Jordan Williams Executive Director New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union In the nearly seven years I’ve been running the Taxpayers’ Union, it’s fair to say the last few weeks have been the strangest. We totally rewrote our election campaign strategy following COVID the first time. We scrapped the election “Bribe-O-Meter”
A friend travelling to work on the first day back in lockdown said he was shocked at the huge police presence manning roadblocks to stop people entering and leaving Auckland City without good reason and controlling the huge volume of people waiting for COVID testing. Most of them were clueless,
Another way in which we know that ‘moderate’ and ‘conservative’ Jacinda Ardern is really a figure of the hard left is her disregard for the rule of law in her handling of the COVID ‘crisis’. It doesn’t seem to have concerned her that the first lockdown had no basis
Have a care for Chris Hipkins. He’s in the hot seat at the moment because the ‘COVID Queen’ Jacinda Ardern can’t ever be seen to deliver bad news, so it’s up to poor old ‘Chippy’. And there has been plenty of bad news of late. The virus
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will tell us the date of the election 10 am tomorrow Setting an election date is one of the few powers in New Zealand reserved exclusively to the prime minister. There’s no consulting NZ First, no calling the Greens – the decision is Ardern’s alone.
Information Satire BILLY THE KID: OUTLAW BILLY THE KID, (Billy Te Kahika) of the FRINGE GANG pre-empted the RED QUEEN’S announcement about us all being lasso’d up again by about three weeks. How did he know? The RODEO is going full tilt folks. That quill-dipper at the “Ferald”
The Prime Minister, the Government and the Director-General of Health would have us believe that last week’s announcement about masks and the Director General’s very public COVID test were just a coincidence and had nothing at all to do with the outbreak in South Auckland. To quote the
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We now find out there is every chance we have been locked down again because Ardern didn’t act hard and early with regard to testing of those working at the border. According to Michael Morrah from Newshub, as of a week ago, nearly two-thirds of Auckland’s COVID-19 border
Anyone else recognise Labour’s admission of failure in their transition from their 2017 election slogan of “Let’s Do This” to the limp wristed 2020 slogan “Let’s Keep Moving”? Given Labour didn’t keep their 2017 campaign promises this is very funny indeed. Does anyone know where they
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Jeffrey A. Tucker aier.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Editorial Director for the American Institute for Economic Research. He is the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and eight books in 5 languages, most recently The Market Loves You. He is also the editor
I have just come back from the supermarket, in a South Island town that never had a single case of COVID the first time around, let alone now. This is my first trip since the second phase of the new normal started on Wednesday. There was no queuing outside. There
Public health experts are slamming the debacle at the border: Auckland University Professor of Medicine Des Gorman rated the Government’s response as “somewhere between two and three” out of 10. “I’ve seen health systems manage medical emergencies worse than this but it takes some doing,” Gorman told Hosking.
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com The news that Auckland was being ordered into an Alert level 3 lockdown for three days, and the rest of New Zealand into Alert Level 2, came as a blow to a country that is still struggling to recover from a lockdown assessed as “the
