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It's out. And it appears to be bolted together hurriedly rather than carefully crafted. And a lot of it may be academic. Such is National's current polling there will not be many list places to go around. Four months ago I had a guess at…
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More bad news for NZ First. It looks like their hope that Northland could provide a get out of jail free card is misplaced. The special Colmar Brunton poll result this morning had National's Matt King on 46% and Shane Jones a distant third on…
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The latest Roy Morgan poll is yet another rogue result, claiming that new National Party leader Judith Collins has actually cost the Tories votes. That can't be true, surely? On the day that National have released their party list, this will be a reminder to…
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https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=625849445002350 E ngā mana e ngā reo Ngāti whātua ngā mana whenua o Tāmaki Makaurau, e tika te kōrero Ehara taku toa he toa (taki tahi) he toa (taki tini) No rēira tātou e huihui mai nei, ka ‘Hoake tonu tātou’ Thank you for that…
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
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This week feels like I have gone through a time warp and that I have been returned to 2016. Suddenly John Key is back in the media and displaying that passive aggressive style that he perfected. On Tuesday he was advocating that the country's borders…
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Before you read this post, please watch at least the first 3 1/2 minutes of this video. It's James Shaw's Adjournment speech in parliament yesterday, and he's funny. Seriously, 3 minutes of jokes, casting shade on Winston, National, Act and even a wee bit on…
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
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A comment was made recently that no-one gets paid $100,000 growing permaculture kale, and this is the income needed for a house. It was a throwaway, dismissive comment so I'm not linking to it, but it was in the context of job creation and my…
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I normally do not do this, tempting fate and all that. But the forces behind this election are so strong that it would take a really dramatic event to change current momentum. Because kiwis are really proud that we are, so far, Covid free. We…
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
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The left’s change of fortune in the last 3 years is still kind of mindblowing. In 2017, the election that many believed the left would lose was twice turned on its head. First by Metiria Turei’s speech announcing the Green Party’s new welfare policy, where…
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In phenomenally good news for the country and the Government and pretty well everyone but the National Party the country's unemployment rate has, checks notes, declined. From Liam Dann at the Herald: Unemployment dropped to 4 per cent in the June quarter, official labour force…
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I thought I would have a dive into National's announced policies to see what they are proposing. It did not take me long. For a party that promised to be a policy factory it was a real disappointment. They do have a vision statement. It…
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She is one of the less noticeable of the current list of Labour MPs. She has been in Parliament for a long time, has given sterling service, has kept the Port Hills electorate safely red and has served the Labour Party organisation at the highest…
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
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Why have we fallen into the most boring and predictable election we've had since Bolger's second term? Neither National nor Labour have put out fresh policy in months. New roads don't count as fresh anything. Nor do medium-scale regional projects. Labour are still working on…
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The ratio under this tweet is as beautiful as the tweet itself. For non-twitter folk, the ratio is when a much larger number of replies go against a tweet and its likes, although in this case the likes are likely to be people agreeing that…
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Daily review is also your post. This provides Standardistas the opportunity to review events of the day. The usual rules of good behaviour apply (see the Policy). Don’t forget to be kind to each other …
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National has a crop of new candidates in Auckland all wanting to be in Parliament. But judging by what has happened so far you have to wonder if there are further allegations that may emerge which may ankle tap carefully stage managed campaigns. In the…
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And I thought last week was a bad week for National. It looks like they are facing even more problems. This morning in paywalled articles Bernard Orsman and Richard Harman have laid open a really messy situation relating to National's Auckland Central candidate selection. The…
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