Simon Bridges has made the call and ruled out working with NZ FIrst after the 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 trust the party. Bridges' move,…
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I cannot believe how inept National's handling of the $100,000 donation fiasco has been. It was bad enough that Bridges was involved in the donation which was made in such a way it was not disclosed as it should have been, that he apparently agreed…
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Yesterday's SFO announcement that four persons have been charged with offences following the investigation of the Feng Shue carve up of a $100,000 donation to National will reverberate for a while. Unfortunately for National during election year. It makes National's claim that it is the…
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This is a rather novel way for the National Party to divert attention away from the Government's infrastructure announcement. From Stuff: The Serious Fraud Office is filing criminal charges against four people in relation to donations to the National Party. But party leader Simon Bridges says…
The details of the Government's $12 billion infrastructure announcement have been released. There are more roading projects than I like. We should be building light rail and walkways and cycleways and pouring as much as we can into these areas. But there is a significant…
This news shows how strange International Relations has become. Donald Trump, currently on trial in the Senate for withholding approved funds from the Ukraine in an attempt to get the Ukranian authorities to dig up dirt on his possible opponent Joe Biden, and Benjamin Netanyahu,…
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Simon Bridges has wondered out loud if anti semitism stopped the Government from sending a senior representative to a Holocaust memorial in Israel. Interestingly National apparently did not send representatives to two earlier events. They have not commented on this failure or what conclusion should…
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Posted on 27/01/2020 by Nick Kelly Ahead of the 2020 General Election in New Zealand, Labour Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced that her party is committed to run a factual election and has signed up to a social media tool to help prove it. The 2020 NZ election will be…
Another case has appeared involving a grown male lecturing Greta Thunberg and at the same time showing how limited his understanding of reality is. This time it was US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin who showed how big a douchebag he is by saying that Thunberg…
With China's New Year arriving, and a terrible flu virus struggling to be contained within it at the same time, it's time to reflect again on China's future and impact for New Zealand. Do yourself a huge favour and go to one of the many…
Dr. Genevieve Guenther @DoctorVive on twitter asks, Thought experiment for the weekend: What if everyone could have adequate food & healthcare, access to education & the arts, but industrialization were unsustainable. Would you rather de-industrialize & halt warming or continue industrial activity &…
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Have you ever experienced that you put forward a good idea, plan, or strategy in and to your team and a higher-up (e.g. the boss) or one of your colleagues takes or gets the credit for it and you get not even an acknowledgement? It…
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