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election 2008

Polity: National dropped 6% in 2008, 2011 campaigns

Written By: notices and features
Date published: - 8 comments

At Rob Salmond’s briefing to Labour’s Congress over the weekend, he made a point about National’s performance in recent campaigns, which was later picked up in David Cunliffe’s speech.

National has dropped six percent each time. For those interested, here is the data that sits beneath this claim.

It is no wonder that John Key is worried when 3 months out from an election they are sitting on less than 50%, with dead and dying coalition partners.

New Zealand is doing nothing about climate change

Written By: mickysavage
Date published: - 178 comments

The latest report on New Zealand’s performance under the Kyoto Protocol is out and the news is disturbing.  Net emissions compared to  our 1990 CO2 equivalent emissions are predicted to treble by 2030 at a time where they should be trending to below the 1990 level.  And Government policies are shown to be making little difference.  Meanwhile a report by Prof Euan Mason advocates that Agriculture should be in the scheme and that with a proper price for ETS credits significant reforestation with attendant benefits could occur.  And meanwhile RWNJs continue to show their belligerent lack of understanding of the science of climate change …

Three lies in one

Written By: the sprout
Date published: - 4 comments

Wave goodbye to higher taxes. Not your loved ones.

Choose a Brighter Future. Derp de derp.

This is what John Key was promising last election – before he came to power, raised GST, and record numbers of kiwis left New Zealand permanently for a brighter future in Australia.

A new low

Written By: Guest post
Date published: - 44 comments

Last election, National promised to subsidise a treatment for the rare and deadly Pompe disease. Now, they won’t even meet with the sufferers. The truth is that New Zealand can’t afford ongoing treatments that cost $1m per patient per year. National promises us whatever we want to hear to get our votes. Knowing from the start they’ll never deliver.

Parallels with the Past

Written By: Guest post
Date published: - 12 comments

On Sunday the 10th of May 2008, John Key gave a speech at the Southern Regional Conference explaining National’s platform for the looming election. It’s an interesting read, and looking back to consider words from the past can uncover some revealing realities about the present

River of Kiwis now flood to Oz

Written By: Ben Clark
Date published: - 56 comments

3300 Kiwis left for Australia last month, breaking a 32-year-old record. Remember when John Key promised to stop the flow of Kiwis across the Tasman? Well, now it’s a flood…

[and mostly it’s not from Christchurch either]

Chose a brighter future?

Written By: r0b
Date published: - 100 comments

With news now that a starving boy was found eating cockroaches, and that impoverished elderly are eating catfood, the plight of the underclass is getting nothing but worse.  Is this the “brighter future” that National promised?…

Kiwiblogblog is not completely dead

Written By: lprent
Date published: - 35 comments

Archiving websites is a bloody good idea because the public debate and emerging history of NZ society is shifting more and more into these electronic media. So I asked NatLib about one of those political blogs that disappeared from the blogosphere – KiwiBlogBlog. It still exists…

Tax Cuts or High Wages?

Written By: Bunji
Date published: - 17 comments

At the last election we chose tax cuts and unemployment instead of stimulus and stability – which was the more ambitious, high wage way to go?

National are not fulfilling their government’s core reason for existence: closing the wage gap with Australia.  No, we’re fast going backwards on that score, and it’s predictable: high unemployment causes low wages.

Key voters waking up, pity about the hangover they’ve given us

Written By: Marty G
Date published: - 81 comments

National is governing like National governs. Anyone could have foreseen this, there were plenty of clues, but its only now are people who switched to Key waking up to the fact that he’s just the grinning face on the same old beast. I wonder: if someone is smart enough to see that Key’s government is a failure now, how were they dumb enough to ever believe things would be different?

The original justification or no justification at all?

Written By: Guest post
Date published: - 3 comments

During the election the National Party packaged up its policies so as not to scare voters. The 90 day probationary period was for two specific reasons. It was targeted toward people on the margins of the employment market and only applicable to small businesses. Either the original justifications still hold true, hence undermining any argument to extend the scheme, or the original justifications were rubbish from the very start.

Hysterical media coverage

Written By: r0b
Date published: - 26 comments

Suddenly John Key is all over the place complaining about “hysterical” media coverage of National’s plans to turn large chunks of our National Parks into smouldering slag. John seems to have forgotten what “hysterical” politics really looks like. Let’s take a trip down memory lane…

Why did you switch to National?

Written By: r0b
Date published: - 133 comments

Down in the comments long time contributor gobsmacked wrote: I have never seen a post on here saying ‘The left parties want the […]

Three down

Written By: notices and features
Date published: - 8 comments

Six months in and John Key has broken three of his eleven “personal guarantees”. Impressive. Click on the image for full size.

Broken promises

Written By: Guest post
Date published: - 27 comments

National have already broken lots of pre-election promises and policies. Their policy to consult on local government and Auckland has been contemptuously ignored. […]

Third party returns

Written By: Eddie
Date published: - 10 comments

The Electoral Commission has released the third party spending returns for the 2008 election campaign and it looks like for all National and […]

Labour’s lessons

Written By: Steve Pierson
Date published: - 55 comments

54,982 votes, 2.3% of the total. That was difference in the election. If Labour had lost 55,000 fewer votes to National (it lost […]

Final results in

Written By: Steve Pierson
Date published: - 69 comments

The official count, including specials has been released. The Greens have picked up another seat on specials at National’s cost. Kennedy Graham will […]

Minnows

Written By: lprent
Date published: - 21 comments

I always love reading the 100 Word Blog. So few words and such a high degree of clarity. Richard has surpassed himself with […]

Wellington party vote breakdown

Written By: Tane
Date published: - 30 comments

The Wellingtonista has a cool post up with a breakdown of Left vs Right voting patterns in Wellington this election. The map above […]

Making the decision

Written By: Steve Pierson
Date published: - 56 comments

Have you still not decided who you’ll vote for? The final poll shows the race between a National/ACT/United Future or a Labour/Green/Progressive/Maori government […]

Final Roy Morgan poll

Written By: Tane
Date published: - 43 comments

The final Roy Morgan poll is out and the Left (LPG+M) has it by a nose with 62 seats out of a 122 […]