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I know, they’re inaccurate and out of date.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 […]
Look! Over there!
The latest secret tape has come out and it’s a classic example of the face of the National Party that John Key doesn’t […]
Vote smart: Winnie cleared but too late
New Zealand First has now been cleared by the Police or any illegal behaviour. That’s three from three but too late. I’ve never […]
Last days to get active
It’s great to see people still downloading materials from the Campaign Hub. With just over three days of campaigning to go, you’re running […]
Another Nat secret agenda tape
The Herald campaign updates reports that Clark has just had a private interview with TV3, appearently getting her response to the latest secret […]
Fresh ideas
Part 3 in the CTU’s series of election vids. The best yet You can see the other two here
Economy healthier than expected
The latest government accounts show the economy is in better condition than was expected. Tax take was $500 million higher than expected due […]
More vids from the campaign trail
We’ve just received these. The first is from Hollowman productions, who brought us the famous Porirua markets video. The second is a video […]
Mythbusting: Largest party must govern
Because the polls are showing a Labour, Greens, Progressives, Maori alliance could govern, National is crying that the largest party has some kind […]
Hypocrite
Watching Key tour Progressive Enterprises today was bad enough but watching him claim to support those workers in the leaders debate was sickening […]
Clark takes round 2
A much better performance from Clark saw her best Key in tonight’s debate. As well as being on top of all the issues, […]
Fact checkin’ round 2
It’s really good to see Clark taking Key to task on his lies this time: Key: productivity has halved under Labour. Lie. The […]
Text polls
Watching the TV3 debate and it seems they’re running another text poll. It’s too early yet to tell who’s going to win, but […]
Election Quiz
If you haven’t seen Pundit’s New Zealand election quiz you should head on over and take a look. It’s based on the award-winning […]
Wages still growing strongly
Despite the recession, wages have continued to grow at a record rate and, crucially, faster than inflation. The average hourly rate was up […]
Nats will only cut Kiwisaver by 44-49% -cries ASA
The Advertising Standards Authority’s decision that Labour’s Kiwisaver ad is inaccurate is ridiculous. 08wire’s vid shows why. The ASA admits in its decision […]
Advertising, getting it right and getting it wrong
Labour’s new ad is one of the best political ads I’ve seen. It’s just a really well written script: acknowledging the success of […]
How does ACT fit in?
I have my doubts about the veracity of Meurant’s statements as he is well known for bigging himself up as a hard man […]
Dunne’s deal?
The revelations in today’s Dompost that Peter Dunne’s United party took a donation from the Vela family shows again what a messy business […]
PSA tackles the stats
The PSA have put together some interesting numbers on the size of the public service. They appear to tell a different story to […]
Closing arguments
Six days to go. Here are the five big issues that I am finding can turn swing voters to the Left. There are […]