National still hate women
Despite women being 51% of the population, and it being women who won National the last election, they are still showing their contempt […]
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same old national
Key’s female trouble
Key is obviously lying about having an unavoidable commitment in Taupo keeping him from Melissa Lee’s election night do. He would tell us […]
F*ck tha police…
…that seems to be National’s plan as it moves to cut 10% of the police vehicle fleet (why are so many of National’s […]
Here we go again
In the 1990’s the National government of the day dealt with recession by cutting spending. The tragic result was to suck cash out […]
History repeats for Mark Thomas
The irony is that Melissa Lee’s campaign manager, Mark Thomas, is no stranger to campaigns that start off with a hiss and a […]
Higher education
Turns out Richard Worth’s not the only one with a passion for flying. Tertiary Education Minister Anne Tolley has been joyriding in helicopters […]
Who’s zooming who?
The Herald reports: Last week John Key used poor United States sales of the new BMW 7-series – 10 were sold in February, […]
Mayday Mayday, Worth’s bought it and I’m losing altitude – Groser out
Richard Worth, OBE, is now in very serious trouble having been snared in what looks like untruths about using his Ministerial portfolio to […]
Stink line
Now “PC gone mad” has been used to the point where even people who think mimicking Tui’s “yeah right” slogan is cutting edge […]
Clawback
That’s John Key speaking about Labour’s new fourth week of leave legislation back when the Nats thought they were going to win in […]
Redistributing the wealth
In a speech to the International Fiscal Association Conference today, Revenue Minister Peter Dunne said the Government’s goal over the next 18 months […]
90 axed at TVNZ
In what’s turning out to be the gift that just keeps on giving for National, the Recession Bogeyman is now being blamed for […]
A bunch of clowns
Poor old Nick Smith. Not only is he stuck peddling long-disproved lies about ACC but now it seems he can’t even get a […]
National to increase foreign ownership
Newstalk ZB reports: The Prime Minister is keen to open the door to foreign investors. In a speech to the Act Party conference […]
See no evil
I’ve been meaning to write something about the private prisons bill for a couple of days as it’s a recipe for barbarity. But […]
Espiner nails it
In his blog today Colin Espiner points out how National has quickly moved a lot further to the right than they portrayed themselves […]
The Wall Street Journal gets it
Despite all the claims of “centrist” and “centre-right” none other than the the Wall Street Journal has pointed out that John Key’s government […]
No free trade deal
The Obama administration has halted free trade talks with New Zealand. On one hand free trade is simply increased freedom of capital and […]
Flashback from way back
Anyone else read Audrey Young’s interview of Bill English in the New Zealand Herald and get a massive feeling of deja vu? Here’s […]
So what’s the plan again?
Labour got a fair amount of mileage during the election campaign out of harassing National about its lack of distinct policy. I guess […]
A topic for the NACT talk-fest. Needs a slogan for success.
My favourite indicator for a deep recession is showing up. The applications and enrollments for colleges and graduate programs appears to be significantly […]
Look! Over there!
The latest secret tape has come out and it’s a classic example of the face of the National Party that John Key doesn’t […]
Hypocrite
Watching Key tour Progressive Enterprises today was bad enough but watching him claim to support those workers in the leaders debate was sickening […]
National’s ‘redneck element’
In the heat of the Lockwood Smith controversy yesterday, some of our right-wing readers had a go at John A for posting a […]
Nats on Pacific workers in the 70s
Galumalemana Alfred Hunkin says Lockwood Smith’s statements about Pacific workers are an example of the sorts of comments made in the 70s. Here’s […]
Scratch a Tory…
…and you still reveal a bigot, it seems. Here is National’s Immigration spokesperson, Lockwood Smith, (he who likes to swallow dead fish) on […]
Wouldn’t you be embarrassed if…..?
I have to declare – yes, I am an urban liberal. So I would be embarrassed if a member of my family said […]
Tories still bigots at heart
When I saw this guy using the guise of a Youtube debate question to attack Clark on her appearance, I felt sorry for […]
Hooten shows his true colours
The Herald reports that producers had to interrupt the filming of today’s Eye to Eye because Mathew Hooten called Winston Peters a “f***ing […]
In case you missed it
Here’s the footage from 3News last night on the fresh National Party cocktail revelations. Bill English’s comments again serve to reinforce the message […]
No, Bill.
I felt a pang of pity for Bill English tonight as I watched TV3 roll out another secret tape. After all, “winning is […]
Costs of the Nats tax cuts – commentators’ views
Here’s a smattering of what some of the commentators are saying: Gordon Campbell: Putting tax cuts ahead of science and research neatly underlines […]
Nats desperate to silence grassroots activists
An email from a reader: “A friend and I were putting up some Vote with Both Eyes Open posters on Lambton Quay the […]
Key on scrapping four weeks annual leave
Thanks to the wonders of Scoopit I’ve just come across this old TVNZ footage of John Key’s first day as National’s finance spokesman. […]
Key still wishes we had invaded Iraq
Helen Clark made foreign policy judgement a campaign issue today when she told a Grey Power meeting that if New Zealand had invaded […]
