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 […]
Public politics
In today’s Herald six prominant NZer’s nail their political colours to the mast: Sir Paul Reeves: electorate vote Maori party, party vote Labour; […]
Vote smart: The Maori seats
Each of the Maori seats presents an opportunity for tactical voting for a left-wing voter. If you favour the Maori Party candidate in […]
SSTimes finds more $ in the pocket
From this mornings SSTimes: New research has revealed a dramatic reversal in financial fortunes for the average Kiwi family, which is now $60 better […]
Vote smart: The micro parties
Last election, 7,000 people gave their votes to very small left-wing parties that never had any chance of winning a seat in Parliament. […]
What a rag
A week out from the election, Granny Herald has still yet to do any proper coverage of the effects on individuals and the […]
End of Winston?
The Dominion Post has published some pretty damning evidence indicating Winston Peters’ connections with the Vela family. According to the Dom Winston’s right-hand […]
Side-show
I see the media are now comparing the ‘redundancy’ packages on offer with all of the horse race vigour they applied to the […]
Greenpeace converts John’s office
Some great political theatre from Greenpeace yesterday. A bunch of climate activists got up at the crack of dawn, plastered ready-made lawn around […]
Granny Herald yearns for good old days but democracy alive and well
The Herald is once again trying to convince us that everyone is so scared of the EFA that there is no poltiical participation […]
The Standard Week: 24-31 October
Two more examples of senior Nats hiding their conflicts of interest, in violation of Parliament’s rules, were revealed on The Standard this week. […]
Tories’ crack at socialism a poor substitute
National’s redundancy package would effectively continue Working for Families payments for some people who would otherwise lose them after redunancy. Only people who […]
Arseneau: Election too close to call
In her blog column Teresa Arseneau discusses the polls overall, and what happens if the largest party doesn’t form the government: Several of […]
Franks caught vandalising own billboards
In a strange twist in the Franks billboard monitoring saga, infra red camera footage has revealed that Franks himself was responsibile for defacing […]
Whose record is better?
I found it weird that National’s attack ad is a series of newspaper headlines. Everyone knows newspaper headlines are sensationalist and everyone knows […]
The Standard line: Nanny State
So, you’re talking with someone about politics and they say something really dumb and wrong and you know it’s wrong but you don’t […]
Not exactly Jon Stewart
A new facebook group has started up called “I am killing a kitten for every person who votes for the Green Party” (*) […]