The response to Labour's Monetary Policy Upgrade released this week has been extraordinarily good. I am certain that National's minions have been beavering away looking for a slightly inelegantly phrased sentence or an addition mistake so that evidence of utter incompetence can be bundled up and shopped to…
Imperator Fish allows us to reproduce some of his posts. This post seems to represent a viewpoint of the National caucus and cabinet and those who donate to them. Conservative columnist Frank Shizenhausen cuts through the crap This Maurice Williamson business stinks. Why should a good…
Too many MPs in the NAct government, and some journalists, fail to understand that the negative impacts of the infiltration into politics of the worst ethos of big business: the primary pursuit of profit, power and personal success through deceptive manipulations and cronyist networks, has…
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There are those – like today’s editorial writer at the Dominion Post – who think that working for the tobacco industry at all is indefensible, and pretty much rules you out of seeking public office. But I think Todd Barclay, and his political patrons, have…
No Right Turn also has questions about how the police handled Maurice Williamson interfering in their investigation. When the Prime Minister found out that Maurice Williamson had contacted police over their investigation of a National Party donor on domestic violence charges, Williamson "assured [him] that he…
Maurice Williamson resigned as minister this morning. No Right Turn looks at some of the implications. Maurice Williamson was sacked within the space of 2 hours this morning after the Herald revealed he had attempted to interfere in a police investigation on behalf of a party donor. Its…
It never seems to end does it? The Jared Savage at the NZ Herald is reporting:- A National Party Minister contacted a top ranking police officer after a wealthy businessman with close ties to him was arrested on domestic violence charges. The Prime Minister's office…
Maurice Williamson's future is in doubt. From the Herald: A National Party Minister contacted a top ranking police officer after a wealthy businessman with close ties to him was arrested on domestic violence charges. The Prime Minister's office is understood to be considering Maurice Williamson's…
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