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3 News tonight: "the Government wants less pupils per teacher.." Is TV3 employing National's billboard genius to write the tele-prompter? Also, my inside sources reveal that Matthew Hooten has no inside sources. Think about it, who in the Beehive would talk to Hooten? If you did…
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The Business Roundtable held another in their series of forums on political issues targeted at young people on Thursday. The aim is obviously to get along the type of kid who goes to his (sorry for the gendering but they were 90% male) commerce classes in a…
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Nats Golden Run - the headline accompanied by vivid graphic in the Dom Post yesterday would have had many on the left sighing into their morning long black. But upon looking at it more closely I discovered that the dramatic graph wasn't the result of…
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Newswire have a new poll "Is it a done deal? What the polls don't tell us" which makes for some interesting reading. It was a limited poll done around Wellington on Monday using a true random polling technique. It also reported all of the figures…
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I'm on 'holiday' for the next few weeks to contribute some campaign work. However it will also give me some time to do the next set of upgrades to the site sometime during that period. I will be putting in the acculmulated upgrades for existing…
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If the latest Roy Morgan poll is to be believed, John Key's big gamble of ruling Winston Peters out of any future coalition may well turn out to be one of the stupidest plays in New Zealand's political history. According to the poll, NZ First…
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Work rights and judgement look to be central issues in the campaign. The Greens set the standard by putting forward a fantastic work rights policy in counter to National's continued attacks on our rights. Key's judgement in fiercely advocating Kiwi involvement in the invasion of…
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From Newzblog: "Local activist James Sleep was today exercising his democratic right to protest when he was approached by an entourage of 4WDs carrying Wairapara MP John Hayes and John Key. Sleep attempted to get out of the way however he soon found himself being…
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First, it's nice to be pleasantly surprised by a tory. Turns out Tony Friedlander's Road Transport Trust is not just donating to National. As well as $30K to the Nats, Labour got $20K and other parties will get something as well to help the democratic…
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The word around the traps is that ACT will be announcing the name of its mystery 5th list candidate at its Law and Order policy launch this weekend and it's rumoured that the candidate will be David Garrett. Garrett is a Barrister and is also…
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Thanks to the wonders of Scoopit I've just come across this old TVNZ footage of John Key's first day as National's finance spokesman. It's interesting to see where his economic priorities lay: The more things change, the more they stay the same, eh? [It's worth…
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Under the headline "National MP 'least prefered' in own website opinion poll" the Kapiti News reports that Nathan Guy trails Darren Hughes 5% to 95% in his own Facebook poll. Comments on the poll include: I don't trust Nathan Guy to work properly for all…
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Work rights should be a big issue this election. National is proposing to strip workers of their rights to undermine wage increases. The Greens' work rights policy, on the other hand, rocks. - Lift the minimum wage from $12 an hour to $15 an hour…
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Helen Clark made foreign policy judgement a campaign issue today when she told a Grey Power meeting that if New Zealand had invaded Iraq with the US as John Key wanted we would have lost up to 60 soldiers*. Through a spokesman, John Key said…
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Matthew Hooton lies for a living. He was one of the architects of Don Brash's deceptive, racist campaign in 2005, he has told lies about me personally in his SST column, and he lies endlessly on his new paid blog. The latest lie is that…
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I've just come across Labour's tragic new campaign website, Labour08.co.nz, and I'm of the firm opinion that someone needs to get their shit together very quickly. Let's recap here. Labour, according to the polls, is anywhere from 6 to 18 points behind National. Even accounting…
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I sometimes have Fox News on in the background when I'm home, it's good to get wound up now and again. So, I'm used to seeing the most bizarre attack angles masquerading as serious journalism. But I took a second-take when I saw this one…
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Yesterday, John Key "attacked Labour's economic record, which he said amounted to overtaxing voters so it could put money into its pet projects" So, what are these 'pet projects' and which of them National would cancel? Well, Labour's major spending projects have been increasing the…
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I see the National billboard on the corner of Dixon and Victoria in Wellington is already down. Are they pulling them all because they have been unanimously ridiculed or were the hilarious extra comments* that kept appearing on this one making it a liability? Either…
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Some commentators have pondered whether an election in NZ so close to the election in the States should be a concern for Labour. Helen Clark has already said: "... Obviously we all take a great interest in the American election but our election is what…
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Fair to say this is video is pretty much out there...
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Just came across this on G.Blog. Pure gold: ps. Is that Winston in the bottom left corner?
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When the EPMU released its investigation notes on Shawn Tan it was obvious that some right-wing bloggers would seize on the fact that Tan had been employed on a probationary agreement and stupidly claim that, therefore, the union was hypocritical for opposing National's fire at…
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Bill English has confirmed that National still intends to give the average worker a $50 tax cut. That's $18 a week more than they will get in Labour's tax cuts after 2011. If National's would increase the cut for all taxpayers by around $18 a…
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Cameron Slater, aka Whaleoil, is a nasty piece of work. If you're a leftie and you get into the media, he'll dig whatever dirt he can find on you from the 'net and what he can't find he'll make up in an attempt to intimidate…
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When John Key responded to the PM's announcement of the election date on Friday he stated: This election is not about the past. It's not about the old political battles of the past 20 or 30 years. And I got to thinking, what exactly are…
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Prime is running a series of interviews every Sunday until the election with the leader of each party in Parliament, starting with Rodney Hide last night. It was surprisingly good. Hosted by Bill Ralston with a panel of Barry Soper, Audrey Young, and Colin Espiner,…
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08 wire are staying on the case - coming to a screen near you:
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It's an old saw among those who think knee-jerk cynicism is a replacement for healthy skepticism that politicians always break their promises. That's challenged by an interesting study out of Canterbury University about whether governments keep their election promises. In the 11 terms from 1972…
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Well it turns out my niece has been having fun and done an effective google bomb on John Key. I've just been watching her TV3 clip when I wrote this post. Rochelle shows her experience with the media in expressing her opinion. This is something…