This Government, through its own, incompetence, stupidity, mandates, obsession with control, fixation with fear and dictatorial rule has all but run out of public goodwill. They are showing, as are other political parties, that they cannot read the room. They seem to have trouble connecting with where public opinion is
Information Opinion You’ve got to hand it to this Government. Since gaining the Treasury Benches every idea they’ve had to improve any given situation has had the opposite effect i.e made it worse. Think welfare, housing, education, health, transport, RATs, you name it they’ve made it
When it comes to newspapers my weekly routine is to buy the Weekend Herald. The variety of content makes it a better buy than its weekly counterpart. On the whole, the Herald is a shadow of its former self. On Tuesday, while at the Superette, in a moment of stupidity
Every three years we elect 120 people to become Members of Parliament. Their job is to run the country to the best of their ability. Their pay packets, by most workers standards, reflects the importance of the tasks they have been elected to undertake. For example, Jacinda Ardern receives a
Trevor Mallard has single-handedly made a right duck of himself. People with his type of personality rarely get any given situation correct. They are unable to think in a measured way. Their first instinct is to go for the jugular to, metaphorically speaking, beat your opponent up. Although, if my
It is becoming more and more obvious that those increasingly strange human beings in our Parliament, known to us as Members of Parliament, are now the Cowards of the Country. Who would have thought that those we elected to provide leadership could have failed so miserably to do just that?
There are 120 Members of Parliament that make up the House. That is way too many for a start. On the basis of a population of around five million that works out to around one MP per 42,000 people. To illustrate the absurdity of the numbers let’s draw
I have just read Mike Munro’s article in the Weekend Herald. The thrust of the piece is about the hard yakka that’s about to hit Chris Luxon with the opening of Parliament this week. The big problem for Luxon, according to Mike, is that he’s going to
I am aware of someone ‘in the know’ who has said that the Government has gone ahead with the dopey light rail idea on the basis of ‘it’s their philosophy’. The other reason is that (as Heather du Plessis-Allan pointed out), this was Jacinda Ardern’s promise which she
This government seems oblivious to what is going on in Auckland. We are supposed to be in level three but the reality is quite the opposite. There is no level three, apart from the closure of businesses, not even remotely level two. In my neck of the woods around the
The National Party, its leader and its MPs appear still to not have their political antennae in tune with public sentiment when it comes to Covid messaging. This was borne out last Sunday following the special press conference called to make the entire country the same colour as the government
A trip up to town earlier this week led to the discovery of the resealing of a road near our city pad. We were diverted accordingly which had me thinking that the detour of the bus would have made it miss a sizeable chunk of its normal route. Intrigued as
I have been reading the well researched and written book He Puapua. The further into the book you get the more obvious it becomes that this country is basically run out of New York. I suppose we should not be surprised for a number of reasons. The first is that
The Prime Minister appears hell-bent on implementing her Marxist agenda. Like every other agenda of its type, it is glaringly obvious that it isn’t going to work. Fanciful ideas rarely do. It is over two years to the next election, and if they last that long this government will
We live, or I thought we did, in a democracy. As far as I am aware we still have two laws to protect the rights and freedoms of the individual: the Human Rights Act and the Bill of Rights. Labour seized the opportunity to use the Covid pandemic for their
Information Opinion The continuing downward slide in the polls should have alarm bells ringing in the hallowed halls of Fraser House and in the offices of Labour MPs in the Beehive but this, in all probability, will not be happening. There are a number of reasons: Firstly, they are so
