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Toxic Michelle Boag RESIGNS from National

Toxic Michelle Boag RESIGNS from National

The cancer on the National Party, Michelle Boag is gone, excised, cut out, cauterised…dead. She has resigned her membership, presumably before being cancelled by the board. As is usual with her the resignation is utterly self-serving. She needs investigating. How often has she used her position on Boards

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Jacinda Issued Warning

Jacinda Issued Warning

Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The Race Relations Commissioner Meng Foon has written to our political parties urging them to lay off racism in the coming election campaign. His letter has been joyfully spread by its recipients around the capital and for all I know, elsewhere. Inexplicably half of it

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Zip It Sweetie!

Zip It Sweetie!

You’d think Paula Bennett would be self-aware enough to know when it’s best to shut her prodigious gob. Turns out, no. National MP Paula Bennett has called the actions of her colleague Hamish Walker “deplorable” after he confessed on Tuesday that it was him who leaked Covid-

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Taxpayers’ Union ‘Aroha’ Posters Deemed To Be Labour Party Ads The Electoral Commission has confirmed that the ‘Aroha’ posters of Jacinda Ardern, promoted by artists Weston Frizzell and advertiser Phantom Billstickers, does indeed constitute a party advertisement for the Labour Party. This judgment comes after the New Zealand Taxpayers’ Union

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Govt Attacking “Traditional Masculinity”

Govt Attacking “Traditional Masculinity”

Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Extension of the government’s “It’s Not OK” anti-violence strategy was released yesterday. The campaign has run since 2007 but it is now turning it focus wholly on “gendered intimate partner violence.” Men as perpetrators. Some extracts: The campaign has re-set its

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The Abysmal State of New Zealand Politics

The Abysmal State of New Zealand Politics

The fiasco involving Hamish Walker and Michelle Boag is just the latest in a series of unedified incidents that have either happened or are being investigated involving our politicians or political parties. All of the circumstances were brought about by people who should know better. They have brought their parties

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A Green Path to the Fringe

A Green Path to the Fringe

Dr Oliver Hartwich nzinitiative.org.nz The Green Party has declared its wealth tax will be a red line in any coalition negotiations. And because Labour knows this, the larger party left the door wide open. Rather than ruling out the Greens’ plans, both the Prime Minister and the Minister

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A Free Taste of an Insight Politics Podcast Transcript

A Free Taste of an Insight Politics Podcast Transcript

Today Non- Subscribers get a FREE taste of what they are missing out on. Have a read of this Insight Politics podcast transcript then decide whether or not you would like to subscribe to a Silver subscription or upgrade your existing Basic or Bronze level Subscription to Silver. NOTE: The

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NZ Govt Confirms It Won’t Test for Virus Prevalence

NZ Govt Confirms It Won’t Test for Virus Prevalence

Press Release covidplanb.co.nz The Government has formally confirmed that it will not use any of the current or future serology tests to assess how widespread the Covid19 disease has been in New Zealand. In answer to an Official Information Request by the Covid Plan B group, the Director

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The Sordid and Unedifying Past of Michelle Boag

The Sordid and Unedifying Past of Michelle Boag

Now that Michelle Boag has seriously compromised National’s prospects at the election, it is perhaps time to reflect on her ignominious past. National Party hack Boag’s history goes back a long way. She was in the Prime Minister’s press office in 1976 under Robert Muldoon, joined the

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Face of the Day
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Face of the Day

National MP Hamish Walker has announced that he will not be standing for re-election for the Southland electorate at the upcoming 2020 election. The backbencher MP had been behind the leak of Covid-19 patient details to media. “I wish to thank the people of Clutha-Southland who I

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