Nats’ leaked health policy full of holes
Having just read the National health policy and background paper released by Labour, a few things stand out to me. 1) There is […]
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Nat health policy: more money for rich, fewer for poor
Jim Anderton is releasing elements of National’s health policy at Question Time: – Pharmac’s independent decisions could be overruled by politicians. – Private […]
Which seems more likely?
Multiple spies, whom National has been unable to catch, and a series of ‘gaffes’ and accidents involving sensitive papers? Or a bitter faction […]
Video: Nats head in sand on environment
Boosting their green credentials is not proving as straightforward as National would like, as this video that’s doing the rounds shows.
Key breaks flip-flop world record
Can’t put it any better than Jafapete has: Seems that John Key has done it again. Announced policy off-the-cuff and back tracked later. […]
How many leaks to sink a ship?
This is really getting pretty serious now – a fourth National party policy has been leaked to Labour, who have made it public. […]
Video repeat: Leaking Hollow Man
Apologies if you’ve seen this before – but I had a reader request a replay.
Another leak
God, another leak from National, this time their research, science and technology policy. From Mallard’s press release: “Mr Key should not only be […]
Spin-busting: ‘Labour has no policy, either’
John Key is running a line that first emerged in the rightwing blogs a few months ago: ‘Labour doesn’t have any policy, either’. […]
Nats’ adman an objectivist fruitloop
If you’ve caught yourself asking why the Nat’s billboards are so bad, then Jafa Pete has the answer. Their adman, Glenn Jameson, is […]
The sincerest form of flattery
The Greens billboards have shown how it’s done – striking and simple without being dishonest or simplistic. Maybe National could imitate them: Maybe […]
Ashcroft’s donations a worry
Lord Ashcroft is a worry. Not just to John Key, who had to admit that he didn’t know why Ascroft had met him […]
Now, that’s better
Look. Over there!
A friend has just rung to excitedly inform me that National’s conservation policy has now also been released by Trevor Mallard. That means […]
Fewer bureaucrats
OK. They were laughably bad before but now they don’t even have the grammar correct. If you can count it, you use fewer: less […]
The hypocrisy of the Right
Today, we have National’s Judith Collins attacking the Government because the number of Kiwis on the unemployment benefit rose from 17,710 to 20,465 […]
National bleats about wages, still has no solutions
The National Party are once again trying to make political capital over the Trans-Tasman wage gap, even though they created it in the […]
Shambles
The leaks from within the National camp just keep on coming. Last night Trevor Mallard had the privilege of releasing National’s environment policy […]
Why didn’t NZF use Nats’ donations playbook?
This business with donations from the Spencer Trust going to New Zealand First but not being declared. I find it hard to credit […]
Video: Nats wave goodbye to blue sky
Newly up from 08wire There’s something very powerful about that music and image combination….
Why the rush?
We are, at a legal maximum, 72 days away from the election. The tradition is that the date is announced at least six weeks […]
Beyond parody
National’s new billboard. It’s like when your Dad tries to rap.
It just gets worse
Just when you thought National’s billboard campaign couldn’t possibly get any weaker, reports emerge that their next one will say: “Get youth into […]
Telco hits out at National’s fibre plan
John Drinnan in the NZ Herald: “One of the biggest challengers in the telecommunications business, TelstraClear, has attacked National Party plans for a […]
Dissection
OK, so there are limitless ways to mock the Nat’s ‘WW2 bombers flying to Chile’ billboard (send us yours to add to these […]
Ashcroft’s jet spotted in Wellington too
An astute reader just sent us this – they spotted Ashcroft’s jet parked at Lyall Bay on Saturday August 30 and managed to […]
Break open the trusts
As we’ve discussed earlier, it would be highly surprising if the investigations into NZF’s finances find any serious illegality. At worst, a failure to […]
Weak
Perhaps I’ve overestimated the National Party’s PR machine. I mean I’ve seen them run their C/T strategy pretty well and, as much as […]
ToryAid: Wastewatch (4)
Because National has abandoned its wastewatch website, we keep track of the ‘waste’ National has promised to cut to pay for those magical, […]
Whom to believe? (3)
John Key tells us that National hasn’t decided yet what it would spend its extra borrowing on, what projects would be PPPs, what […]
Franks: “grumpy Christians and whining gays”
Here’s National’s Wellington Central candidate Stephen Franks giving his view on Civil Unions. I’m not even really sure what to say about it. […]
Connell departs and praises PM
Who would have expected to read this from Brian Connell upon his departure from Parliament? In a backhander against his own party, he […]
Herald poll shows Nats’ lead collapsing
Today’s Herald-Digi poll is the first to be released that was taken after the secret agenda tape scandal had fully emerged and had some […]
Cullen on Nat apologies
Say what you will about his politics, you can’t beat Cullen for wit. Here he is on the similarities between Labour and National following Williamson’s enthusiastic […]
What else did Williamson say?
I notice that, while the Nats have attempted to play down Maurice Williamson’s promise of $50 a week in tolls, they haven’t retracted […]
Kiwis waking up to Nats’ secret agenda
According to the TV3 poll last night, 46% of voters believe National has a secret agenda. And why wouldn’t they? We’ve had Bill English […]