Oh my, it seems like my good friend Brian Edwards is thinking of voting National this election. He posted this on Facebook: ON THINKING OF DOING THE UNTHINKABLE As Judy and I saunter up Shelly Beach Road in Herne Bay each morning, on our way to morning coffee in Ponsonby,
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com New Zealand and America have elections scheduled for November. Both countries are dealing with a covid crisis, in America’s case for a number of reasons, of far greater dimension than ours. But compare the media coverage. In America it’s almost totally about the
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The bureaucratic class is an incestuous beast whose gluttony is never satisfied. We’ve all seen it in action: a company “restructures” and “downsizes” and, by some strange miracle, coalface workers are either laid off or expected to do more and more work with less and less people, but the
Election, voting age Henry Cooke and Luke Malpass (Stuff): Public still backing Government and Jacinda Ardern despite second outbreak, new poll shows Liu Chen (RNZ): Poll shows large majority of Chinese New Zealanders still favour National over Labour Claire Trevett (Herald): Judith Collins, Jacinda Ardern and the virus blame game
Willie Jackson has leapt to the defence of Jacinda Ardern after she was excoriated by Mike Hosking on Tuesday. Bizarrely, he has suggested that though the government welcomes scrutiny it really only wants “reasonable” scrutiny. Labour MP Willie Jackson has hit out at “shock jock” Mike Hosking after the Newstalk
This Government welcomes reasonable scrutiny! But that’s not what Mike Hosking was doing with Jacinda this morning on ZB. His framing of every issue he challenged Jacinda on was skewed towards the most negative possible assessment of her intentions. Hosking began by trying to blame the pandemic on the
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Questions to Ministers 1. Hon JUDITH COLLINS to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by her statement that the reason the Government will not extend the wage subsidy to cover the additional four days of lockdown is because “it would require an entirely different process and regime”? 2. GREG O’
Transcript from 07:16, 25 August 2020, NewstalkZB Mike Hosking Do you look to take over in some way shape or form either the Tauranga City Council or the Invercargill City Council? Jacinda Ardern Why on earth are you making such a suggestion? MH Because the Department has written to
