John Key is running a line that first emerged in the rightwing blogs a few months ago: 'Labour doesn't have any policy, either'. It was a moron's line when it was on the blogs and Key has only taken it up in a desperate attempt to…
With the election fast approaching, here's a non-exhaustive list of policies I would like to see from a 4th term Labour-led Government. Hopefully, other Standardistas will have time to make their own wish-lists too: - Serious investment in low-oil/low-carbon infrastructure. If we're not to let…
Updating a post from a few months ago, here's how Labour's Roy Morgan poll numbers are going compared to the price of petrol since the last election (the price of petrol axis is inverted, lower line = higher price). The trend continues, when petrol prices go up…
In 1993, the then National government reluctantly implemented the MMP system by putting in the Electoral Act 1993. This was an act that had some serious flaws, some of which were fixed in the Electoral Finance Act of 2008. One of the Electoral Act's innovations…