At the end of each month, The BFD will put up a new poll with the same question so that we can track changes in voters’ preferences in the lead up to the election on September 19th. Each month we will analyse the previous month’s results so that we
Australian feminists have erupted with their typical fishwife screeching because an ad has dared suggest that boys like looking at boobs. Feminists have decried as sexist an Australian KFC ad that shows a young woman inadvertently putting on a peep show for two boys as they sit in a parked
Wendy It’s unscientific, but the AM Show poll puts Bridges ahead of Ardern for the next PM. It seems that people are finally getting it. Policy is just as important as personality. Phew! Wednesday’s poll may be a snapshot in time and it’s early days but there
So Grant Robertson has announced a massive spend up on roads, especially in the north. On top of that, he’s given a sop to the Greens giving them $200m for decarbonisation but $690m for 22km of road to NZ First. Which one matters most? Clearly there is a disconnect
The Australian government is obviously heartily sick of being finger-wagged by the holier-than-thou Ardern government. Especially over climate change. At last year’s Pacific Island Forum, Jacinda Ardern repeatedly threw pointed sneers at Australia, and PM Scott Morrison in particular. Ardern smugly declared that “Australia has to
I had just come in from staking my tomato plants, covered in dirt having had to pull out yet more of that blasted convolvulus weed, when I went to The BFD’s secret hangout on the internet (you need an encrypted password that is 217 characters long and the blood
Labour’s year of delivery ended with way more welfare beneficiaries than when it began. Mike Yardley destroys the Prime Minister’s posturing on well being in just one article: As election year dawns, one of the biggest credibility challenges this government faces is their failure to combat some of
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchellblogspot.com Jacinda Ardern went to Ratana and told Maori she was working for their collective people and that the unemployment rate was dropping. Officially the latter is true. But that’s only half of the story. Here is the Maori unemployment rate from Statistics NZ data: However,
The “Stuffed” headline reads: “Hayley Holt’s baby is so wanted, it’s none of your business who the father is” I had to scratch my head. Who is Hayley Holt? If I have no idea who she is, her baby’s father probably doesn’t feature on my radar
Stuart Nash is the Police minister and also the Napier MP. He has overseen an explosion of gang members in his own patch that has meant that the Police have raised the white flag: “They have a new cohort of younger members. I don’t think the older hierarchy are
The TV1 newsreaders were agog last week with the startling news that there might… only MIGHT… be a deal on Ihumatao about to be announced. They made a few implications and shadowed promises, but it was all speculation really. It is not exactly surprising that the main TV bulletin of
Shane Jones must be over the target such is the triggered response to his comments at Ratana: At the annual gathering at Ratana pa last Friday, Shane Jones unleashed an unhinged attack on Pania Newton. He referred to Pania as, “a young putiputi (flower)” then doubled down on his diatribe
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