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Racing Each Other to the Bottom

Racing Each Other to the Bottom

Turns out I’m not the only journalist to notice the worrying similarities between Daniel Andrews and Jacinda Ardern. Both are socialists who are slavishly devoted to every fashionable leftist cause. Their inane commieraderie is evident from their giggling, fangirl photo-op during Ardern’s visit last year. And, as

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Be Very Worried, New Zealand

Be Very Worried, New Zealand

Hypocrisy, incompetence and blame-shifting, while Wuhan virus infections just keep climbing – I’m talking, of course, about the Australian state of Victoria, aka “Dandrewstan”. But the deadly lessons of Victoria ought to send a shiver down the spines of New Zealanders – because the Ardern government seems to be following

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This Is Not a Fair Election

This Is Not a Fair Election

Some time ago Donald Trump mistook Jacinda Ardern for the wife of the Canadian Prime Minister. The way she’s now using COVID to orchestrate the election campaign to her advantage he could just as easily mistake her for the wife of Putin. She is blatantly attempting to steal an

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Taxation – “Legalized Theft”

A standing ovation for National for proposing the concept that we should keep more of our hard-earned cash. While National’s tax policy stands alone for being sensible compared with others (with the exception of ACT), we are nailed every time and the average citizen is crucified by taxation

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National Will Nurture New Zealand’s Technology Talent

National Will Nurture New Zealand’s Technology Talent

Press Release: National Party National will double the size of New Zealand’s technology sector by 2030 with a $1.29 billion plan that will aim to create at least 100,000 new high-paying, future-proofed tech jobs. “Doubling the size of the technology sector by 2030 is an

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Scott Morrison Thinks an NZ Travel Bubble Could Help

Scott Morrison Thinks an NZ Travel Bubble Could Help

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison seems to be talking the right talk when it comes to potentially opening up some areas of New Zealand with some Australian regions. Morrison made the announcement following a series of meetings on Thursday and Friday last week. “ScoMo” said the issue came up on

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The Barbecue Test

Resource consent hearings are serious legal processes. They are run by councils and were originally supposed to involve elected councillors to represent the people. Unsurprisingly, there were so many bad decisions that councillors have now been replaced by experienced commissioners who actually have to pass an exam in order to

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Speech: Judith Collins 2020 Campaign Launch

Speech: Judith Collins 2020 Campaign Launch

Thank you for your kind welcome. It’s great to join you all today for National’s first-ever virtual election campaign launch. But it’s a bittersweet day. We should all be here together. However, because the rhetoric never matches reality with this Government, New Zealanders have again had

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Time for a Reality Check

Time for a Reality Check

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A week back a Victorian Treasury economist, Sanjeev Sabhlok, resigned in protest at the absurdly dictatorial situation imposed by the now widely loathed State Premier to combat the coronavirus. He made some interesting observations in an Australian Financial Review explanatory article. Largely his criticism was

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The PM Is Already at Level 1 – Why Not the Rest of Us?

The PM Is Already at Level 1 – Why Not the Rest of Us?

Press Release: ACT Party “Jacinda Ardern is already at Level 1 and today she must allow the rest of the country to join her there,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Ardern was photographed on Thursday taking a selfie with at least a dozen people in close proximity to her. She

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Labour’s List of Failure

Labour’s List of Failure

David Farrar has provided a handy list of Labour’s massive policy and delivery failures from the past three years. The promiseThe deliveryBuild 100,000 affordable homes over 10 years548 built (0.5%)Fund the planting of one billion trees over 10 years36.8 million trees funded (3.7%)Govt

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Today’s face of the day Jacinda Ardern, “acknowledged” “making a mistake” but she did NOT apologise as fake news Newshub has claimed both in their headline and in the body of the article. Their own direct quote from what Ardern said makes a lie of their claim. The BFD.

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BFD Political Corner: Election 2020 National Party

BFD Political Corner: Election 2020 National Party

BFD Political corner: Election 2020 is a series that features political speeches, political ads and political campaigns on Social media from a range of different political parties in the lead up to the New Zealand election. Today we have the National Party’s Campaign Launch from yesterday. National Party 2020

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