#twyfordaccusations
The Twitter hashtag #twyfordaccusations has been set up to allow people to speculate on what other nefarious allegations will be made against Phil Twyford by Judith Collins.
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Open Mike 26/05/2018
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Daily Review 25/05/2018
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Yulia wants to go home.
Oops. Was this desire meant to be in the script?
Open Mike 25/05/2018
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Paula’s petulant parliamentary outburst
Paula Bennett stormed out of Parliament yesterday after Trevor Mallard correctly applied the standing orders and ruled out a question containing an unparliamentary term. And National has responded by questioning if Jacinda Ardern was actually described as a “silly little girl” but has refused to question its MPs.
Open Mike 24/05/2018
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Open Mike 23/05/2018
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Daily Review 22/05/2018
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David Seymour blows the dog whistle, hard
David Seymour has hit a new low by drumming up public opposition to a small social housing development planned by Housiung Corporation in Epsom by claiming some of the potential tenants may have mental health problems.
The law and order debate and the grade one tosser
The Government has announced it will not proceed with the Waikeria mega prison as part of its policy to decrease the prison muster by 30%. And the called for public debate starts off with one of the major players using a study the author of which subsequently retracted because the data he relied on was wrong.
Open Mike 22/05/2018
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Daily Review 21/05/2018
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National is all over the place on the budget
National has made a meal of its first critique of Labour’s budget with a poor performance by Simon Bridges and with four claims about the budget that are clearly wrong but which National keep repeating.
Open Mike 21/05/2018
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Doofus of the week – May 20, 2018
Aaron Schlossberg, American Attorney and Trump Supporter, and someone who thinks people speaking Spanish to each other in a New York restaurant poses some sort of existential threat to the Union is this week’s doofus of the week.
Open Mike 20/05/2018
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Fudget for Austerity
Some proposals on why we just got the budget we did.
Shouty Simon’s strange budget claim
National’s claims about Labour’s health spend suffer from the not insignificant problem that they do not make any sense when analysed.
Open Mike 19/05/2018
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Daily Review 18/05/2018
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An Existential Threat.
Is it a propaganda ploy these days to present the “utterly ridiculous” so that people, unable to engage or compute, turn away?
Open Mike 18/05/2018
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Daily Review 17/05/2018
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Industrial action is one way to increase wages
The National Party has recently been on the Government’s case for increasing strikes under their watch. But is that really a fair criticism, and does it jive well with the other things the Opposition has been claiming to value?
Open Mike 17/05/2018
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Daily Review 16/05/2018
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Democratic Party thunks on Gaza
The “lesser of two evils” speaks its mind.
Fairs fair : how to complain, how not to and why not
Phil Quin has been his usual dickheaded self on the net. Trying to bully people about material that they probably didn’t write on this site is not a way to get it looked at. For that everyone need to follow the procedures detailed in our contact page and the pages linked to it. The alternatives aren’t nice. Ask Dermot Nottingham. Updated
Open Mike 16/05/2018
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Daily Review 15/05/2018
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Sound news judgment?
The BBC thinks that depicting Jeremy Corbyn as a Russian stooge is sound news judgment.
Open Mike 15/05/2018
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Daily Review 14/05/2018
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Bridges believes in trickle down
Simon Bridges has committed the twin political sins of not only believing in trickle down but in publicly confirming his belief.
Young man there’s no need to feel down
The person in control of Christchurch Stadium’s PA system has performed the most outstanding burn on Israel Folau’s homophobic beliefs.