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In the Home of Labour

Written By: - Date published: 5:59 pm, April 25th, 2016 - 48 comments

Still out of touch and running out of time.

NZ – The underarm bowlers of climate change

Written By: - Date published: 8:34 am, April 23rd, 2016 - 18 comments

NZ under the Key government has hit new depths of ignominy as per capita the world’s biggest climate change cheat. And we plan to keep using the fraudulent “credits” we have purchased.

Key launches war on P

Written By: - Date published: 9:22 am, April 22nd, 2016 - 89 comments

“My message to the gangs is clear. This Government is coming after your business and we will use every tool we have to destroy it. We will be ruthless in our pursuit of you and the evil drug you push.”

NRT: Bill English wants to end your privacy

Written By: - Date published: 7:11 am, April 22nd, 2016 - 85 comments

I/S at No Right Turn the “data supermarket” and privacy concerns. “The government wants to be able to effectively spy on and database everyone, so they can save a few dollars here and there.”

Oravida and the water that no one owns

Written By: - Date published: 10:44 am, April 21st, 2016 - 86 comments

Oravida is in the news again.  It is exporting hundreds of millions of dollars of fresh water and the cost to the authorities of $500 per year.

John’s Key’s “lawyer” is not a lawyer

Written By: - Date published: 9:00 am, April 21st, 2016 - 199 comments

John Key, explaining why he had an account with tax avoidance specialists Antipodes Trust Group, said he used the firm because his long-term friend, Ken Whitney, is a principal at the firm and has been his private lawyer for many years. The flaw in that theory is that Whitney is not currently a lawyer.

Bowron on a tired government

Written By: - Date published: 2:53 pm, April 18th, 2016 - 349 comments

Jane Bowron writes in the Dominion Post: “Two things happened this week that could signal the beginning of the end of John Key and his government.”

Opinion pieces on Labour

Written By: - Date published: 12:29 pm, April 17th, 2016 - 51 comments

Two opinion pieces on Labour this weekend offer a full spectrum from insight to inanity.

Twyford on solutions to the housing crisis in Auckland

Written By: - Date published: 7:11 am, April 15th, 2016 - 41 comments

As Nick Smith flounders about uselessly, here are extracts from Phil Twyford’s speech on solutions to the housing crisis in Auckland.

Offers of help flood in to Bill English

Written By: - Date published: 3:05 pm, April 14th, 2016 - 53 comments

Bill English’s abominable comment that young Kiwi men are “pretty damned hopeless” has caused quite a reaction. But here’s an unexpectedly positive one.

Kiwi workers are pretty damned hopeless – says Bill English

Written By: - Date published: 4:03 pm, April 13th, 2016 - 205 comments

National are now so convinced of their invulnerability that they have taken to actively insulting us. You couldn’t make this stuff up.

Can we trust John Key?

Written By: - Date published: 7:50 am, April 13th, 2016 - 334 comments

John Key’s relationship with Antipodes Trust Group Limited will need some explaining.

How much do you give John?

Written By: - Date published: 7:30 am, April 13th, 2016 - 30 comments

Maybe this is why John Key does not want to release his tax returns.

Key’s deposit with company specialising in foreign trusts

Written By: - Date published: 4:40 pm, April 12th, 2016 - 66 comments

Well well well.

Whitewash a certainty in tax haven review

Written By: - Date published: 12:31 pm, April 12th, 2016 - 77 comments

John Key’s solution to the exposure of his ludicrous claims that New Zealand has full disclosure on foreign trusts nor is tax haven, is to appoint an expert in tax avoidance as the so-called “independent expert” to review the laws. As fallout from the “Panama Papers” has escalated and the prime minister’s claims are seen […]

PM forced to release his tax details

Written By: - Date published: 8:08 am, April 12th, 2016 - 46 comments

Not our PM, the UK’s David Cameron. Our PM is under pressure to do the same, but refuses. He claims that all his taxes are “beyond reporach”. But he has form (TranzRail shares) on lying about his financial affairs.

Netflix tax – another one for you peasants

Written By: - Date published: 2:30 pm, April 11th, 2016 - 20 comments

While Key is fighting to make sure our country remains a haven for his rich mates, he’s about to hit you and I with yet another tax. I don’t have a problem with taxes, but I do take issue with the hypocrisy.

Key changed the law to extend NZ as a tax haven

Written By: - Date published: 6:51 am, April 11th, 2016 - 289 comments

John Key personally directed the 2011 law change that turned NZ into an attractive tax haven.

It’s part of a complicated context involving his failed plan to turn NZ into a “financial hub”.

Key attends secret lunch to raise cash for flag change campaign

Written By: - Date published: 10:36 am, April 9th, 2016 - 102 comments

The Herald has reported that John Key helped with fundraising for the flag referendum by attending a private lunch with six wealthy donors.

One of these things is not like the others XIII

Written By: - Date published: 8:15 am, April 9th, 2016 - 31 comments

One of these things is not like the other, one of these things is not quite the same.
Can you guess which one is not like the other, can you tell me before I finish the game?

A Song from John (All your questions answered)

Written By: - Date published: 3:18 pm, April 8th, 2016 - 4 comments

Okay. So rumoour has it that John was merely a co-writer.

Brownlee is dragging Canterbury down

Written By: - Date published: 11:34 am, April 8th, 2016 - 85 comments

The Christchurch rebuild gets its second fail grade from Treasury. And what of the rebuild work that has been done with failed reinforcing steel?

Which National Party muppet appointed Peter Boshier to be Chief Ombudsman?

Written By: - Date published: 9:16 am, April 8th, 2016 - 15 comments

One of the few things the Nats normally excel at, is selecting a suitably unqualified flunkey to ensure an office they have no regard for is suitably undermined – witness the Race Relations Commissioner. Why then Boshier, whose only previous was an eight year stretch as a highly competent and effective Principal Family Court Judge? […]

TPPA review time slashed

Written By: - Date published: 8:30 am, April 8th, 2016 - 38 comments

The Government has reduced the time the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Select Committee has to report back on submissions on the TPPA from one month to five days.

Panama vows action – NZ closes its eyes

Written By: - Date published: 7:03 am, April 8th, 2016 - 18 comments

The cycle of corrupt money. 100% tax haven. And we’re being put to shame by Panama.

A cartoon for Planet Key

Written By: - Date published: 3:14 pm, April 7th, 2016 - 2 comments

panama refugees people money planet key

Kiwibank sale to NZ Super, ACC privatisation by stealth

Written By: - Date published: 11:58 am, April 7th, 2016 - 52 comments

The transfer of part of Kiwibank to the Cullen Fund will inevitably lead to its privatisation, no matter what the Government says.

Panama tax rort stirs world leaders but not Key

Written By: - Date published: 8:00 am, April 7th, 2016 - 18 comments

The Panama Papers highlight a significant problem for the countries of the world.  The actions of the 1% is robbing countries throughout the world of funds needed to run their countries and underlines that the capitalist system is based on greed.  Most leaders see this but not John Key.

Obama calls for international tax reform – what will Key do now?

Written By: - Date published: 6:31 am, April 7th, 2016 - 122 comments

Key has made it clear that he doesn’t care that NZ is operating as an international tax haven. When The Greens called for action he called them “barking mad”. But last night President Obama called for international action on tax reform. What will Key do now?

What could be causing the ‘crisis of distrust’ in government?

Written By: - Date published: 8:11 am, April 6th, 2016 - 43 comments

It’s a bit of a mystery really.

Andrew Little on the Panama Papers: NZ is a soft touch

Written By: - Date published: 1:41 pm, April 5th, 2016 - 27 comments

Video of Andrew Little discussing the Panama Papers and John Key’s response.