Written By: - Date published: 11:13 am, July 21st, 2026 - No comments
Shane Jones underscored Christopher Luxon’s weakness by telling him publicly that he needed to “take off your kneepads” when receiving a visit from foreign leaders without repercussion.
Written By: - Date published: 9:41 am, July 14th, 2026 - 64 comments
The latest RNZ Reid Research Poll suggests that the chances of Christopher Luxon needing a new job after the next election are increasing.
Written By: - Date published: 5:57 pm, July 9th, 2026 - 21 comments
Minister of Transport Chris Bishop has now finally admitted that National’s 2023 election promises in transport were “very ambitious, ” and pushed many of them into simply future unfunded ideas, at devastating economic cost.
Written By: - Date published: 1:14 pm, July 9th, 2026 - 7 comments
I was struck by just how out of touch Simeon Brown is with the frustration of residential consumers of electricity. The ever rising prices, the frequent outages, and the stupidity of our electricity market. National’s fast-track doesn’t address any of that, nor their minuscule solar plan. Labour’s plan is a more useful fast-track to transform our real productive economy. Far more so than just exporting profits offshore from mining and data centres
Written By: - Date published: 12:27 pm, June 27th, 2026 - 6 comments
This week Tama Potaka announced the Government will backtrack on a proposal that would have allowed for the sale of up to 60% of the country’s conservation land. But Shane Jones then completely undermined the announcement by talking about using Conservation land for mining.
Written By: - Date published: 3:52 pm, June 24th, 2026 - 21 comments
National’s recent Kiwisaver announcement, expected to cost $110 million a year, only pays back some of the savings from its erlier Kiwisaver cuts expected to save $610 million a year, and appears to be signs ofincreasing panic.
Written By: - Date published: 12:04 pm, June 17th, 2026 - 10 comments
In the United States and in New Zealand the current administrations wish to speed up the finalisation of election results by supressing the right to vote.
Written By: - Date published: 8:58 am, June 15th, 2026 - 16 comments
It is strange for a party in power finishing its first term to call a media event on a Sunday just so it can attack the opposition. But this is what happened yesterday.
Written By: - Date published: 10:19 am, June 12th, 2026 - 12 comments
National, a party of supposed economic geniuses, will spend billions on an LNG terminal that is not needed, billions on roads of National significance whose business cases are appalling, and attack Labour for a policy that is cheap, will help ordinary people, reduce fuel dependancy and greenhouse gas emissions.
Written By: - Date published: 8:33 am, June 5th, 2026 - 31 comments
On May 21st, 2026 National’s Chris Bishop did his best to lose the 2026 general election and his Hutt South electorate.
Written By: - Date published: 9:37 am, June 1st, 2026 - 30 comments
The timing of the recent suggestion by Chris Penk that New Zealand should review its nuclear free policy makes you wonder if the Trump Administration has applied pressure to do so.
Written By: - Date published: 1:36 pm, May 22nd, 2026 - 6 comments
The coming oil shock is not just about oil. The future is baked in, and its not good. National’s backward-looking budget will make it much worse.
Written By: - Date published: 8:19 am, May 22nd, 2026 - 32 comments
How cruel do you have to be to raise rents for some of our poorest citizens during a cost of living crisis?
Written By: - Date published: 9:48 am, May 21st, 2026 - 13 comments
Wellington is being deliberately targeted by National and it is destroying the third largest region of New Zealand.
Written By: - Date published: 1:24 pm, May 19th, 2026 - 73 comments
National today intensified efforts to alienate the entire public service by announcing that a further 9,000 public positions will be culled if, god help us, they are returned to power.
Written By: - Date published: 10:01 am, May 12th, 2026 - 26 comments
The Government’s plans to retrospectively change the law to stop a case seeking damages for climate damage caused by heavy emitters is a constitutional outrage and shows not only contempt for the rule of law but also contempt for any action taken by a citizen against climate change.
Written By: - Date published: 9:47 am, May 10th, 2026 - 38 comments
National has engaged in a Dirty Politics style attack on TVNZ reporter Maiki Sherman in an attempt to cower the media in election year.
Written By: - Date published: 11:01 am, April 30th, 2026 - 23 comments
Christopher Luxon has responded to Winston Peters releasing emails suggesting Luxon wanted to support the US invasion of Iran by dressing him down publicly. The Government is clearly in crisis.
Written By: - Date published: 1:26 pm, April 21st, 2026 - 36 comments
Any time a political leader has to put their position to a vote, they become a dead pigeon. David Lange knew winning the vote didn’t end the matter.
Written By: - Date published: 10:38 am, April 21st, 2026 - 21 comments
Multiple leadership coups have been attempted on Luxon, but even as the PM flails on 17% approval, he and his loyalist Ministers say unruly MPs will be disciplined. Who are the latest?
Written By: - Date published: 8:33 am, April 21st, 2026 - 19 comments
Christopher Luxon will today face his sternest challenge as leader as repeatedly bad polls are having their effect on National’s caucus’s morale.
Written By: - Date published: 1:24 pm, April 19th, 2026 - 33 comments
National Party Minister Chris Bishop claims that Luxon has the full support of all Caucus members in the latest development of the Luxon coup attempts
Written By: - Date published: 3:17 pm, April 18th, 2026 - 36 comments
My hunch is that Luxon stands down as Prime Minister, to be replaced by Mark Mitchell.
Written By: - Date published: 12:13 pm, April 17th, 2026 - 12 comments
Is this the final straw for Luxon? And what legacy has he left behind?
Written By: - Date published: 9:42 am, April 17th, 2026 - 34 comments
National is leaking like a sieve. Either a coup is under way or a group of disgruntled MPs are busily attempting to destabilise Luxon’s leadership. Either way this is not good for National.
Written By: - Date published: 4:46 pm, April 11th, 2026 - 36 comments
An ideological reflex to an economic challenge has severe limitations by design.
Written By: - Date published: 10:15 am, April 6th, 2026 - 48 comments
As this Government’s inaction over the oil crisis becomes more pronounced more and more people are noticing that Christopher Luxon is missing in action.
Written By: - Date published: 5:38 pm, April 5th, 2026 - 19 comments
Christopher Luxon this week showed strong leadership by demoting Chris Bishop for a coup against Luxon that was staged six months ago.
Written By: - Date published: 12:13 pm, April 2nd, 2026 - 31 comments
The Government’s complete reluctance to do anything about the approaching oil crisis is in stark contrast to the approach adopted by more progressive administrative governments overseas.
Written By: - Date published: 2:57 pm, March 25th, 2026 - 31 comments
The Government’s targeted fuel support is pork-barrelling.
Written By: - Date published: 1:16 pm, March 25th, 2026 - 5 comments
National is fundraising and for $10,000 you can buy access to sit with the PM
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