1. Comment on Open Mike 21/09/2026

    Jimmy-you do realise that this means that food costs that were already exorbitant have gone up a further 2%? In what universe is this good news?

  2. Comment on Open Mike 21/09/2026

    This is why the CoC will be voted out on November 7. They see only profits and costs, not lives. People have had enough.

  3. Comment on Open Mike 19/09/2026

    I would have thought doing badly in that atrocious music pro-Israel event would be a badge of honour.

  4. Comment on Open Mike 18/09/2026

    +infinity

  5. Comment on Open Mike 18/09/2026

    A bill to control the effects on energy prices of Data Centres has been shot down by Democrat Senator Martin Heinrich in the Senate because it is toothless. “Heinrich argued that the Ratepayer Protection Act did not go far enough to force data centers to …

  6. Comment on Open Mike 18/09/2026

    “The government has not signed a contract yet, nor introduced the enabling legislation…” So is this legislation is to be slammed through in the next few days? Parliament ends on October 1. They are cutting it fine, to say the least. I have argued before …

  7. Comment on Open Mike 17/09/2026

    Both Bella.

  8. Comment on Comrade Christopher and the breakup of Foodstuffs

    ….and Australia’s economy is 7 times as big as NZ’s.

  9. Comment on Comrade Christopher and the breakup of Foodstuffs

    Nobody either likes or believes Luxon/Willis’ policy. Talk about desperate.

  10. Comment on Open Mike 17/09/2026

    National’s Southland MP, Joseph Mooney, has been naughty in the usual National Party manner. He is claiming credit for a bike/walking bridge near Queenstown, but According to Crux: “Mooney claimed the [bridge] project as a personal achievement for the …

  11. Comment on Open Mike 16/09/2026

    This is a scandal-Labour and the Greens need to broadcast it far and wide. “….the Government has spent nearly half a billion dollars creating business cases for so-called ghost roads that have now been in effect shelved. This includes $323m on Roads of …

  12. Comment on Open Mike 16/09/2026

    Agreed Bella…it’s on a knife edge.

  13. Comment on Open Mike 16/09/2026

    Talbot Mills, now known as Anacta, poll last night: Lab 31 Gre 12 TPM 2 =45 Nat 30 NZF 10 ACT 8 =48 Opp 7 So similar to the Freshwater poll….it all depends on Opp. But assuming Opp would negotiate first with the largest party (and btw the largest support …

  14. Comment on Daily review 15/09/2026

    Agree totally Veitchy. The reason is at least partly explained by the fact that racist/anti-immigrant parties such as Afd, Reform, One Nation and their NZ cousin NZF are all polling well.

  15. Comment on Daily review 15/09/2026

    Talbot Mills, now known as Anacta, poll tonight: Lab 31 Gre 12 TPM 2 =45 Nat 30 NZF 10 ACT 8 =48 Opp 7 So similar to the Freshwater poll from earlier today. It all depends on Opp. But assuming Opp would negotiate first with the largest party (and btw the …

  16. Comment on Open Mike 15/09/2026

    Luxon should be stamping on the CC deniers. Of course he doesn’t which is excellent as it makes National look like nutters.

  17. Comment on Open Mike 15/09/2026

    “Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has refrained from directly criticising Lloyd Budd over the remarks, but said his candidate was right to confirm his position.” But he had already made his position clear earlier, arrived at after 43 years of living on …

  18. Comment on Open Mike 15/09/2026

    I thought Hipkins was pretty good on Morning Report today. I still think he will out-debate Luxon if given the chance. That is a big if.

  19. Comment on Open Mike 15/09/2026

    I’m not sure what’s happening around the country Obs, but here in the Waitaki, National’s Miles Anderson faces a battle because he is up against Michael Laws and Damian O’Connor. With some tactical voting by the Greens (for Damian obviously) there is a …

  20. Comment on Open Mike 15/09/2026

    The Freshwater poll today looks far more credible than the Taxpayers’ Union poll: Lab 28 Gre 14 TPM 2 =44 Nat 27 NZF 13 ACT 9 =49 Opp 6 Who forms a government depends which way Opp swings, though they are perilously close to being a wasted vote. The Greens …

  21. Comment on Open Mike 14/09/2026

    I have heard Sam Stubbs from Simplicity on the radio several times over the last couple of days getting stuck into Labour’s Kiwisaver policy, with the implication that National’s is much better. It turns out that they are almost identical. Over a working …

  22. Comment on Labour to accelerate climate action

    Sitting on your hands and doing nothing about Climate Change is not an option Bloke. You criticise China, but there is a massive shift from fossil fuel to renewables happening there. India is a problem. While they have the current government not much will …

  23. Comment on Labour to accelerate climate action

    Sitting on your hands and doing nothing about Climate Change is not an option Bloke. You criticise China, but there is a massive shift from fossil fuel to renewables happening there. India is a problem. While they have the current government not much will …

  24. Comment on Open Mike 12/09/2026

    In the USA a bipartisan Ratepayer Protection Act is which aims to compel tech companies to pay for the infrastructure associated with data center development, has passed unanimously out of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. It is proposed to go to …

  25. Comment on Open Mike 11/09/2026

    Agreed tWig…that is what Monbiot discusses in the article I posted above.

  26. Comment on Labour to accelerate climate action

    Bloke-you can’t “adapt” to a climate change catastrophe. It will be the end of the world as we know it. Read the George Monbiot article I posted above-this explains it well. The “adapt and we will be fine” argument is used by the Right and extreme Right, …

  27. Comment on Open Mike 11/09/2026

    George Monbiot puts an excellent and compelling argument as to why Burnham should leave North Sea fossil fuel in the ground. But Burnham is old school Labour. The environment is irrelevant-he didn’t mention climate change once in his first few weeks in …

  28. Comment on Daily review 10/09/2026

    Just vote Green SPC. If the Greens got 18% and Labour 29% in a new government of the Left, the Greens would be entirely justified in making one of their major tax changes a bottom line.

  29. Comment on Open Mike 11/09/2026

    They should be planning the next section, not patting themselves on the back.

  30. Comment on Open Mike 10/09/2026

    It’s the old Labour Leftism. They prefer jobs and growth, however tiny, instead of environmental protection. For instance Burnham will probably start production from new oil and gas fields in the North Sea. (Rosebank and Jackdaw fields)