Pixy has very kindly created a template for all you aspiring Photoshoppers to use for this competition. Above is the template and below it is a photoshop that Pixy prepared earlier to show you what fun can be had playing with the Labour Party’s new election 2020 slogan.
Chris Penk The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. Kind of ridiculous Is there anything more absurd than an instruction to “be kind”? For one thing, it’s illogical. The essence of kindness is that a person acts
There are (or should I say should be) three realistic options among the political parties in New Zealand for the conservative voter. Obviously, the main one should be the National Party, if only it would get back to its conservative principles and stand for something instead of the wishy washy,
When I was first alerted to the fact that Muller and Kaye had lunched with Simon Wilson my immediate reaction was what the …. you choose the word. I thought why waste time with an ideologically driven chauvinist of the left? There is little point talking economics with the left as
With the ‘resignation’ of David Clark, the truly hopeless former health minister, Jacinda has appointed Chris Hipkins, Education and State Services Minister, into the role. While assuring everyone that this is an interim measure, with Hipkins holding the position only until the election, it speaks volumes about the lack of
According to gossip, Jacinda Ardern is pushing for an invitation to the private funeral at Eden Park for Matthew Hunt. His family don’t want her there because she made no attempt to contact them after he was killed. Now that it’s turning into a big event she is
Marta Rychert Massey University Chris Wilkins Massey University In less than three months, New Zealanders will vote in the world’s first national referendum on a comprehensive proposal to legalise the recreational use of cannabis. Unlike cannabis ballots in several US states in which the public only voted on the
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I’m not a native Aucklander, but for the past 20-plus years I’ve tolerated the place and during that time I’ve lived no more than a few hefty stone throws away from Dominion Road. I traverse it and use it often: my kids went to a school
So we’ve done it. We have got COVID under control. We have no community transmission and only 18 active cases, all in quarantine, caught at the border. We have done what very few other countries have managed to do. We can truly describe New Zealand as COVID free. This
The Labour Party has sacked a candidate for this election for showing wrong-think, seven years ago. The Labour Party has sacked one of its list candidates after revelations he publicly praised an anti-Islam column in 2013. Kurt Taogaga, ranked 68th on the list, said he wasn’t sure
The Labour Party purges have begun and they have opened the gates so wide that there is now the potential to shame them into purging every single candidate on their list. They, not The BFD, set the rules, and the rules are very simple. Any social media comment, no matter
It takes a fair bit to get the wood on Winston Peters. In Thursday’s Question Time there was a spat between Winston Peters and Gerry Brownlee. To his credit Speaker Trevor Mallard did pull up Winston’s sledge. But Gerry Brownlee had the last laugh. At least Winston admitted
