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Winston Peters is suggesting that in the transcript of the PM's meeting with Banks, John Key made some derogatory remarks about the older New Zealanders that tend to support New Zealand First, along the lines of "not to worry [about Winston's support] they're dying off". Slagging…
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Key has now officially launched "The National Party Preservation Society." He won't vote for MMP, and prefers SM. I predicted this in June: So John Key is making soothing noises about MMP at the moment, while at the same time expressing his sotto voce preference…
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An activist orchestrates the temporary alteration of National billboards and John Key's response is that: There is no room for negative campaigning in New Zealand. This within hours of the National Party research unit shopping a dirt story on the cameraman who recorded Key's conversation…
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Key made up nonsense about what S&P said about a Labour government, and was publicly humiliated when S&P fronted up and said that it wasn't true. Now history repeats. 3 News reports that a lawyer representing victims of the News of the World phone hacking scandal says that…
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MANA's Epsom Candidate Pat O'Dea, reminds the voters of Epsom who they are really voting for. -- Jenny
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We finally get a glimpse of just how ‘small’ the government thinks small government should be. From the Sunday Star Times: It has slashed new spending provisions and put the public service on a belt-tightening programme for which, English warns, there is no end in…
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Many have commented that John Key dodges all the hard questions in favour of scripted photo-ops. But 3 News reminded us that his MPs are just as bad. In fact, although Key's face is everywhere, the rest of the Nats are working hard at being invisible. Let's…
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120 'policies' and only 1 of them new. That's National's economic development "action plan". It looks superficially impressive at first: 120 points - what a busy government. But then you read, and it's all stuff that's underway or already announced, or in some cases Labour…
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No Right Turn: National on energy National has released its energy policy [PDF]. The short version? "Drill it, mine it, sell it". Yes, seriously: Our petroleum estate is under-explored. An independent valuation has put a value of $8 billion to $12 billion on potential future…
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Key is now using the police to intimidate journalists at The Herald and at 3 News to keep the "game changing" teapot tapes from being released. What a surprise! Not. John Key and the Nats have a long, long history of this kind of attack:…
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John: "I hear you might be able to get your hands on something to get me through the Election?"
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The tea tape didn't interest me at first. Nats' reaction seemed over the top but would Key and Banks be so stupid to discuss anything sensitive in a public cafe metres from the press mob? But then Key went to the cops. This said the…
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Way to keep the story rolling John: Key going to police over 'teapot tapes' John Key will complain to police over the ‘teapot tapes’, even though he says they contain nothing that would be a game-changer. The Prime Minister is making the complaint to police…
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Many have commented that John Key dodges all the hard questions in favour of scripted photo-ops. But 3 News reminded us that his MPs are just as bad. In fact, although Key's face is everywhere, the rest of the Nats are working hard at being…
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New Zealand has drifted under National for 3 years. They came to power with a plan they developed years earlier at the peak of the good times: cut taxes, sell assets, build roads. They haven't altered that plan despite the weakest 'recovery' in history, no…
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Labour's fisheries policy will phase-in a requirement for fishing vessels to be at least 50% Kiwi-crewed - this would let the quotaholders charter foreign vessels, which would come here with a skeleton crew and take on Kiwis to do the fishing work - and at…
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Oh to be an Epsom voter - what an enviable menu of options you have. A National candidate who cares so much about the electorate that he goes to extraordinary lengths to discourage people from voting for him, or a racist former National politician soundly…
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Wave goodbye to higher taxes. Not your loved ones. Choose a Brighter Future. Derp de derp. This is what John Key was promising last election - before he came to power, raised GST, and record numbers of kiwis left New Zealand permanently for a brighter…
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Labour's David Cunliffe put out a press release judging National's proposed asset sales programme by the 5 tests that Key laid down in an effort to reassure us that sales would only go ahead if they made sense and were good for the country. Cunliffe's…
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The Government proposes that it will partially sell electricity SOEs if it wins the election. Economist Dr Rhema Vaithianathan from Auckland University will discuss Privatisation New Zealand Style. Her talk will look at the economic logic and evidence on privatisation of utilities and ask whether…
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In the old days soldiers marched onto the floor of parliament with fixed bayonets to replace governments and frustrate the popular will. Now it is being done differently In Greece and now Italy democratic governments and an opposition are being replaced with a single party…
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So, John Key and John Banks have a meeting in a cafe, full of members of the public. They get the photo-op, then usher the media out. A HoS cameraman accidentally leaves his audio recorder. Key and Banks talk. In public. Anyone in the cafe…
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This brief account of Bill English's appearance on TV3's "The Nation" yesterday summarises a classic collection of Nat lines, lies and spin: 'Opportunities' haven't closed income gap - English Finance Minister Bill English has admitted in the last three years, the Government has failed to…
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In 2005 Labour wrote to State House tenants with a warning "Don't let National sell your house." We were criticised for scaring people. Now Tamaki residents have got the real letters. And the boot. On Wednesday in Glen Innes "residents angry at a move to…
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Brent Sheather assesses the case for asset sales in today's Herald. He cuts through the crap and concludes "selling the SOEs doesn't look all that clever, particularly from the perspective of young people and those other sectors of society who won't be able to participate…