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More like the Pot Calling the Kettle Black, Mike

More like the Pot Calling the Kettle Black, Mike

Mike Munro, writing in the Weekend Herald, as usual, did not fail to disappoint. To most people this government has been the worst in living memory, but not to Mike Munro. On Munro’s bucket list of people to criticise is one, not unsurprisingly, Christopher Luxon.  Mike is convinced that

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Labour Continues to Spend Our Money Hand over Fist

Labour Continues to Spend Our Money Hand over Fist

David Seymour has another Ministry to blow up, or to put it more kindly, dispense with. Oh, wait, no he hasn’t, it’s the same one he targeted last time. The Ministry of Pacific Islands Peoples. I have to admit it’s not needed, along with a number of

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Addicted to Tax and Spend
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Addicted to Tax and Spend

Labour and the Greens, in fact, the political left globally, are addicted to two things: tax and spend. The more they tax, the more they spend. So we end up as a country like a dog chasing its tail because the tax take, no matter how much, is never enough

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The Phone Is off the Hook

The Phone Is off the Hook

The good(?) ship Labour is heading for the rocks. There’s a tidal wave approaching and it is expected to hit on October 14. This is currently the big story for journalists and they are painfully aware of it. No matter how much bias they cook up, no matter how

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The PREFU Reveals Things Are Far from Perfect

The pre-election opening of the books read a bit like a Mills and Boon romantic fiction novel, and, in terms of not being able to confidently make predictions, they are to a degree, fiction. However, what predictions there might be were certainly not romantic. There is no doubt that a

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The News Media Need to Keep Up

The News Media Need to Keep Up

I have news for the news media. They are flogging a dead horse. Their favourite nag, the Labour Party, has broken down. It’ll be lucky to get near the starting gates, never mind start. The hurdle to jump, the election, is a jump too high. All bets are on

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Getting on with the Job

Getting on with the Job

In my last article I was somewhat critical of National for its strategies and some of its policies not being sufficiently in tune with its core voter base. That was not to detract from the fact that a National/ACT coalition will form the next Government. One thing I think

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Claire Trevett Trying to Keep Chippie Crisp

Claire Trevett Trying to Keep Chippie Crisp

Claire Trevett, if her article in the Weekend Herald is anything to go by, seems to think Labour are still in the game. I hate to give her the bad news re Chippie, but the chips are down and the man and his party are gone-burgers. She says the days

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New Zealand’s Nasties: Labour and the Unions

New Zealand’s Nasties: Labour and the Unions

The Labour Party and its union bosses have chosen, unsurprisingly, to show their nasty side. The unions are aware the politicians they support have turned out to be no more than a bunch of incompetent losers. Their answer is to attack. It’s not to attack in a constructive way,

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A National Win Should be There for the Taking

Except it isn’t, is it? Not according to the polls. The Roy Morgan poll had National at a measly, under the circumstances, 31. This is a decrease on the previous month while ACT, its coalition partner is up plus 4 to 18. This poll was the most accurate regarding

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Alf Could Have Done a Better Job

I am aware bus drivers rarely handle money these days but when they do, the money they are handed and the change given have to add up. When it comes to driver Alf’s partner, Finance Minister Grant Robertson, things don’t add up. While Alf is dealing in small

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By Gum, Grant Becomes the Tooth Fairy
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By Gum, Grant Becomes the Tooth Fairy

In order to try and put some teeth into its flagging and ultimately floored campaign, Labour has decided to give free dental care to everyone under thirty. Eventually. It is a bit like pulling teeth because 18 to 23-year-olds have to wait until 2025 and 24 to 30-year-olds don’t

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It Is Willie’s Way of Thinking
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It Is Willie’s Way of Thinking

Let me say at the outset that it is not my intention to be overly harsh in my critique on Willie Jackson, but it is hard to take the man seriously, except on the issue of Maori rights otherwise known as co-governance: it is important to take him seriously in

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NZ Needs More PC Plods

NZ Needs More PC Plods

In case anyone is in any doubt, the PC stands for Police Constables and not Politically Correct. Thanks to this Labour Government there are probably too many of the latter already. I’m not suggesting police want to be PC but I am somewhat suspicious of the guidelines under which

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One Country, One People, One Law
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One Country, One People, One Law

Why on earth does the National leader, Christopher Luxon, bother to go to Ngaruawahia? Is it a case of if you don’t go you’re insulting your supposed hosts, and if you do go it’s their chance to insult you? Regardless, it serves no useful purpose. ACT and

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The Paths of Glory Lead to the Grave
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The Paths of Glory Lead to the Grave

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray was arguably the most popular poem of the 18th century. An elegy is a burial hymn and such a one might be suitable for Labour on October 14. In fact, there are a couple of verses from the poem that might

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