National Spinners
David Farrar wrote… “Funniest moment was talking to a few of John’s staff, and one of them asked whether their imminent transfer to […]
Musical interlude for John
I’m a money lender I have fortunes upon fortunes Take my hand for tender I am tortured, ever tortured And if you don’t […]
The distances between parties
Just before the election They Work For You released some impressive work on the voting distances between parties based on:- There are 110 […]
Congratulations
It’s been a hard fought campaign but it’s clear that we’ve got a firmly right wing government now. Congratulations are in order for […]
Damn close election. Now the coalition fun starts
That was incredibly close. National plus Act plus probably Peter Dunne have scraped a small majority. How close is shown in the election […]
Election Night Live Blogging: The Live Post
If the existence or nature of this post confuses you hopefully you will find the answer over here. 7.01pm Ok here we go! […]
Election Night Live Blogging: The Explanatory Post
Thanks to the Standardistas for giving me a method of distraction for the evening. I’m usually to be found at The Hand Mirror, […]
Contrast the ways of ‘democracy’
I’m happy to say that when I crawled out of my sickbed and voted this morning, it was nothing like the photos on […]
Making the decision
Have you still not decided who you’ll vote for? The final poll shows the race between a National/ACT/United Future or a Labour/Green/Progressive/Maori government […]
What a National/ACT Govt would mean
National/ACT would would implement several major policies: – it would weaken work rights. You could be fired without justification in the first 90 […]
The fundamental question
The fundamental question of politics is how the wealth of society should be divided among the members of society. We live in a […]
Final Roy Morgan poll
The final Roy Morgan poll is out and the Left (LPG+M) has it by a nose with 62 seats out of a 122 […]
Key the opposite of Obama
Supports a Woman’s Right to Choose This is abortion rights. John Key was asked about abortion rights in the debate and he lied […]
Key used Nat research unit to search for smear on Clark’s husband
After weeks of griping about dirty tactics, it has been revealed in the NBR that Key ordered the tax-payer funded National Party research […]
Endorsements
Steve Pierson: Greens – I want a more left-wing Labour-led government. The Greens’ work rights and environment policies are better than Labour’s and […]
John’s walkabout itinerary
We’ve been emailed a copy of the itinerary for John Key’s last day of campaigning. It looks like he’s doing a last minute […]
Election day
On election day, we won’t doing any posting until the polls close. We will lock off comments, as well, until then. As the […]
Down to the wire
The last polls are out, except for Roy Morgan, which will presumably be out later today. Here are how the blocs sit (assuming […]
Key to work rights activist: you’re an idiot
You know, you can fly around acting all presidential if you like in a cheap attempt to wow the press gallery but that […]
Video: Get the vote out
Want a say in who will run the country – let’s get the vote out. Just as long as they know it’s Saturday […]
More unemployed but more employed too
Unemployment has risen to 4.2%, the first time in four years it has topped 4%. That’s lower than the experts expected, they thought […]
Greens’ closing broadcast
Via frogblog, the Greens’ closing campaign broadcast. I’d put Labour’s up too, but I can’t find it.
Pigs in muck
Yesterday, John Key was telling journalists that he knew the secret agenda taper, Kees Keizer, was a Labour Party activist. In fact, he […]
Shock revelation: Taper is Wellington Leftie
The secret taper has revealed himself as Kees Keizer, a leftie from Wellington. I spent quite a bit of time yesterday encouraging Keizer […]
Context
Yesterday morning on Sunrise, John Key was moaning that there is no context to the latest secret agenda tape, where Bill English praises […]
Clark makes it 2 from 3
The debate was Clark’s. The format and tone suited her. Her softer approach, which showed us the person behind the role was very […]
Fact checkin’ 3
Good debate so far, addressing the issues and the policies, rather than the politics, which the other two debates have been focused on. […]
Another politician caught in taping sting
US election thread
Ok, so all the action can be followed on the US sites but I’ll set up this post for comments you might like […]
Democracy under attack
From Both Eyes Open: National Party candidate Stephen Franks’ campaign team has been systematically tearing down political posters put up by his opponents […]
The Nats on Iraq
The Nats have had two responses to English’s “pull the trigger” comments revealed last night: first the taping itself was branded a “dirty […]
Where are the polls?
I know, they’re inaccurate and out of date. And it’s only three days until the only poll that counts. But I’m curious! It’s […]
Pork barrelling from the Nats
One of the virtues of New Zealand government has long been that we avoid US-style pork barrel politics. The Government sets the direction […]
Key, still telling lies
Ahead of the final leaders’ debate tonight, 08wire has produced a video on John Key’s lies in the second debate. What strikes me […]
Guest Post: QoT – Mmm, delicious linear time
I loved this post for QoT so much that I asked to reproduce it in full here. It resonated with me after reading […]
English “worried” about Obama
More from 3News tonight on the secret recordings taken at the Naitonal Party conference in August. This time it’s Bill English expressing concern over […]