Jacinda Ardern experienced considerable push back from Mike Hosking on his morning show yesterday. What is abundantly clear, is that she has no idea what her ministers are up to, especially in regard to the Tauranga situation. Further to that, she really doesn’t like to get surprised with non-
Economic response to Covid Kate MacNamara (Herald): Government mulls use of $400m fund to buy stakes in firms hurt by Covid 19 (paywalled) Debrin Foxcroft (Stuff): Companies refusing to apply for Government sick leave subsidy to cover workers David Fisher Herald): The Road Ahead: The missing piece in our Covid-
You have got to be joking? This is totally contrary to what the government has been telling us. On 23 June 2020 the Prime Minister answered a question from Todd Muller about this: 1. TODD MULLER (Leader of the Opposition) to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by her statement,
Some of the points made in the video are: 1. The government should have extended the wage subsidy for the four extra days that the restrictions will be ongoing. 2. National’s health spokesperson Dr Shane Reti has written – for the second time – to the health committee chair asking for
Dear Editor Ever heard the story of Emperor Nero burning down Rome? The story goes that he fiddled while it fell to ashes. They say he set it on fire himself. A myth on the fiddling part maybe, but Rome did burn. New Zealand’s government is effectively willfully burning
It is not often I refer to Stuff as a source of integrity but I will make an exception this morning. There is an excellent opinion piece by Damien Grant headed, PM’s abuse of power during lockdown a warning to us all. It is a must-read. I have
It will come as no comfort to Jacinda Ardern that her obfuscations of the last seven days haven’t gone un-noticed and yesterday’s piece by Bryce Edwards on The Democracy Project is a very good pastiche of the obvious holes in her handling of the border problems fall-
PM’s levels announcement, govt management of coronavirus Henry Cooke (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern faces little opposition to alert level extension Pattrick Smellie (BusinessDesk): A nervous week ahead for a suddenly vulnerable government (paywalled) Richard Harman (Politik): Covid “here for some time” say Ardern and Collins Tova O’Brien (Newshub): Experts
So, Jacinda Ardern tried her hand at turd polishing yesterday. That’s all you can describe her 3pm press conference as, turd polishing. We’re going to lock you down for a bit longer, but it’s good for you. Wink. As the Mythbusters proved, you can polish a turd,
The worm has finally turned as the government’s avalanche of failures is becoming too large for even the MSM to ignore least they look like complete lapdogs. The 50 Million dollars cash injection from the government can only go so far as the better journalists wrestle with their images
A friend posted this on Facebook the other day. It is from Willie Jackson: Willie Jackson Watching parliament today reminded me that this Government has been clear since this pandemic engulfed us that New Zealander’s must be prepared with masks in case of a second wave and when we
