Press Release: ACT Party “A consensus is growing for a Wellbeing Approach to tackling COVID-19 with the Director-General of the World Health Organisation calling lockdowns unsustainable,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. Yesterday, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said: ‘We must all learn to control and manage this virus using the tools
What is it with this Government that it appears to have such an aversion to telling the truth? We have been, for months now, subjected to a daily diet of BS from the so-called pulpit of truth otherwise known as the one o’clock electioneering broadcast. Virtually nothing that is
Press Release: Act Party “The Prime Minister is politicising the public service by making Labour Party campaign videos featuring public servants,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “It’s completely unacceptable for campaign videos to be filmed inside the Ministry of Health featuring public servants including the Director-General of Health Ashley
The outcome of the harshest lockdowns in Australasia is now apparent in Victoria and New Zealand. Both placed their citizens under virtual house arrest for many weeks and shut down business on a mass scale. It is no surprise that Victoria and New Zealand are ruled by people representing the
I can’t help feeling that the economic tsunami (to misquote Chris Hipkins) is swirling around below the surface just waiting to erupt sometime soon, but it just hasn’t quite got there yet. Whether or not it will finally show itself before the election is anyone’s guess. That
Pretty sure I’m preaching to the converted on this subject and on this site but a word of warning: if you rely on the MSM (or Chloe Swarbrick) for accurate information on the overseas experience of legalizing commercially grown cannabis you are being misled. John Lord is an ex-New
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com “There is one source of truth… and that’s the announcements we make here” Chris Hipkins, Minister of Health, Beehive Press Conference 14 August. On Monday, the Prime Minister announced that the General Election will be delayed for a month. It will now be held
Information Satire This has been the ‘WEEK THAT WAS’. Some of the pixie dust has fallen off the Princess. Those who were blinded by the Cult of the RED QUEEN have had the scales fall from their eyes, journos and profs alike. MICHAEL THE ARCH ANGEL (Morrah) has been sent
Dr Oliver Hartwich nzinitiative.org.nz The Prime Minister has declared this year’s election, now postponed until October, a “COVID election.” That is an unfortunate framing. Though dealing with COVID is crucial for the country’s short- to mid-term future, there are plenty of other attention-deserving issues like education,
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This very recent video about the Greens by c mccoy is well worth a watch. It reveals some very interesting links between them and an organisation and activist written about many times previously by writers on the blog Whaleoil. If it were any other MP repping an extremist organisation with
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I think I’ve got my finger on why the government fails at everything they touch with the exception of PR where, to the country’s detriment, they excel. The government is understaffed. We know it because Chris Hipkins is swamped with four ministerial portfolios, three select committees and the
Chris Hipkins has admitted that he hasn’t yet bothered to read the Ministry of Health’s testing strategy. Wait! What? There are two strategies for testing? How can there be a Government testing strategy that is different from the Ministry of Health’s testing strategy? So, let’s get
“Politics is f*****,” says Chlöe Swarbrick. “Parliament is a toxic culture that chews people up and spits them out. You become inhuman and disconnected from the people you purport to represent.” “I am totally robust to criticism around policy, but not constant personal attacks.” She says she tries to brush
