Thankfully most National Party MPs appear to be aware, from comments made, that the thrashing they received last Saturday was a wake-up call. This is a first step in the right direction. The next step is to realise that caucus and party unity are paramount. The behaviour of a
I’m quite fond of Mike Williams in a funny sort of way. He comes across as a loveable sort as in a cuddly teddy bear. His face wouldn’t go amiss on a packet of Huggies nappies. Just picture it, a lovely smile, every child’s idea of an
As many of us on The BFD are aware, days before the election, The Australian newspaper took aim at Jacinda with their foreign editor saying she was a “poor Prime Minister” and undeserving of her widespread acclaim. Most of us here would agree. But shock, horror; post election, our cousins
The National Party has suffered one of the heaviest defeats in its history. This defeat was partly, though not entirely, of its own making. It is obvious that there is a need for National to be a far more disciplined unit. Leaks must stop, blunders must be avoided and there
Ardern called it the Covid Election. If it was a horse race you would say the frivolous fraudulent filly beat the tried and true thoroughbred. The win was not unexpected as by ensuring all the others in the race had more hurdles to jump than she did Ardern guaranteed herself
I recently had the privilege of reading the Prime Minister’s speech from the Wellington Labour Party Rally. I am sure the civil servants in their cardigans lapped it up like kittens drinking milk out of a bowl. Mittens the cat actually got a mention as evidently one of those
Jacinda has called it a COVID election which means that this election in her view is all about a virus. She probably doesn’t realise it but it appears she has made it a virus election on more than one count. The word virus has a number of synonyms. One
I have just read the various election policies of the Maori Party. In all areas, they want a separate system in place for Maori funded by taxpayers of course. Their idea appears to focus on the fact that if they have a system whereby Maori are exempt from the rules
On Tuesday night Christchurch suffered another earthquake. It was a significant one. On the Richter scale, it probably would have registered a ten. This was not an earthquake of the type that damages buildings and roads. This was an earthquake of the type that shatters democracy, the ability to speak
Since the photo of Judith Collins praying in a church was published there have been many points of view expressed as to the rights and wrongs and possible motives or otherwise. I must admit to feeling a little uncomfortable when I first saw it. I was unsure why to start
Jacinda has said so. In amongst her 1 pm electioneering stunt, she said Aucklanders and New Zealanders (her team of five million) have stuck to the plan that has worked twice now and beat the virus again. “We put our heads down and we got on with it”. One thing’
We have now had two leaders’ debates. Before getting to the performance of the two leaders I must pay a compliment to the moderators, John Campbell and Paddy Gower, neither of whom along with Jacinda normally light my fire. But credit where credit is due. Campbell, as Mike Hosking pointed
With humble apologies to Stu P.D. Lefthard, Ardern and Labour are a joke. They sit around, not capable of having an original idea in their collective noddles, and wait for National to release a policy, then pretty much copy it. If this is their so-called strategy it’s
I feel I must complain about the writer of a Letter to the Editor: A Complaint, a gentleman who goes by the name of Stu P.D. Leftward. Stu appears to be in something of a stew regarding my articles. He appears to be under the misapprehension that I am
It has to be said that the Greens are a weird bunch, a mix of looney man-made climate change nutters and loopy socialist activists. The one thing they have in common is the desire to tax middle and higher-income earners to the hilt. They openly admit that tax
An article in the Business section of the Weekend Herald caught my eye. It was a comment piece written by Bruce Cotterill. Cotterill is a company director and an adviser to business leaders. The question he asked was – Where are leaders as NZ crumbles? That’s what really caught my
