Public Transport Fallacies and Middle Class Welfare
Good intentions are no substitute for good policy, yet questioning expensive subsidies is increasingly treated as a moral failing rather than a legitimate debate about priorities.
Labour Party
Labour’s $20 Fare Cap: Another Taxpayer-Funded Fantasy Ride
This $20 fare cap looks like just another ride on the taxpayer-funded gravy train, with the rest of New Zealand holding the ticket.
In Truth Nothing Is Free
The truth is there are no free lunches, no free fees at universities, no free visits to the GP and no free bus or train rides…but there are free elections. On November 7 make sure you don’t vote for this type of idiocy.
Labour’s List Seems To Be Defensive
The rankings reward loyalists, sideline potential rivals, and suggest Hipkins is more concerned about managing his caucus than rebuilding Labour.
Labour’s Public Transport Fare Cap: Another Taxpayer Handout for the Usual Suspects
Labour loves these targeted subsidies because they let them pick winners and losers while pretending to care about the cost of living.
Labour’s Dirty Deal with a Senior Cop Exposed: Secrecy Over Service
New Zealanders deserve better than this grubby politics as usual. Labour’s latest recruit arrives under a cloud of their own making. The public will not forget it.
Labour’s Nasty Underbelly Exposed in Leaked Audio
For a party that spent six years telling us they were kind and caring, this recording rips the mask off.
Hipkins Reckons Kiwis Don’t Care About Details in Labour’s Half Baked Future Fund
New Zealand has seen this movie before. Flashy announcements followed by vague costing and eventual disappointment. The Future Fund is simply the latest installment.
Labour’s Māori Seat Suicide Pact: Butt Hurt vs Butt Hurt in a Pre-Coalition Brawl
This contest is a genuine test of whether these two can ever function together. Labour needs the seats to get close to power. Te Pāti Māori needs to hold them to keep their leverage.
Talk About Underperforming and Underwhelming
Childish and churlish: that’s the calibre of the man who wants to resume the prime ministership come November.
Hipkins Caught Lying About Vaccine Risks – Explaining Is Losing, Chippy
Hipkins messed with people’s health and the truth is limping out. But, in politics, lies catch up and they bite hard.
Hipkins’ House of Cards: Ex-Wife’s Claims Expose Labour’s Desperate Smear Machine
He built this mess and now he wallows in it. His blanket denials could unravel him, especially if proof emerges. Recall my cardinal political rule: explaining is losing.
The Man Who Would Be King
Such are the skills of ‘the man who would be king prime minister’.
Hipkins’ State of the Nation Flop: No New Ideas, Just Old Failures and Empty Pockets
About the only thing Labour actually delivered last time round was eye-watering debt for the nation and high inflation. If you want more of that then by all means vote Labour.
Here To Change This Rotten Government
Given his propensity to shoot from the lip, Willie is well practised in retractions and back tracks.
This Is Just Selective Moral Outrage
Pick a standard, Chris: you can’t rail against Trump’s board for including Putin while comfortably ignoring the UN’s roster of human-rights violators. Moral clarity isn’t selective. It’s universal – or it’s just politics masquerading as principle.