Jacinda Ardern is leading a government that is now so far out of touch with public sentiment that, as the polls are starting to show, they have all but burnt their bridges. Their ministers seem ever more incompetent to the point where they look like they have no understanding of
The two most recent polls are good news for the right of centre parties in the sense that both show the gloss is coming off Ardern and Labour. The slide is on and, like Mallard’s one in Parliament’s grounds, it could prove to be expensive. In further good
Should we extend some pity towards Jack Tame? I believe so. Jack Tame is 34 years young. He is of a generation that, to be fair, doesn’t always have it easy. Trying to get on the housing ladder is no joke. But Jack has proven that he is just
I was about to write this piece when I came across Claire Trevett’s article in the Weekend Herald. I have to say there is usually not a lot that Claire and I can agree on but her article at the weekend was pretty much spot on. She wrote about
Both the Police Minister and the Commissioner appear either to have lost touch with reality or to be in denial. In fact this accusation could be made across the whole of government. They have lost touch because of their inability to deal with reality. Both the Minister and the Commissioner
Jack Tame, writing in the NZ Herald, has come to the conclusion that we are all hypocrites. I presume he included himself. I found much of his article’s narrative quite simplistic; in the sense that talk is cheap but the consequences of what is being spoken are often not
Love for Jacinda was effectively burnt to an ember on Friday. It is fair to say that a large majority of her so-called team of five million have turned against her. For every person that turned out, there will be thousands upon thousands who are thinking the same way. Ardern
Simon Wilson is one of those irritating journalists who can’t see past their own blinkered ideology. He writes drivel. It’s drivel because it does not deal in reality. He thinks it is real because in his worldview we are either going to be burnt to a cinder or
The UMR poll deliberately released last week appeared designed to be a hit job on Judith Collins. Most of the press releases carried the headline ‘Unprecedented poll result as David Seymour overtakes National leader Judith Collins in new UMR poll’. According to UMR this was ‘unprecedented’, a statement proved incorrect
How convenient, even cynically coincidental, that a UMR poll was released a few days after the somewhat disastrous Roy Morgan poll showing support for Labour had plummeted into the thirties. Given the idiotic announcements from the government over the last few weeks, the result was hardly surprising. Roy Morgan does
The NZ Herald reports there are more than 80,000 job listings for the quarter ending June 30, 2021 according to data from TradeMe. Labour shortages across the country have led to fierce competition among employers for staff. TradeMe Jobs Director Matt Tolich described it as a job hunters’ market,
Ardern’s political philosophy at its most basic is all about control. This has become more evident this term as her electoral mandate allows her carte blanche to do whatever she wants. We can call her a socialist, a Marxist, even a communist and can point to some truth in
If I hadn’t been laid low with a winter bug I would have commented earlier, the subject being the editorial in last Saturday’s Weekend Herald. These days the authors never identify themselves and, if last week’s effort was anything to go by, with good reason. If anyone
Those of us who watch The Crown will have had their memories refreshed by the episodes featuring Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister. With basically an all-male cabinet and inner circle, she ruled with an iron fist, hence her nickname the Iron Lady. She took no nonsense from any of them
Two opinion pieces in the Weekend Herald made for interesting reading. One from Fran O’Sullivan, the other from Michael Cullen. In respect of Fran, I find myself disagreeing with her a little more often than I used to. As for Michael Cullen, pretty much permanent disagreement there folks. Both
As we are aware, this is a government devoid of talent. Business experience is as scarce as hen’s teeth, and as a result of their ignorance, they are not business-friendly. Community work or similar is not a qualification for the rigours of government, certainly not at ministerial level. This
