Politics

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Key’s special announcement

Written By: Tane
Date published: - 37 comments

John Key has now been leader of the National Party for a year. But while his salesman’s smile and general novelty factor have […]

Ramshackle PR fiasco

Written By: Tane
Date published: - 175 comments

It’s a bit late, but a reader who was at yesterday’s anti-EFB march has mailed us through some pics from the rally. As […]

Family fist

Written By: all_your_base
Date published: - 25 comments

The Dom reports that “A father who spanked his eight-year-old son… for misbehaving… is one of the first to be convicted of assault […]

Roy Morgan poll

Written By: Tane
Date published: - 22 comments

There’s a new new Roy Morgan poll out and it’s not good news for Labour. Gary Morgan says: “The recent plunge in support […]

More hypocrisy from National

Written By: Tane
Date published: - 53 comments

It’s interesting to see National is attacking Peter Davis, the PM’s husband, over a letter he wrote to the NZ Herald about the […]

Granny’s blue woolly slippers

Written By: John A
Date published: - 21 comments

Granny’s campaign against the Electoral Finance Bill started with a bang and ended with a whimper. On Monday there was a banner headline […]

Fairfax poll

Written By: all_your_base
Date published: - 70 comments

The Dom Post reports that: National’s support slid from 50 to 45 per cent in a Fairfax Media-Nielsen poll released today. Labour jumped […]

Party like it’s 1999

Written By: Tane
Date published: - 64 comments

If we needed any more reason not to let National take us back to the 90s, I think this might be it. Via […]

Tell the panel Don & I am not a liar

Written By: Eddie
Date published: - 10 comments

Spotted yesterday in the Westin Hotel in Auckland’s Viaduct Basin by our orbiting surveillance satellite & Don Brash in a job interview line. […]

Pretend polling

Written By: all_your_base
Date published: - 32 comments

Dodgy online polls seem to be becoming a staple of political reporting here in New Zealand. The story earlier this week on poll […]

Prats in the Nats on China’s miners

Written By: John A
Date published: - 26 comments

How’s this for small-minded prejudice from National Party backbencher Kate Wilkinson in a press release today complaining about the $84,000 dollars for a […]

Granny’s wail

Written By: Tillerman
Date published: - 27 comments

Today the New Zealand Herald’s waning tantrum over the Electoral Finance Bill has been relegated to Page 5. Perhaps Granny has paused, had […]

Landslide sliding away

Written By: Eddie
Date published: - 16 comments

The Roy Morgan poll results have been included in the latest rolling poll from Molesworth and Featherston and shows that National – despite […]

Take the blinkers off Granny

Written By: John A
Date published: - 32 comments

Granny Herald tries to defend itself against National Party bias by saying it ran a headline “I am not a liar” over Brash […]

Burqa Bob speaks out

Written By: Tane
Date published: - 19 comments

Bob Clarkson’s never been one of the sharper tacks on the National party backbench, his only contributions to the debate being his infamous […]

Speech: Labour is the Party of Ideas

Written By: Tane
Date published: - 10 comments

The other day we published an extract from Evan Thornley’s speech to the Labour Party conference. We’ve finally managed to get hold of […]

What’s National got to hide?

Written By: Tane
Date published: - 54 comments

During the debate over the Electoral Finance Bill John Key’s made a lot of noise about National’s willingness to clamp down on anonymous […]

Tell the full story Audrey

Written By: John A
Date published: - 3 comments

Grannywriter Audrey Young’s story headlined “Exclusive Brethren’s email sets stage for Electoral Finance Bill” is more National Party spin. The Brethren’s email to […]

NZ Herald openly campaigning against Govt

Written By: Tane
Date published: - 36 comments

So the NZ Herald has finally admitted it’s running a campaign against the government. Check out this ridiculous, chest-thumping, self-congratulatory piece from their […]

Quoting out of context

Written By: all_your_base
Date published: - 19 comments

DPF and the National Party have made much of a Helen Clark quote unearthed from her conference speech in 2000 on tax cuts. […]

Record low unemployment: 3.5%

Written By: all_your_base
Date published: - 3 comments

From Ruth Dyson’s press release: The latest Household Labour Force Survey quarterly results from Statistics NZ confirm the Labour-led government’s employment policies and […]

Roy Morgan poll

Written By: Tane
Date published: - 37 comments

There’s a new Roy Morgan poll today, and it’s good news for the left. Gary Morgan says: “The vote for the Labour Government […]

More gossip from the right

Written By: Eddie
Date published: - 25 comments

Crown Prosecutor Simon Mount is rumoured to be replacing Bob Clarkson for National in Tauranga next election. Which is a bit rough considering […]