Goff’s response to Key
Even National Party pollster, David Farrar, could only give Key’s speech a B Goff says that it’s ‘Alan Bollard 1, John Key 0’. […]
Key’s statement to Parliament
Very little specific so far. According to Stuff, National will increase GST to ‘up to’ 15% – which I take to mean 15%. […]
Fair share for workers best way to close gap with Aussie
30 years ago, according to John Key, wages in Australia and New Zealand were the same. Since then New Zealand wages have stagnated […]
Ideology trumps science for the Right
Consider these results from opinion surveys of experts different areas of research, I won’t tell you the areas of research just yet: In one, […]
Great expectations
“This is his most important speech since he entered Parliament in 2002.” That’s Duncan Garner on Key’s speech today. Other political commentators have […]
Open mike 09/02/2010
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Key: Look over here! Please, look over here
Well, wages are stagnating, unemployment is just shy of its all-time high, crime is up, and there is no chance of the Government […]
Policy roulette
I don’t recall the date or anything, but I remember the exact moment I decided to get politically active. Rob Muldoon was called […]
Quick thoughts
It’s obvious to anyone with a brain that a government that spends half its time on holiday and the rest on PR stunts […]
When was the last time Key mentioned the ‘underclass’?
I was thinking the other day about John Key’s underclass speech. It was always pure gimmickry, as was the whole exploitation of Aroha. But how long would he keep up the facade once the PR value had worn off?
Cowardly
A foreign politician celebrates an act of terrorism on our shores and our Prime Minister refuses to comment on the matter? WTF?
Nats lying over firing Aroha’s mum?
In yesterday’s Herald Jackie Blue told us she’d sacked the mother of young Aroha because she had to merge offices with Sam Lotu-Iiga. But some investigative work at The Hand Mirror suggests otherwise…
Open mike 08/02/2010
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Shorter Lhaws
All teachers are feminist pinkos. And they’re badly dressed. And too nice to the kids. It wasn’t like that in my day. And […]
National, time to put your dog on a leash
As surely an endorphin high fades, Cameron Slater was going to do something to get his name back in the media. He’s been […]
The victims of Brand Key
Remember the struggling Auckland family that John Key used in 2007 to help build his brand? Well, according to the Herald: The mother […]
Poneke: If only scientists were more like god…
Poneke wrote a post about ‘climategate’. There was little about the science and more about personally attacking the authors of parts of the evidence supporting climate change. This ignores the whole basis of science, the scientific method.
Open mike 07/02/2010
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Unemployment: real action, not vague promises needed
The Herald reports: “[Key] also raised the 15 per cent Maori unemployment rate, saying improving education outcomes for Maori children would help address […]
And again nothing happened
The usual suspects are bleating on about John Key’s big speech on Tuesday. As I’ve pointed out again and again this sort of […]
Paula, John, seriously, put away the champagne
Paula Bennett and John Key have been, once again, prematurely popping the bottle of champagne to celebrate the end of rising unemployment. […]
A principal writes
School principal Pat Newman posted the following as a comment on Red Alert. It’s not a polished piece written with distribution in mind, […]
Open mike 06/02/2010
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Pay the money back, John
Today’s editorial in the Herald is headlined “Class standards leaflet a misuse of public funds.” It says: In response to criticism from educationists […]
Corporation to run for US Congress
Following the recent Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission to allow unlimited corporate funding of federal campaigns, Murray Hill […]
Tax Working Groupthink
The Tax Working Group’s summary presentation at their December seminar came from a senior partner from one of the Big 4 accountancy firms, […]
The 59,000 failures of John Phillip Key
Nearly a year ago, John Key, shaken by the first whispers of disquiet over his government’s month-long holiday at the height of an […]
That’s gotta hurt
The CTU is launching its “that’s gotta hurt” campaign against government cuts to ACC on the big screens at the Sevens today and […]
Unemployment? Blame someone else – Key
A panicked, chaotic series of excuses poured forth from John Key’s mouth yesterday as he attempted to shift the blame for the shocking […]
Open mike 05/02/2010
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Brown promises electoral reform in UK
The British PM Gordon Brown has announced he will push through legislation giving citizens the chance to vote on whether to dump First […]
The Government is to blame for record unemployment numbers
Andrew Campbell It should come as no surprise that unemployment hit 7.3% today. That’s what happens when a government does virtually nothing to […]
Welcome to the 1990s
Unemployment is now 7.3%. The highest since the 90s. What, you don’t remember that decade? Well, you’re in a for a treat. Govt […]
Translating Tories: “Creeping political correctness in our schools”
I wasn’t expecting to do another in this series so soon, but then I’m much too polite to decline a clear invitation like […]
22,000 more jobless Kiwis
Unemployment hit a startling 7.3% in the December quarter, far higher than the 6.8% expected. There are now 159,000 officially unemployed workers in […]
Do nothing and loving it
Saw this in the new culture/humour page in the Dom: Glad to see the “do-nothing PM” as Rodney Hide called John Key doing […]