Maori Language Week is over. Thank the Lord. It seems to get worse every year. TV1 News is almost incomprehensible now. TV adverts have subtitles. Even the weather is read out in Maori, with a compliant but confused presenter and an even more confused audience. All of this is in
Jacinda Ardern labelled National’s tax policy as ‘desperate and reckless’, claiming that this is the wrong time to be allowing people to keep more of their own money by making them pay less tax. There is an argument either way, and while I don’t agree with it, the
National has struck a chord with its tax policy. Jacinda describes it as “desperate and reckless”. Lefties on Twitter are catatonic. They are claiming that National is promising people “free money”. Since when has being able to keep a bit more of your own earnings free money? Isn’t it
We cannot tax our way into prosperity. With the economic indicators of the last few days showing that we are in a deep recession and that unemployment is going to rise and remain with us for seven years, we need a government with a plan to grow the economy. Labour’
PREFU and the June quarter GDP numbers have been announced this week. Yes, we all knew the numbers were going to be bad. But how bad? Well, the answer is very bad, yet the media, on both occasions, has played it down, saying (quoting the politicians) that things are ‘not
You have to admit it. Jacinda is a master. She is streets ahead of everyone else in this election campaign. She campaigns just about every day, appearing on our screens at 1 pm, and if she can’t make it, usually due to her 3-day weekends, then one of her
We keep talking about it. COVID is going to create the worst recession in 160 years. Worse than the Great Depression of 1929. Worse than the downturn of the early 1990s. Definitely worse than the 2008 GFC. We are waiting for this economic tsunami to hit us, driving us all
It has really surprised me how compliant the New Zealand public has been over COVID. We have had most of our human rights and civil liberties taken away by a benign dictator who has persuaded us all that it is for our own good. Yes, the country is locked off
Labour has finally unveiled its election tax policy. To be honest, I didn’t think that they would; they have already said that this is a COVID election and made it clear they were not going to announce much if any, policy before the election. But they were being called
The scheme to ram Maoridom down our throats took a new turn with the announcement that Matariki was going to be celebrated with a new public holiday, so that we can all celebrate Maori culture and teachings. I was unaware that the celebration of the winter solstice was uniquely Maori,
If the Green school of crystals was not evidence enough of the crazy world the Greens think we should all be living in, then the latest bit of madness from local councils should have us all really worried. It seems that councils all across New Zealand are now required to
This is the COVID election. Let’s face it: there is nothing else. Labour has already stated that we should not expect any policy from them during the election campaign, as they are too busy stopping 80,000 of us from dying of the virus to worry about telling the
So we are confined to barracks for a further two weeks, in towns and cities that have not had a case of the virus since May, possibly even before that. I am utterly sick of the stupidity that is ruling this country at the moment. I have begun to suspect
I have always said that the Greens are people who live in an ideological world, but I have recently changed my view. Their world is not entirely ideological. It is, in fact, quite possible. They live in a world where there are cycle lanes everywhere, pop-up walkways, few cars (and
I’m back in Wellington, having spent a few weeks in the South Island. Last time I was here, we were in Level 1, and life was pretty much as normal, but not now. In spite of there being no cases in Wellington, and absolutely none in the South Island,
A friend posted this on Facebook the other day. It is from Willie Jackson: Willie Jackson Watching parliament today reminded me that this Government has been clear since this pandemic engulfed us that New Zealander’s must be prepared with masks in case of a second wave and when we
