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Xavier Theodore Reginald Ordinary

Xavier T.R Ordinary has been involved in New Zealand politics for over 40 years as a political activist, commentator and strategist. The name Xavier Theodore Reginald Ordinary has been chosen with ton

Whose POCKET IS Simon Bridges in?

Whose POCKET IS Simon Bridges in?

Last night the news broke that National’s donation scandal is a whole lot worse than National was letting on. Not only do the charges relate to the original $100,000 donation highlighted by whistle-blower Jami-Lee Ross, but it appears there was another $100,000 donation as well: The Serious

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Busting the Housing Crisis Myth

Busting the Housing Crisis Myth

Ashley Church explains why it is a myth that there is a housing crisis: Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the past few years you’ve heard about the shortage of housing in New Zealand. There are variations of the view but the most popular version claims

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The Sanctimonious Arse of Journalists

The Sanctimonious Arse of Journalists

The muck-rakers’ union is upset that someone had the temerity to do to a couple of shifty journalists that which they do themselves all the time to people whose lives they want to wreck with their “public interest” stories. The journalists union, E tu is seeking an assurance from New

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Simple Simon Seems Confused
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Simple Simon Seems Confused

Simon Bridges is all over the show regarding working with Winston Peters. Just last week he said he couldn’t trust Winston Peters and ruled out the possibility of a deal to form a government: “I can’t trust New Zealand First and don’t think New Zealanders can either,

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Net Approvals Sinking Simon
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Net Approvals Sinking Simon

The poll news just keeps getting worse for Simon Bridges. Newshub/Reid Research have released their favourability ratings and Simon Bridges is almost as bad as Jeremy Corbyn: The latest Newshub-Reid Research poll has revealed New Zealanders’ thoughts  on Simon Bridges and Jacinda Ardern‘s performance – and the Prime  Minister

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Bridges Backtracking on Ruling Winston out

Showing precisely what we have long suspected, that Simon Bridges has the spine of a jellyfish, he has started walking back his declaration ruling out Winston Peters and NZ First: Bridges ruled-out NZ First at his caucus retreat in early February, saying he couldn’t trust the party. “I don’

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Nat Rats Abandon Ship

Nat Rats Abandon Ship

National’s rats are quickly abandoning ship ahead of the next election. First up it looks like for the National party two Chinese are better than two white MPs from the South Island. Long-standing Christchurch MPs Nicky Wagner and David Carter will retire at this year’s election. The two

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Dirty Deeds Done with Sheep
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Dirty Deeds Done with Sheep

Richard Harman has done some sterling work in exposing the dirty deals done with sheep by Murray McCully. The details are finally public and it isn’t very good reading for a supposedly least corrupt country in the world: The CEOs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade and

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NZ First Calls In the Police

NZ First Calls In the Police

Lester Gray has been busily leaking documents to media in order to get even with NZ First. We outed his friendly media hacks last week and now he is going to find himself having his collar felt: NZ First leader Winston Peters has asked his party’s president to prepare

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National’s Death List to Watch
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National’s Death List to Watch

Keep this post handy, because it shows the risk to National MPs as their party vote slumps. Last election National wound up on 44% which gave them 40 electorate MPs and 15 List MPs. Every percentage point they drop means some MPs won’t be returning to parliament. Right now

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