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Open Letter to the National Party
If one was to consider writing a manifesto the first rule would be to minimize the usage of clichés. When clichés were first uttered they were created by literary geniuses, but now they are phrases which are overused and betray the lack of an original thought. Just like the National
Want a Firearms Licence? Don’t Have the Wrong Opinions
Mike Loder Under the nation’s new gun laws Police will be able to decline an applicant from receiving a firearm license based on the political views of the individual. I have asked the Police Minister, Stuart Nash, just what would constitute an opinion ‘extreme’ enough to raise concerns. Both
The BFD Crybaby of the Week
rantykiwi This week’s snowflake award goes to a woman who is all bent out of shape about walking her kids past an adult shop and them having to see bondage items in the windows. She doesn’t want to have to explain it to them, but feels they may
Helen Clark vs Donald Trump
These two will never see eye to eye but if you expect a full-frontal attack from Helen Clark on the President of the United States for withdrawing funding from her beloved UN, you will be sorely disappointed. Quietly nipping at Trump’s heels is the only indication of Clark’
Rents Continue Their Upward Spiral
What happens when you have a chronic housing shortage, too few state houses and a government that continually comes out with landlord unfriendly policies? I have watched landlord after landlord sell their rental properties over the last few years, citing various reasons, but just about all of them are to
Jonesy Gives the ‘Aphid Lovers’ a Serve
Shane Jones is a bit of a rascal, and it is hard to fault him when he attacks Greenie Wombles. He’s given them a serve over opposition to a Wairarapa dam proposal: […] my colleague, the deputy leader of our party Fletcher Tabuteau the secretary – he’s been in Wairarapa
The BFD Face of the Day
Sheer incompetence’: District Health Boards continue financial nosedive into deficit NZ Herald
Even CNN Knows: Nancy Pelosi Has Lost the Impeachment Poker Match
There’s a grim joke doing the rounds of Meme-Land: what’s the difference between Jeffrey Epstein and the Democrats? Epstein didn’t hang himself. Even CNN, the epicentre of media Trump-derangement since 2016, can see what the Democrats apparently can’t: the Trump Impeachment is a slow
PM’s PR Agent Spills the Beans on Ardern’s SECRET Holiday, Courtesy of Compliant Media.
Wendy The headline on the latest NZ Herald opinion piece by recently minted journalist, the PM’s partner Clarke Gayford, signals that they had a secret holiday and he is going to spill the beans. Not so secret then? Notice how he is able to do his partner’s PR
Support for Minimum Wage from Subsidised ‘Business Owner’
Straight arrow Yesterday I came across a New Zealand “business owner” who tweeted support for the increase in the minimum wage and declared that they are already paying their employees a ” living wage.” Frustrated yesterday by ACTs tweet today saying that the raising of the minimum wage is detrimental to
Welcome to The BFD
A big warm Kiwi welcome to all our new BFD readers. Since our biggest ever breaking story published, The BFD has been flooded with thousands of overseas visitors mainly from America and Canada but also including other countries such as Australia and even interestingly Japan. As I type this, the
