Written By: - Date published: 7:38 am, May 23rd, 2015 - 92 comments
Those pesky knuckleheads.
Written By: - Date published: 6:17 pm, May 22nd, 2015 - 2 comments
No Right Turn points out that the answer given by John Key in response to an Official Information Act request was completely inadequate legally. It doesn’t matter if he was in his guise of the infamous Parnell Pony Puller, or PM as he sometimes likes to call himself. He isn’t allowed to advise Rachael Glucina of the NZ Herald to attack his victim and then hide it behind his official role.
Written By: - Date published: 2:42 pm, May 21st, 2015 - 59 comments
Interestingly two stories have broken during the presentation of the Budget. John Campbell has quit TV3 and a further hair incident involving John Key has hit the news.
Written By: - Date published: 4:38 pm, May 20th, 2015 - 29 comments
Andrew Little in Parliament being all poetic about the night before budget day.
Written By: - Date published: 10:17 am, May 20th, 2015 - 15 comments
Bill English tells us that the promise that they won the election on – that they’re the only Masters of Finance who could balance the government books (because that’s all that’s important…) – now isn’t at all important to the public.
And Bill tells us: they’ll get their surplus when I give it to them, and they’ll be grateful for it.
Written By: - Date published: 10:13 am, May 19th, 2015 - 22 comments
Creepy Key has dodged a question from the Green Party about any contact he may have had with the New Zealand Fox News Herald in the lead-up to Rachel Glucina’s hit job on the cafe worker who’s ponytail he pulled.
Written By: - Date published: 9:30 am, May 19th, 2015 - 29 comments
The Herald has praised David Cunliffe with changing public opinion about the introduction of a capital gains tax. And rubbished John Key’s suggestion that the announced limited tax on increasing housing values is not a capital gains tax.
Written By: - Date published: 5:26 pm, May 18th, 2015 - 14 comments
John Key is now arguing that black is white – that a Tax on Capital Gains isn’t a Capital Gains Tax.
“Typical politician” many will say – and that shows how far John Key’s skills have fallen.
Written By: - Date published: 8:42 am, May 18th, 2015 - 39 comments
According to John Key the proposed tax on capital gains if a property is sold within two years of purchase is not a capital gains tax, there is no housing bubble in Auckland, and the proposed new tax does not represent a complete about face by the Government.
Written By: - Date published: 11:45 am, May 17th, 2015 - 196 comments
National appears to be doing an about face on a Capital Gains Tax for housing.
Written By: - Date published: 10:14 am, May 17th, 2015 - 52 comments
The latest attacks on the left involves the right claiming that left activists are too angry and hurting labour’s chances in the UK as well as New Zealand.
Written By: - Date published: 6:08 am, May 17th, 2015 - 64 comments
Back in March 1988 David Lange had a clear idea about what lay ahead for New Zealanders as the long-term consequences of Roger Douglas’ psychopathic worshipping of the metaphysical Invisible Hand gradually materialised.
Written By: - Date published: 2:59 pm, May 15th, 2015 - 59 comments
Labour’s Finance spokesperson Grant Robertson gave his pre-budget speech this morning. “So, what would a responsible government be doing in the Budget next week?”…
Written By: - Date published: 9:23 am, May 15th, 2015 - 23 comments
I’m all in favour of holding Key accountable for his actions in general, but not when the victim herself has asked McCready to desist. McCready should respect her wishes.
Written By: - Date published: 8:28 am, May 15th, 2015 - 23 comments
Chris Finlayson has described a comment made by John Key as “wild eyed stuff” on National Radio,
Written By: - Date published: 5:01 pm, May 14th, 2015 - 13 comments
Spy watchdog Cheryl Gwyn has announced an investigation into circumstances surrounding possible spying on our allies by the GCSB in support of Tim Groser’s tilt for the top WTO job.
Written By: - Date published: 12:17 pm, May 14th, 2015 - 25 comments
Given that Amanda Bailey asked McCready to withdraw his case, this is good news.
Written By: - Date published: 10:30 am, May 14th, 2015 - 68 comments
One of the biggest political deceptions in our lifetime? Or just an honest mistake by our noble Finance Minister?
Written By: - Date published: 9:22 am, May 14th, 2015 - 24 comments
Pulling ponytails and calling people names – I guess it’s true, the PM is 11 years old.
Written By: - Date published: 9:03 am, May 14th, 2015 - 54 comments
Why is it left to the Reserve Bank to try and tackle the property bubble? It’s true – this government is recklessly complacent.
Written By: - Date published: 11:34 am, May 13th, 2015 - 28 comments
Stuff are running a live chat with Andrew Little at noon.
Written By: - Date published: 8:42 am, May 13th, 2015 - 174 comments
“National’s talk now is about how achieving surplus was an “artificial target” and that getting a surplus is “like landing a 747 on the head of a pin.” A lot of effort has gone into glossing over the broken promise. But I see it for what it is – one of the biggest political deceptions in a lifetime.”
Written By: - Date published: 7:02 am, May 12th, 2015 - 40 comments
Two opinion pieces yesterday make uncomfortable reading for Key.
Written By: - Date published: 9:20 pm, May 11th, 2015 - 54 comments
An excellent summary reposted with permission from Dim-Post. “Seems to me that one of Labour’s biggest problems – both here and in the UK – is that they’re faced with an opponent that is (a) better resourced than them and (b) uses those resources to make themselves far, far better at politics than their left-wing opponents.”
Written By: - Date published: 10:55 am, May 10th, 2015 - 164 comments
The English Election campaign and the results felt like a rerun of the New Zealand 2014 election campaign. Slick Crosby Textor designed attacks on Labour’s stability and on the leader and an imbalance of resources contributed to the result in both cases. How does the left counter this?
Written By: - Date published: 9:58 am, May 8th, 2015 - 11 comments
113 more jobs to go at Solid Energy’s Stockton Mine. Bill English killed Solid Energy, these job losses are his.
Written By: - Date published: 11:53 am, May 6th, 2015 - 19 comments
Someone is trying to fabricate the ‘truth’, but it isn’t Snowden and the people reporting him.
Written By: - Date published: 9:00 am, May 6th, 2015 - 30 comments
Two politicians with very similar names and practically identical, terrible excuses for their lies. But does it mean the honeymoon’s over for John Key?
Written By: - Date published: 8:08 am, May 5th, 2015 - 49 comments
If Key survives the next few weeks Collins will likely have missed her chance until after the next election.
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