On Wednesday afternoon I, along with a couple of others, had the pleasure of meeting with the Leader of the National Party, Judith Collins. We were getting together to discuss a proposal we had to assist National to win the next election, particularly in relation to recapturing the rural vote.
Reading two articles relating to the Budget in the Weekend Herald served to illustrate the different thought processes of the right and the left on matters of a political and economic nature. One was by journalist Claire Trevett; the other by Steven Joyce, a man with a good dose of
What an unbelievable Newshub poll. After all the bad news the Government has had, particularly over the past few weeks and before, Tova O’Brien managed to report on a poll that was right up her alley. The only thing she failed to report in her orgasmic presentation was that
I believe the political winds of change are starting to blow. It might just be a breeze at the moment but it has the potential to be much more. Surprisingly, or maybe not, the breeze has been caused, not by the Opposition, but by the stupidity of the Government itself.
Jacinda Ardern appears to be under the misapprehension that her plan to give Maori separatism in most areas of government is a partnership. I am undecided whether this use of the word came from a misinterpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi, whether she misunderstood it from the dictionary or perhaps
The 2023 election will be the most pivotal this country has held in living memory. A further term of Labour and the Greens will see the country become unrecognisable in terms of how a democratic country should operate. Jacinda Ardern, as she has proven on Mike Hosking’s programme, might
In using the word connivance I’m not suggesting that the implementation of the Te Huia Hamilton to Auckland train service was in any way an unlawful act other than perhaps in the wider context of wasting taxpayers’ hard-earned money. What I am suggesting is that the transport entities involved
A discussion is very much needed of both Nanaia Mahuta’s speech and New Zealand’s participation in Five Eyes. There has been considerable commentary from politicians and those in the media, some a little surprising. Two factors are at play here. One is the responsibility incurred when a country,
It is becoming increasingly obvious that this government has decided it knows best in virtually every area of governance. It doesn’t matter whether it is health, education, transport, housing, foreign affairs, finance, justice, police, welfare, climate change or any other area; where they have had advice given to them,
Reading the Weekend Herald, it was hard to find anyone that had a good thing to say about this Labour Government. In fact, I don’t think there was anybody. When one can’t find an article in a newspaper as biased as the NZ Herald favouring the Government, one
Labour MP and Minister for Maori Development Willie Jackson has to be the joker in the political pack of cards. The card he most often likes to pull out he dealt again at the weekend on The Nation: The institutionalised racism card. It’s the one that he favours because
An opinion piece by Claire Trevett in Thursday’s Herald was very revealing. Revealing in the sense that she seems to know a lot about what is going on behind the scenes in the National Party. Reading her article one could be forgiven for thinking she knows more than the
According to an article in the NZ Herald, there is one truancy officer for 80 schools in Waitemata East. The details are contained in a police truancy overview for the Waitemata District obtained by the Herald from July last year. It found that just under two-thirds of students – 62 per
The wheels are falling off Labour’s Auckland transport policies. They are steering Auckland in the wrong direction. Their priorities mean that further chaos is inevitable down the road. Hopefully, not Dominion Road, unless the loopy light rail project gets the green light. The idea of a tram on Dominion
It has been obvious pretty much from the outset that we have in power a government in name only. All these people know is their ideology. It doesn’t matter to them whether their ideology is applicable to solving a particular problem or not, they implement it regardless because it
The word Government is a complete misnomer for the Labour Party. It’s akin to comparing Megan Markle with the truth. There is no relationship between the two. To use the word Government in its true sense when talking about Ardern and her mob of misfits is an abuse of
