NZ Politics
Why We Can’t Keep Going Into Lockdown
This was going to be a boring little article about the government’s new rules about provisional tax penalties. I was going to recommend you read it after 11.00 tonight, particularly if you are having trouble sleeping. But I am going to have to leave that for another day
Prison Ship New Zealand: Return to Lockdown
It was said that the New Zealand public won’t accept another lockdown, and here we are with Auckland back in lockdown. As night follows day, other regions will revert to curfew too. Like a case of Stockholm Syndrome, where the abused bond with their abusers, we the people never
Hang on a Minute, Didn’t You Say This Was the COVID Election?
Jacinda Ardern used her second press conference yesterday to criticise the Opposition for daring to ask valid questions about her and her government’s decisions. We are currently in what is traditionally a period where governments must not make major decisions without consulting with Opposition parties. Locking down 30% of
Did She Let the Cat Out of the Bag?
At the beginning of the adjournment debate the Prime Minister made a mistake…or did she? She opened with: I move, That the House do now adjourn until 2 p.m. on Tuesday, 18 August 2020. That never made sense especially if you look at the proposed timetable for conducting
The Advantages of Beauty
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The Herald’s Ana Samways, always good for an amusing offbeat story, reports an Australian study shows physical attractiveness results in lighter court sentences. To that I say, quite bloody right. Ugly buggers should be locked up permanently, whether guilty or not. Good-looking people
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Govt Must Stop Trying to Use Old Soviet Model to Run Managed Isolation
Dr Eric Crampton nzinitiative.org.nz Presented as an engineering or operations management problem, it would seem almost impossible to solve. Thinking about it as that kind problem is now part of the problem at New Zealand’s border. In the decade before COVID-19, two to three million Kiwis
Jacinda Announces No-Policies Policy
Information Satire The Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern sat down with The Woke Examiner over high tea to have a conversation about her No-policies policy. From the outset, It was obvious to The Woke Examiner, Jacinda was still on a high after her triumphant conference last Saturday. “Everyone loves me,
Ardern Playing Us for Fools
It appears Ardern is nothing more than a puppeteer. As such she should probably be in the Guinness Book of Records for having the largest number of puppets on a string – five million of them. The team of five million is the slogan she likes to use. It’s beyond
Know Us By Our Deeds – Lying
The Prime Minister has famously declared that she never lies. That was a lie of course. Now it is campaign season she’s dropping whoppers like there is no tomorrow. Stuff reports: Asked about the National’s commitment to get tough on gangs, Ardern said the best way to deal