Written By: - Date published: 7:00 am, April 12th, 2015 - 84 comments
There’s nothing particularly wrong with Bryce Edwards’ article except that it ignores how National Ltd™ Police Ministers have successively sat by and done nothing in response to the on-going police failings.
Written By: - Date published: 10:36 am, April 11th, 2015 - 67 comments
John Key and National have staked a huge amount of their credibility on returning the country’s books to surplus this financial year. Looks like they are going to fail.
Written By: - Date published: 8:39 am, April 11th, 2015 - 140 comments
So it’s not just loonie leftie bloggers noting the political element to the attack on Campbell Live.
Written By: - Date published: 7:58 am, April 10th, 2015 - 186 comments
Written By: - Date published: 8:03 am, April 8th, 2015 - 172 comments
Trouble is brewing in National’s ranks. In a series of recent tweets occasional Standard commenter Matthew Hooton outlines his reasons for now opposing John Key’s Government.
Written By: - Date published: 8:19 am, April 7th, 2015 - 309 comments
As New Zealand’s dollar approaches parity with Australia’s a responsible Government should be pondering the implications and acting in the country’s best interests. No such luck in Aotearoa …
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, April 4th, 2015 - 90 comments
John Armstrong in the Herald and Tracy Watkins in the Dominion Post have both written opinion pieces on the implications of Winston Peters’ win in Northland which reach very similar conclusions.
Written By: - Date published: 5:48 pm, April 2nd, 2015 - 24 comments
Turns out that “Planet Key” is not an election advertisement after all.
Written By: - Date published: 1:00 pm, March 31st, 2015 - 21 comments
Denis Tegg has persuaded the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security to inquire whether the GCSB is conducting mass surveillance on the Kafkaesque grounds that the legislation allows this to happen if a party ought reasonably to expect that the communication may be intercepted.
Written By: - Date published: 11:14 am, March 31st, 2015 - 25 comments
Simon Bridges announced yesterday the release of the 2015 block offer. Potentially oil companies could be drilling in deep sea pristine environmental areas off the West Coast where the endangered Maui’s Dolphin lives. He calls for a “mixed balance” of energy generation. But all this means is that he wants the good mixed with the bad.
Written By: - Date published: 7:45 am, March 31st, 2015 - 55 comments
Key ran out on failed candidate Mike Osborne in Northland, just like he ran out on Melissa Lee in Mt Albert.
Written By: - Date published: 10:58 pm, March 30th, 2015 - 64 comments
Congratulations to Labour for a very clever strategy in the Northland by-election – lulling and gulling John Key into thinking they were going to run a conventional proxy-partyvote campaign, where National would have the upper hand. Key, the rockstar politician, also thought Andrew Little would be on the training wheels. He got that badly wrong; Little’s handling was superb.
Written By: - Date published: 11:01 am, March 30th, 2015 - 33 comments
Hey, all you folk angry with Aussie cricket team sledging – how do you put up with John Key PM?
Written By: - Date published: 7:39 am, March 30th, 2015 - 86 comments
There are many specific reasons why National lost Northland, but arrogance is the thread running through all of them.
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 pm, March 28th, 2015 - 310 comments
Is anyone else experiencing a bit of political shellshock?
Written By: - Date published: 7:01 pm, March 28th, 2015 - 201 comments
A post to allow for the discussion of the Northland Buy Election result.
Written By: - Date published: 7:17 am, March 27th, 2015 - 98 comments
“John Key heckled in Northland” – ouch.
Written By: - Date published: 9:00 am, March 26th, 2015 - 109 comments
The most egregious feature remains the sheer banality. Its like John Key can’t help himself. Because most National Ltd™ voters really don’t care and because the MSM just accepts the deceit as “one of those things,” he’s been able to get away with it scot-free for more than six years.
Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, March 25th, 2015 - 166 comments
Vote Winston (did I say that?) Update: Former Labour Cabinet Minister Colin Moyle thinks the same.
Written By: - Date published: 9:30 am, March 24th, 2015 - 34 comments
Anne Tolley was told about the prosecution of Beverley Sepuloni under the no surprises policy nearly a month before the news became public. Release of this information makes you wonder why we cannot be told the date that the Government was told about Mike Sabin’s difficulties.
Written By: - Date published: 12:01 pm, March 21st, 2015 - 101 comments
I guess that John Key wanted to raise the idea of a flag change to divert attention from his misdeeds and lack of anything positive from his terms in office. I can’t think of any other particular reason for bringing it up. But the referendum appears to lack the option of dumping the flag. Why have it at all?
Written By: - Date published: 10:13 am, March 19th, 2015 - 37 comments
National is obviously deeply afraid of losing the Northland By Election as is clearly shown by the liberal application of pork barrel politics, the misuse of statistics, the use of Ministerial resources to help campaigning and now the bullying of a local group seeking to have a local road improved.
Written By: - Date published: 11:30 am, March 18th, 2015 - 30 comments
Yesterday the mask slipped and John Key admitted the real reason our deployment to Iraq is only for two years: so he can win an election.
Written By: - Date published: 8:31 am, March 18th, 2015 - 25 comments
GST wasn’t Key’s only bungle yesterday. I/S at No Right Turn reports…
Written By: - Date published: 7:24 am, March 18th, 2015 - 66 comments
Gotcha politics is all good sport when the opposition makes a mistake. How about Key’s self-inflicted blunder?
Written By: - Date published: 9:47 am, March 14th, 2015 - 44 comments
Winston Peters has challenged John Key to a debate in Northland.
Written By: - Date published: 8:36 am, March 14th, 2015 - 140 comments
You can only bungle and lie for so long before people get sick of it. Seems like it’s all starting to catch up with Key at last.
Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, March 12th, 2015 - 127 comments
I kid you not but John Key thinks that Dotcom and Hager prevented him from announcing the Northland bridge decaboondoggle. And Sabin is having no effect on the by election campaign.
Written By: - Date published: 5:00 pm, March 10th, 2015 - 41 comments
John Key and his MPs were acting like they’d scored a real hit on Andrew Little in Question Time. The reality is … not so impressive.
Written By: - Date published: 12:04 pm, March 10th, 2015 - 61 comments
It’s hammer time! Prime Minister John Key apologises for not being a man …
Written By: - Date published: 12:03 pm, March 10th, 2015 - 102 comments
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