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
At the end of each month, The BFD puts up a new poll with the same question so that we can track changes in voters’ preferences in the lead up to the election on October 17th. Each month we will analyse the previous month’s results so that we can
SFO NZ First decision RNZ: Checkpoint: NZ First Foundation arrangement ‘unprecedented’ – law expert Luke Malpass (Stuff): Serious Fraud Office charges may be final blow for NZ First Audrey Young (Herald): Winston Peters draws on his best defence against SFO, attack (paywalled) Richard Harman (Politik): Campaign derailed David Farrar: SFO lays
I’ve been saying for years that we needed an Independent Commission Against Corruption. Our trading partners have them, even Fiji has the FICAC. Now Judith Collins has as good as announced that with an extension of the purview of the SFO and also a doubling of their budget. National
Did Julie Anne Genter just state that Maori are the main New Zealanders who illegally grow and sell cannabis? Why yes she did and even worse she thinks that is a good reason why we should make it legal because most criminals who commit this particular crime are Maori! If
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Dangling the carrot of a selective travel bubble with at least some parts of Australia might be seen as a sign of desperation from Jacinda Ardern, ahead of the October election. The proposed timing – “before Christmas” – is clearly designed to deliver maximum hope while delaying until after the election the
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Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com To date, thanks to the government and media’s disproportionate obsession with the corona virus, the normal election fervour has been missing in action. In these circumstances the historically unprecedented lop-sided polling becomes explicable. But with less than a month to go, I don’t
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Try as the government likes, they just can’t keep a good landlord down. That is because there are so few of them these days: they are a rapidly dying breed, exiting the market in droves and taking their tax free capital gains with them. But those that remain in
Mr Colourful A clickbait headline on Newshub got me watching Chloe Swarbrick talking about her cannabis referendum with the woke wombles on The Project. I suffered through it so you kind souls don’t have to ruin your days by being subjected to it. Chloe Swarbrick proves either A: politics’
1News Colmar Brunton poll Thomas Coughlan and Luke Malpass(Stuff): Spectre of Labour-Green coalition National’s worst nightmare Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): Labour needs Greens on latest One News poll (paywalled) Claire Trevett (Herald): Do the polls deliver a whisper of hope for National? (paywalled) David Farrar: Latest poll ————— 1News: 1
We’ve had two polls in two days. Both the Reid Research poll and the Colmar Brunton poll (ONCB) are now aligning and if you look at the positions of the two main parties from just a month ago it is clear there is now a trend emerging. For Labour,
