The Standard Week: 12-19 September
Work rights and judgement look to be central issues in the campaign. The Greens set the standard by putting forward a fantastic work […]
Unacceptable
From Newzblog: “Local activist James Sleep was today exercising his democratic right to protest when he was approached by an entourage of 4WDs […]
Compliments and questions
First, it’s nice to be pleasantly surprised by a tory. Turns out Tony Friedlander’s Road Transport Trust is not just donating to National. […]
ACT’s fifth Candidate?
The word around the traps is that ACT will be announcing the name of its mystery 5th list candidate at its Law and […]
Key on scrapping four weeks annual leave
Thanks to the wonders of Scoopit I’ve just come across this old TVNZ footage of John Key’s first day as National’s finance spokesman. […]
Burned
Under the headline “National MP ‘least prefered’ in own website opinion poll” the Kapiti News reports that Nathan Guy trails Darren Hughes 5% […]
Greens good for workers
Work rights should be a big issue this election. National is proposing to strip workers of their rights to undermine wage increases. The […]
Key still wishes we had invaded Iraq
Helen Clark made foreign policy judgement a campaign issue today when she told a Grey Power meeting that if New Zealand had invaded […]
Hooton hits rock bottom
Matthew Hooton lies for a living. He was one of the architects of Don Brash’s deceptive, racist campaign in 2005, he has told […]
Poor
I’ve just come across Labour’s tragic new campaign website, Labour08.co.nz, and I’m of the firm opinion that someone needs to get their shit […]
The descent continues
I sometimes have Fox News on in the background when I’m home, it’s good to get wound up now and again. So, I’m […]
More slippery attacks, still no solutions
Yesterday, John Key “attacked Labour’s economic record, which he said amounted to overtaxing voters so it could put money into its pet projects” […]
Billboard ideas for Left and Right
I see the National billboard on the corner of Dixon and Victoria in Wellington is already down. Are they pulling them all because […]
Jessica Alba says “Declare Yourself”
Some commentators have pondered whether an election in NZ so close to the election in the States should be a concern for Labour. […]
Video: health policy like you’ve never seen it
Fair to say this is video is pretty much out there…
National Monopoly
Just came across this on G.Blog. Pure gold: ps. Is that Winston in the bottom left corner?
Chutzpah
When the EPMU released its investigation notes on Shawn Tan it was obvious that some right-wing bloggers would seize on the fact that […]
How would Nats cut tax? Where would the money come from?
Bill English has confirmed that National still intends to give the average worker a $50 tax cut. That’s $18 a week more than […]
Nats’ dirty tricks exposed?
Cameron Slater, aka Whaleoil, is a nasty piece of work. If you’re a leftie and you get into the media, he’ll dig whatever […]
Old battles
When John Key responded to the PM’s announcement of the election date on Friday he stated: This election is not about the past. […]
Nothing to Hide? + more moaning
Prime is running a series of interviews every Sunday until the election with the leader of each party in Parliament, starting with Rodney […]
Video: Slippery as a snake
08 wire are staying on the case – coming to a screen near you:
Govts do keep promises, some more than others
It’s an old saw among those who think knee-jerk cynicism is a replacement for healthy skepticism that politicians always break their promises. That’s […]
Rochelle, that was pretty good.
Well it turns out my niece has been having fun and done an effective google bomb on John Key. I’ve just been watching […]
Disappointing
I just have to say, it’s incredibly disappointing that a simple prank, a google bomb, gets three newspaper articles and coverage on TV3 […]
To ask the real questions, you have to know the details
Agenda this morning showed, in several ways, that if you want to ask difficult questions, you have to know your topic. Guyon Espiner […]
MSM columns – clueless about fact checking
This week the election was announced and the third question to the PM (asked by Colin Espiner) was about whether The Standard possibly […]
No policy?
A reader just sent us the screenshot below with the attached explanation: Thought I should start to read up on some of the […]
Negative vs dirty
There’s an important difference between negative campaigning and dirty tricks but it already seems the two are getting confused in the media. Negative […]
The Standard Week: September 5 – 12
The election date was announced as November the 8th. Everyone had worked that out based on the available dates. But that didn’t stop […]
Booed on boot camps
It’s not John Key’s week really. Winston disappears like magic off the front pages (I honestly thought I had time travelled somehow when […]
You dicks
Anyway, Tane sees the article on Stuff that the election date is going to be announced. He puts up a post about it […]
Election date to be announced
So, Helen Clark is expected to announce the election date at 12.30. $20 says it’s November 8. UPDATE: The 8th it is. I’ll […]
A new champion
Finally, from realestate.co.nz, we have an example of illiteracy to rival National’s billboards: I blame Labour’s failing education system. [Hat-tip: Matthew Pilott.]
On morality
The Catholic Church has called for politicans to take a ‘moral stand’ on abortion, adoption by same-sex couples, gambling, embryonic stem-cell research, and euthanasia. […]
National: for a more confused future
On Sunday, John Key, apparently off-the-cuff, announced he would dismantle the Families Commission and give the money to church groups, who just happened […]