Housie
I was listening to Parliament on the wireless this afternoon. First. Question Time. Bennett was asked how many jobs the Jobs Summit has […]
Slippery
Mary Wilson interviews John Key on Checkpoint. Brilliant. Sean Plunket interviews Richard Prebble and Richard Griffin on Morning Report. Grubby old men. Time […]
Quandary
This evening, Labour tabled in the House, with her permission, a statement from the woman that Richard Worth harrassed with his corrupt ‘jobs […]
Get a shave mate, you’re the PM
If you saw last night’s One News piece on the Worth fiasco, you might have noticed Key looking particularly haggard. This photo doesn’t […]
Rhetoric & Reality 2: Jobs
Before the election National’s “Employment & Workplace Relations” policy set out the principle of “building opportunity for all”, and the need to “Expand […]
Breakfast covers the Worth investigation
First it was Paul Henry and Guyon Espiner. Both agree Key needs to “come clean with the country and give us more detail […]
General Election in 2010?
National promised to do a lot of things in their first term such as: Not selling state assets. Keeping WFF and other entitlements […]
Worse and worse
This just gets worse for Key. It has emerged that Worth was offering ‘jobs for favours’ for a young woman. Goff passed her […]
Question time
John Key’s making a real hash of this latest Worth scandal. There was the secretive way he went about things yesterday, which is […]
Iz satisfard
hattip: Maia, Anthony Karinski
Happy Birthday lprent!
Happy 50th lprent! Now here’s someone Russel Norman could legitimately call grey 😉 But seriously, Lynn is a baby-boomer, one of those generation […]
I wish to complain…
It turns out that Phil Goff was aware of an allegation about Richard Worth weeks ago that may relate to the current investigation. […]
Barrel scraped
A dude told me a good political rule of thumb the other day. ‘If Farrar won’t go near something, it’s pure political poison. […]
Update on Worth
From the fuzz: Police confirm that a complaint was made in Auckland two weeks ago and related to a recent alleged incident. Preliminary […]
Nat discovers the virtues of listening
Here’s an exert from Nick Smith’s speech to the 2009 New Zealand Planning Institute Conference: I acknowledge, that while the bulk of submissions […]
Cullen’s two cents
Quite rightly, Michael Cullen has avoided getting involved in the debate over National’s starvation diet for the New Zealand Superannuation Fund, known as […]
Sprinters
David Farrar has a post on Kiwiblog listing the fastest risers to become Prime Minister. They are: John Key – 6 years David […]
If you’re gonna cut, make it clean
How titillating. Worth has resigned and he won’t say why. ‘Personal reasons’ eh? Heard that one before. Key’s not talking either. He describes […]
More on Worth?
Just out from the police: An allegation has been made against a sitting member of Parliament. Wellington police are conducting a preliminary investigation […]
Three down
Six months in and John Key has broken three of his eleven “personal guarantees”. Impressive. Click on the image for full size.
Transparency
Strange isn’t it that Key can support transparency yesterday but not today. Political expediency at its worst.
Worth stands down
Richard Worth has stood down for “personal reasons”. Of course he will have been pushed. My guess is that the PM will say […]
Worth’s gone
Link on Stuff. UPDATE: The “personal reasons” we know about so far: He personally profited from his trip to India to discuss aviation training. […]
Super projections
I’ve had a crack at working out how much we lose by cancelling the Cullen Fund contributions according to the Treasury’s figures in […]
Submit!
Over at No Right Turn, Idiot/Savant writes:- The Auckland Governance Committee has called for submissions on the Local Government (Auckland Council) Bill. Two […]
Step-dad state gets it right
The principle of liberalism is that there should be no restriction on the freedoms of the individual except to realise a greater benefit […]
DPF agrees, cancelling Cullen Fund rips off NZ
DPF writes on the cost of cancelling contributions to the Cullen Fund: First of all, it is true that under the 11 year […]
Tip of the spear
You’ve done your job as a spin doctor when journalists start repeating your spin sub-consciously. The credit downgrade ‘issue’ is a great example. […]
Rhetoric and reality
Tax cuts are the right wing’s favourite answer to every question. Before the election, National were promising us that tax cuts were the […]
Journalists not falling for Nats’ $8 billion con-job
This part of Vernon Small’s article today deserves an extended quote: “The numbers are stark. If full payments resume in 2020, contributions will […]
Sweet rides
A few weeks back, in the best traditions of tabloid TV, Q+A took time to mention Lockwood’s ride, the macho muscle car Ford […]
The $8 billion robbery
On Q+A this morning Guyon Espiner interviewed Bill English. Guyon had received papers from a treasury official that apparently show the cost of […]
The best part of The Onion
Is the fake editorial cartoons. Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference between them and the Herald’s:
Turei new greens leader
Metiria Turei has been elected at the Green Party National conference to replace Jeanette Fitzsimons are female co-leader. Her election is no real […]
Time for a change
Remember that month when John Armstrong was away when up and comers like Patrick Gower and Eloise Gibson were getting to write pieces on […]
Future shock
Yesterday, my comrade Zetetic wrote that despite all the bad stuff in the Budget there was still a “meta-victory” for the Left because […]