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Open mike 19/02/2020
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BREAKING NEWS: Simon Bridges Calls on Simon Bridges to Stand Down
In a dramatic twist in the investigation into the missing $200k donated to National under the table (or possibly under many smaller tables) Simon Bridges told radio station Tragic Dork FM that the leader of the opposition needed to stand Simon Bridges down…
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Daily review 18/02/2020
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Back in the U.S.S.A.
This November will see the election of the next President of the USA. Assuming the election will be between Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump (that's what's stacking up) then a question or three arises about how liberal mainstream media will report on the race. See,…
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The death of Holden
Now, you may well think: why does this matter to me? Thousands of households across New Zealand heard the announcement of the complete death of the Holden marque this week, as the death of one of the greatest binaries and one of the most closely…
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National received two dodgy $100,000 donations
Maybe we now know why National's economic policy release was such a fizzer. They were all preoccupied with news of more donation scandal affecting the party about to emerge. I was doing my best to write something deeper about tax cuts when this nuclear bomb…
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Open mike 18/02/2020
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Daily review 17/02/2020
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National’s big economic policy announcement
This will be a very short post. The big economic policy announcement has been made by National leader Simon Bridges and it is, how do I put this, underwhelming. There are five bulletpoint policies which I have summarised for you: PlatitiudePlatitiudePlatitiudePlatitiudePlatitiude One of them involves…
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National is not counting its chickens for granted
We are sprinting into election year and the policies are starting to emerge. And today Simon Bridges and National are going to announce a new policy that will surprise and astound you. Yes we are talking about tax cuts! Who would have guessed? From Derek…
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Open mike 17/02/2020
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Open mike 16/02/2020
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How To Get There 16/02/20
This post is a place for positive discussion of the future. An Open Mike for ideas, solutions and the discussion of the possible. The Big Picture, rather than a snapshot of the day’s goings on. Topics rather than topical. We’d like to think it’s…
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What was Winston thinking?
I have never been a big fan of NZ First. Occasionally they come out with good ideas. Most of the time they resemble a bunch of swaggering wide boys. They have held back the Government from following really progressive action on poverty reduction. But they…
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Open mike 15/02/2020
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Daily review 14/02/2020
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The demise of single use plastic bags and the limp vege problem
The rapid demise of the single use plastic bag has just left one hole in my life. I haven't (so far) been able to replace the one and only second life use that I ever found for them. They were great at keeping the broccoli…
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China: Guns, Germs, and Steel
The coronavirus outbreak that exploded three weeks ago in the central Chinese city of Wuhan has prompted the most severe Chinese government actions in three decades. Cities are closed down, transport links broken, and tens of millions of people effectively quarantined. At a time when…
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The problem with opinion polls
Colmar Brunton released a poll result last night. The results were quite different to the recent Reid Research poll and were remarkably stable to the last Colmar Brunton poll which was conducted last November. The Reid Research Poll had National at 43.3% and Labour on…
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Open mike 14/02/2020
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Daily review 13/02/2020
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Climate and food security: annual cropping vs regenerative agriculture
This popped up in my twitter feed last night. It's some research published in October 2019 looking at the risks of multiple crop failures as the planet moves between 1.5C and 2C global warming increase. https://twitter.com/ClimateBen/status/1227166109624938497 First the bad news then the good news. From…
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Fact checking National
I can see this becoming a regular post. Checking up on the accuracy of National's advertising and pointing out the most egregiously inaccurate examples. Yesterday Bridges was schooled in Parliament by Jacinda Ardern. If it was a boxing competition they would have called it off…
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Open mike 13/02/2020
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Daily review 12/02/2020
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Bridges’ many and varied positions on coalition with NZ First
Help my head hurts. Just over a week ago Simon Bridges ruled out working with NZ First after the next election. From Henry Cooke at Stuff: National leader Simon Bridges has ruled out working with NZ First after this year’s election, telling voters he can’t…
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Open mike 12/02/2020
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Daily review 11/02/2020
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Will the last remaining National MP please turn off the lights
Three more National Party MPs have announced their pending retirement from politics. David Carter was not a surprise. He has been list only and it was easy for him to go. Nicky Wagner was also not a surprise. Her heart has not been in it…
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Will DPF condemn National for hiding the identity of its donors?
There is this humdinger of a post by David Farrar about breaches of electoral law relating to donations. He says this: I blogged a few days ago that there was almost no doubt that electoral donation laws had been broken, and the only question was…
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