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I'm impressed with the Green's new billboard campaign and I'm pretty certain it'll work as it is clean and effective marketing and reminds me of the best work that was coming out of Saatchi when they were at the peak of their powers. One thing…
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If you've caught yourself asking why the Nat's billboards are so bad, then Jafa Pete has the answer. Their adman, Glenn Jameson, is an objectivist. For those of you not familiar with objectivism it's kind of like a cross between neo-liberalism and Nietzschen fascism (as…
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As always at The Standard, we're interested in the issues that affect people's lives. So, rather than endless posts on who said what over donations made three years ago, we looked at some interesting stories on wages, living standards, and protections against loan sharks. National's awful billboards…
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The Greens billboards have shown how it's done - striking and simple without being dishonest or simplistic. Maybe National could imitate them: Maybe not.
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Lord Ashcroft is a worry. Not just to John Key, who had to admit that he didn't know why Ascroft had met him at Key's home: it just happened to be in his diary. According to an article in the Daily Telegraph, he is also…
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A puzzled reader sent me this question - what is National up to? Their environment policy is leaked, and John Key says that one of his staff must have left it lying around in a café (and now their Conservation policy too?) Their transport spokesperson…
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A friend has just rung to excitedly inform me that National's conservation policy has now also been released by Trevor Mallard. That means there is officially a leak in the National Party caucus. I expect in the next hour or so the Nats are going…
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OK. They were laughably bad before but now they don't even have the grammar correct. If you can count it, you use fewer: less water, fewer litres of water; less bureaucracy, fewer bureaucrats. Simple. This from the bunch promising to magically raise education standards? Wait though - since…
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Today, we have National's Judith Collins attacking the Government because the number of Kiwis on the unemployment benefit rose from 17,710 to 20,465 between June and July. Never mind the fact that 17,710 was a 30 year record-low and even 20,000 is 120,000 fewer Kiwis…
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The National Party are once again trying to make political capital over the Trans-Tasman wage gap, even though they created it in the first place and have no policy to fix it. Like I've pointed out a dozen times before: 1. Yes, we have a…
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ACT: the guts to do what's right1 2 1. except when it comes to properly authorising our election advertisements 2. oh, and global warming
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As the polls start to turn on National - and a new poll out yesterday saying the Left working with the Maori Party would have the numbers why aren't we surprised that Granny Herald's ‘your views' section today asks voters if they think the polls…
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The leaks from within the National camp just keep on coming. Last night Trevor Mallard had the privilege of releasing National's environment policy on 3 News thanks to a leak from the inside, destroying National's planned policy launch on Saturday and exposing serious divisions within…
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An article on Stuff today shows "Social injustice is killing people on a grand scale". It's based on research by Dr. Jamie Pearce and indicates that those who live in poor areas are more likely to die early than those in wealthy areas. Dr Pearce…
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John Key's impatience to get the election over and done with makes a lot more sense in light of today's Roy Morgan poll. The poll has Labour up 4 to 38%, the Greens up to 8% and National down 3.5 to 44.5% - well out…
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This business with donations from the Spencer Trust going to New Zealand First but not being declared. I find it hard to credit that this was an accident. It seems beyond belief that no-one in the party would have seen the donation declaration at some…
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Newly up from 08wire There's something very powerful about that music and image combination....
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A reader just sent us this poll from NZ Doctor magazine (offline): If there was a snap election tomorrow, 38 per cent of GPs would vote National and 36 per cent for Labour, the latest New Zealand Doctor / IMS Health Fax poll shows. Labour's…
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We are, at a legal maximum, 72 days away from the election. The tradition is that the date is announced at least six weeks before election date (that's the timeframe the Electoral Office needs). So, we would expect to have the election date announced by the…
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Perhaps Mr Key is feeling a little regretful about comparing himself to Barack Obama. Certainly the chutzpah inherent in such a comparison has been noted - including these comments in the ODT today from Simon Cunliffe: "it's quite natural that a political leader such as…
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For any of you who thought the sharp end of capitalism was a nice place to be, the front page story in today's Dom Post should change your mind. It's about the lending practices of the loan sharks that have flourished in the twenty years…
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National's new billboard. It's like when your Dad tries to rap.
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Talking about the Nat billboard campaign on Wammo's show this morning, Key said it was going to positive and on message*. Umm, when's the positive bit coming? Because 'wave goodbye to higher taxes, not your loved ones' is not a positive message. It's negatively framed…
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Just when you thought National's billboard campaign couldn't possibly get any weaker, reports emerge that their next one will say: "Get youth into training, not into trouble" Honestly guys, just cut your losses and start again. [UPDATE: Apparently the first of this run is going…
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So, the day after our post last week a couple of readers were in town and they came across Stephen Franks beside his faded old yellow VW Beetle. Seems the tired old vehicle was on its last legs and had run out of juice. So,…
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Who's been missing from Kiwiblog's comments section lately?
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John Drinnan in the NZ Herald: "One of the biggest challengers in the telecommunications business, TelstraClear, has attacked National Party plans for a fibre-optic network, saying the party should be focused on business. "The telco says the main result of faster broadband links to the…
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More creative hi-jinks from No8Wire
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A couple more National Party billboards I whipped up in my lunch break. You know, when the original is so godawful it takes all the fun out of the parody. Step it up could you, National? Even Ansell's better than this... (Click on the images…