’s not standing
Green MP Nandor Tanczos announced today that he will not be putting his name forward as a candidate for this year’s election. Here’s […]
Too far.
People often ask us at The Standard why we don’t post under our real names. Tonight Whaleoil has provided a damn good answer […]
Key and crabs
Now I know many of us are still in holiday mode for awhile longer but did it strike anyone else as a little […]
With all the charm of Slough
Paul from The Fundy Post has done a rather humorous review of John Key’s holiday home in Success Court, Omaha Beach, as featured […]
Follow the money
I see Shadbolt is back on the blackmail bandwagon again with today’s Herald claiming he’s aiming to break the Electoral Finance Act (though […]
What’s National cooking up for 2008?
Well, I saw my first Farrar billboard in the real two days ago and I gotta tell you I laughed. I was with […]
ODT ad from today
Granny Herald (finally) outs Julian Robertson as National donor
In a front-page article about New Year’s honours focussing on expatriate Kiwi Owen Glenn’s contribution to the Labour Party, Auckland University, and numerous […]
Shadbolt jailed for bullshit
Some years ago Mayor Shadbolt spent a week in Mt Crawford prison for refusing to pay a fine for saying “bullshit” in public. […]
A photo finish
I have glimpsed the future. I know how Election 08 will play out. It will be a thriller, going down to the wire. […]
Roy Morgan poll
Here’s the latest Roy Morgan poll. Nothing too unexpected, but interesting to see the Greens and NZ First both over the 5% threshold. […]
John Key hearts Canada
Move over Australia, John Key has a new heart-felt love: Canada. On his recent ‘heartland’ tour to discover what country folk thought, Key […]
National disses minimum wage
National’s comments on the minimum wage show a party that has no answers on how to close the wage gap with Australia. Just […]
National has worst behaved MPs
Trevor Mallard’s had all the press but it’s the National Party MPs who have been battling it out all year for top spot […]
Billboard shambles
Here’s some coverage from TV1 last night on what’s looking more and more like a PR disaster for National, Farrar and their wealthy […]
DPF’s bloody good deal
There’s plenty of comment about Davey’s/National’s Billboards here and at Blogblog so I’ll not bore you with my analysis of these dreadful things. […]
Same old National
The National Party have reverted to type. They’re back to stoking the politics of fear and division. Anyone who thought that things might […]
Electoral Finance Bill passes
PS. If none of this is making sense try lolcats (Wikipedia) or lolnatz (Kiwiblogblog). Also worth noting that Dunne pulled his support at […]
Dunne folds under pressure
According to reports, Peter Dunne has withdrawn his support for the Electoral Finance Bill at the last minute. Newsroom says: Mr Dunne said […]
Mallard pleads guilty to fighting charge
The Dom reports that: Cabinet minister Trevor Mallard has escaped an assault charge over his altercation with National MP Tau Henare by pleading […]
Polls
From The Dom: A One News Colmar Brunton poll last night has National on 54 per cent, 19 points clear of Labour. A […]
Renewal, renewal, renewal in Palmy
Today the hotly contested four horse race to become the candidate for Palmerston North (the position being left vacant by the tenth hottest […]
Two new faces for Labour line up
Yesterday two more bright young things were confirmed as Labour candidates for the 2008 general election: Kate Sutton in Epsom and Hamish McDouall […]
Two drunk backbenchers
A mate of mine had a rather interesting run-in last night with a couple of drunken Tory backbenchers. Here’s what happened: Last night […]
National reopens Selwyn race
Local Nats don’t want David Carter as their candidate for Selwyn. Looks like the threats, intimidation and bullying tactics used to get him […]
John Key DVD – Director’s cut
John Key is the epitome of “style over substance” and his DVD showed us just how desperately he wants to be everything to […]