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Goff was the big underdog going into the debate after Key bested Clark in 2008. Goff far exceeded expectations. Got his policies out, got the best hits in, and sounded like a PM. Key was under-prepared and complacent. After an aggressive start intended to knock…
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The first debate. Phil Goff and John Key. TV1 at 7pm. Don't miss it! =================================================================== Update: See the website www.keyholes.co.nz for looking at the claims that Key makes in the debate. See also Twitter: #keyholes #ownourfuture #voteNZ Goff getting all the hits in. Got his policies across well. Key…
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Labour candidate for Northcote Paula Gillon writes: The Nats planned ‘starting-out’ youth rate is unfair, discriminatory and just plain bollocks It’s no surprise that TV3 showed a clip on Friday night where young people talked about how they didn’t agree with National’s proposed new ‘starting-out’…
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National has announced that the money gained from selling assets will go into a Future Fund and be spent on modernising schools. Is the sort of future they have in mind like the so-called "free schools" now being set up by the Conservatives in Britain…
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It's been an extraordinary few weeks. It started with the double downgrade/DJ Key fiasco and Rena. Then Labour started dictating the play: its policies setting the beat of the campaign; its framing dominating. National took its only asset, Brand Key, and trashed it with its…
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The excellent Tom Scott from Stuff.
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So, that was National's 'big announcement'tm? Allocating money they've already banked into a fund which is just an accounting fiction for capital spending that was already budgeted for. It's a political fraud and an insult to our intelligence to say the asset sale money be…
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Last week I wrote about a Horizon poll which suggested that the Nats' mishandling of the Rena disaster was costing them votes. That's probably one of the factors behind the drop in their support in the latest 3 News / Reid poll. It's the Nats' largest…
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