Why National really hates proportional electoral systems
These data, taken from the Elections NZ site, show election results since National’s inception up until the last First Past the Post (FPP) […]
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Chilling
The Search and Surveillance Bill is making its way though the bowels of the government law making process. This is a terrible law, […]
Brash’s mea culpa
Strange mea culpa from Don Brash on the foreshore and seabed in today’s Dom. He doesn’t go as far as to apologise for […]
Nats flying high, on your dime
Why is our agriculture minister spending as much as the Prime Minister on international travel? David Carter has spent $72,000 on international travel […]
Remember who they’re fighting for
This memo was sent by the Insurance Council to its members in 2005 but it may as well have been sent this week. […]
National’s polling hypocrisy
Having previously led the charge on the Labour polling story, John Key has gone very quiet on the issue now that a former […]
Send Nats to Scandinavia
Want to send some Nats to Scandinavia? Me too! The one above should be self explanatory. Support Sign On and send John on […]
Aussie Minister shows guts, foresight and concern; ours… not so much
Australia’s Federal Industry Minister Kim Carr has criticized Bridgestone’s closure of its Australian and New Zealand operations and the 1000 redundancies it’ll bring. […]
One of these things is not like the other VIII
One of these things is not like the other, One of these things is not quite the same… Can you guess which one […]
The urgency of love
One thing about love is that what you abhor or hate in others you tolerate, even admire, in the object of your affection. […]
Key’s divide and rule to cut wages
John Key says that if school support staff want pay-rises then teachers should sacrifice the ones they bargained for. Tell him to get […]
Clueless on ACE
Night classes Adult and Community Education (ACE). An incredibly cost effective and valuable part of the NZ education sector for decades. The ACE […]
Aroha is love, you can give it away…
“You can get away with anything, as long as you’re respectful about it” – former Maori Party strategist Matt McCarten on National’s dealing […]
Talk about politics
On RNZ’s Nine to Noon today Andrew Campbell rips the shit out of National‘s grotesque mismanagement of the Rugby World Cup fiasco and […]
National’s repeated abuse of democratic process
The current National led government clearly regards the processes of democracy is an inconvenience to which it must pay lip service, but nothing […]
Something fishy in Bakshi case
Police have ended their investigation in National MP Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi’s immigration scam after the principal accuser left the country in mysterious circumstances. […]
Surveillance state
One of the most dishonest, yet most successful tactics of National in opposition was to rant on and on about the “Nanny state”. […]
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Talk about politics
RNZ’s Kathryn Ryan talks to Matthew Hooton and Andrew Campbell about the failures of Key’s trip to NYC, English’s terminal status and contenders […]
Legal vs. Moral
There’s an old lawyer joke: “When the facts are on your side, bang the facts. When the law’s on your side, bang the […]
Billalice in Wonderwelly
Things must be getting decidedly trippy for Deputy PM Bill English about now, and not in a good way. While his glorious leader […]
Stupid hypocritical ACE cuts
Night classes – Adult and Community Education (ACE). An incredibly cost effective and valuable part of the NZ education sector for decades. The […]
Secret ballots for strikes
Tau Henare has put a private members’ bill in the ballot that would require ballots by union members on strike action to be […]
Get it in writing
Watching the Maori Party get done over by National is getting painful. The MP thought they had a good faith dialogue on the […]
Bullying the media
National are up to their old tricks again – bullying the media to try and shut down critical comment. This time the culprit […]
A long time between drinks
The latest Roy Morgan poll puts National down 5% and Labour up 4%. Still a big gap, but it seems at last New […]
Nick Smith’s dirty dealing
Labour’s Charles Chauvel has released the paper records of Labour’s attempts to agree a bi-partisan ETS with National. In total, Labour presented three […]
“What else can I do?”, asks Blinky Bill.
We told him here months ago – acknowledge what everybody knows: that he lives in Wellington with his family, and he should claim […]
The bigots beneath
Last night, Sandra Goudie, the big-mouth of the National Party caucus, said the words out loud that the Nats usually keep in their […]
Short term thinkers
It never ceases to amaze me what short term thinkers National are. The plan (with the Maori Party) to gut the ETS highlights […]
Taxpayer shafted again
National seems to be making a bit of a habit of shafting the taxpayer. Before the election we were promised significant tax cuts, […]
No deal
Hot Topic has obtained a copy of a draft memorandum of understanding for a meeting on the ETS that was meant to take place […]
Maori Party to help Nats kill carbon emissions cap
Nick Smith has just announced a deal with the Maori Party to replace the existing Emissions Trading Scheme with a do-nothing joke. The […]
Be bold on smoking
Very good piece by Anthony Hubbard in the Sunday Star Times: The Maori Party is pressuring the government to take tough new anti-smoking […]
A rort is a rort is a rort
And by any other name it smells as bad. John Key has annouced a reform of the rules for ministerial accommodation allowance. A […]
Snake oil
I’m surprised that the Maori Party have rolled over so easily on the issue of Maori seats on the Auckland council. I will […]