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
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
Both ‘Pravda’ One News and ‘Fake’ Newshub did a paid Labour Party hit job on National on Tuesday night by deliberately twisting Paul Goldsmith’s comments on colonisation. The comment he made that overall Maori had benefited from colonisation is incontestably patently correct. Anyone trying to deny that fact is
Sunday afternoon, a long weekend and time for a bit of net surfing. I fancied I was on a boring exercise but no, I caught an unexpected wave. The wave was rather a tempestuous one in the form of Andrea Vance, a senior journalist with Stuff. It appears her waters
New Zealand is badly in need of a government that understands good decision making and the economic consequences of those decisions. We have not had one since late 2017. The current lot of reprobates are 69 individuals, playing at being in charge and having no idea of how to go
It appears at the weekend a new bikie gang emerged. They don’t appear to have a name so I will give them one – The Lawbreakers. These half-brained clueless clots appear to think that the way to get other road users on their side is to deliberately harass and inconvenience
I watched a video of a Kiwi based in America, Trevor Loudon, who is with Epoch TV. Trevor did a sixteen-minute piece entitled “The Real Jacinda Ardern”. In this he highlighted the many former communist, now so-called socialist, friends Ardern has cultivated over the years. He backed up his naming
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
