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The government is doing a poor job at explaining our Iraq war policy, but never fear, we have the answers. By popular demand, promoted from comments yesterday, McFlock explains: So, to recap: John Key is sending soldiers (we can’t identify) into an area (roughly outlined)…
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Over at Pundit Andrew Geddis has a great piece - "Three signs that National knows Simon Bridges did wrong". Geddis on the third sign, Nat spinster David Farrar running the "beltway issue" deflection, is brilliant in all sorts of ways. Won't spoil it by quoting,…
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National has a long history of attacking and intimidating people who are expressing inconvenient opinions. It's a culture that brought us dirty politics, and one of its recent manifestations was the attempt to silence a roading advocacy group during the Northland by-election. Back in January,…
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A much discussed piece by Scoop's Alastair Thompson yesterday: An Investigative News Media Blood Bath |500 Words Last week was a bad week for NZ Media. And for much more than just the announced "review" of Campbell Live. One of NZ's best newspaper editors Tim…
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Putting aside the soap of a UK General Election where the Tories and Labour Parties still seem to be fighting the SNP on the basis of Independence Referendum issues (there might be a post in the pipeline on that), an interesting development is unfolding vis…
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Key's attempts to drum up enthusiasm for this year's upcoming budget have fallen absolutely flat. Brian Fallow says "Govt boost to R&D not enough to close gap on OECD". Even John Armstrong can't get excited: John Key's make-or-break Budget Ouch! Following National's heavy defeat in…
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In a series of posts yesterday Rob Salmond at Polity published his OIA / research on National's bridges promise in the Northland by election (see one two three four and especially the timeline in two). This was excellent work, picked up by many in the…
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Over a month ago I asked what Michael Woodhouse has actually got right on employment relations in New Zealand. I don't think it's too much to expect the Minister of Workplace Relations and Safety to understand basic concepts related to his portfolio. Like the fact…
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The difference is that they are completely and utterly different. But John Key yesterday drew this comparison and would have us think that they are like each other and that this is why the National Government is reneging on promises made repeatedly over the past six years. I listed…
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At a Fabian Society event on Saturday April 18 in Owen Glenn Building, Auckland University speakers Michael Cullen, Peter Harris, Sarah Helm, Anne Martin, Richard Harman, & Annie Newman will offer their thoughts on what will be needed for political strategy, economic policy, government formation…
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What has been amusing me over recent months has been watching Cameron Slater, our rather pathetic and quite inept "journalist", having legal issues. And financial issues from being involved in legal issues. I keep an eye on them for my amusement. It is like watching Charlie Chaplin…
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The last Labour government delivered 9 budget surpluses. The current National government have delivered 6 deficits so far, and borrowed more than all previous governments - combined. All this time National have been promising and promising to get back in to "surplus". Last election it…
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Joe Trinder at Mana News makes an interesting claim: Key: I want that left wing bastard gone Last year Prime Minister John Key and Mark Weldon had a phone conversation in regards to John Campbell. Mr Key was overheard saying “I want that left wing…
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Key's proposal to change the flag is an expensive and unnecessary circus, and this should be the end of it: Flag change opposed by RSA The Royal New Zealand RSA says it will fervently oppose changing the New Zealand flag when it appears before a…
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As expected, Hillary Clinton has announced: I'm running for president Hillary Clinton announced on Sunday that she was running for president of the United States, promising to be a champion of middle-class Americans if she made it to the White House as the country’s first…
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She is the person who recently wrote a really obsequious article about John Key in the Daily Telegraph where she described him as one of the best Conservative Prime Ministers in the world. Her piece is cringeworthy and I wonder how in one article she can have made so…
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So, the much-touted and long-awaited government surplus looks unlikely to arrive this year. Is that a surprise? No. Does it matter? Not much. The only reason for sparing much time on the failure to eliminate the government deficit is that it relates to a target…
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Rodney Hide suggested in the Herald this morning that if James Shaw was leader of the Greens there would be a greater chance they could go into coalition with National. James Shaw does not think so. From Facebook: "Oh great. A leadership endorsement from Rodney…
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Better late than never I guess - in the UK: Labour pledges huge fines on tax avoiders to raise £7.5bn a year Labour will declare an immediate, all-out war on tax avoidance and evasion if it wins the 7 May election, pushing emergency laws through…
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The "comms team" over at the New Zealand police has penned a typical "Dirty Politics" response to a recent New Zealand Herald article by Bryce Edwards. Complete with gratuitous ad homs, dodgy facts, and an emotional quote from a [I suspect] non-existent police officer to…
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