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Not One, Not Two, but Three Layers of Tax
Morris 8 Morris 8 is a veteran motor industry insider, a small-c conservative, fiscally dry but socially liberal. Loves New Zealand, but hates the current slide towards separatism and socialism. Farmers and people living in rural New Zealand are upset about the proposed “ute tax” elements of the government’s
Cam’s Back on Insight!
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NZ Herald Literally Running Propaganda Campaigns for the Government Now
The NZ Herald claims that they are independent media. They even had to tell us that. Of course, everyone reading The BFD knows that explaining is losing. Nonetheless the NZ Herald is now officially a state propaganda publication after announcing they are running a campaign to encourage everyone to meet
Let’s Pretend We Care about the Sham
It is nothing more than a sham, a stupid pretence that we all supposedly care about the Maori language when most of us don’t. The six o’clock lefty political news hour is bad enough without having a load of gobbledygook that virtually none of us understand. We even
Propaganda Campaign of the Week
New Zealand needs to get vaccinated now to beat Delta – and that’s why the NZ Herald and NZME are launching The 90% Project today. A very high vaccination rate is vital for us to make our population safe from serious disease, keep our hospitals running and gradually allow our
Chaos Created by 90 Percent Target
David Seymour ACT Leader New Zealanders deserve to have clarity on what the vaccination target is and when we can get back to living our lives. When Director-General of Health Ashley Bloomfield said the target should be 90 per cent, he directly contradicted the COVID-19 Minister and the Prime Minister,
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More Maori Wonderfulness Even Re Gangsters
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The home invasion was “easily the most carefully planned and professionally executed aggravated robbery of its type I’m aware of in New Zealand”, so said Judge Thomas Ingram when jailing four Maori gang members for a house invasion in which they took $40. “Carefully
Arden Quietly Mothballs Her ‘A Game’ Elimination Strategy
Last year Jacinda Ardern promised the vaccine was our solution to the war on Covid-19, opening borders and ending lockdowns. Now that just about every other country is ahead of us in vaccine rollout, we can catch a glimpse of our future. Ardern et al gave us their “A Game”
Fifth Eye Blind to Strategic Reality
When you’ve just been handed a big poo sandwich, sometimes all you can do is grin and do your best to force it down. Make no mistake, the overnight announcement of an historic new alliance between Australia, the US and Britain is, for New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern, a
Hope Dies Last: The Politics of Fear
Yesterday morning I fielded a great many calls from mates who are doing it tough under the cruel and ongoing level four lockdown in Auckland. One was even in tears as he explained to me how his business simply will not recover after this lockdown. Others were expressing frustration that
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The Ridiculous Race Relations Head – Foolish Foon
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Auckland journalist, English-born Steve Kilgallon, over the years has called me for info’ on things I know about. He’s balanced and sensible and not a beat-up artist like so many in his trade. Thus when he recently wrote an expose about Race Relations Commissioner