Jacinda Ardern once said it was possible to never lie in politics, which are now quite possibly words she wished she had never uttered. This past week has seen a veritable potpourri of lies issue from her lying mouth. We were told that the military was being called in to
[…] He branded Minister of Health David Clark as Major Disaster and called the Director-General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfied as Brigadier Bloomfield and that he was “busy dry cleaning his uniform”. However, Seymour likened Ardern to the character Sergeant Schultz from the television series Hogan’s Heroes. Schultz, who
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com According to Agnes Loheni, National List MP, after another domestic murder of a female by a male: “If you are a man stand up for the mums, the wives, the daughters, the grand-daughters in your lives and demand accountability of yourselves,” she said. “I
Welcome to the Lynching of History, I hope you’re enjoying the spurious spectacle. In the current episode, we’ve seen the super-sanctimonious eye of contemporary woke-think focused on some of the peculiarities particular to several past-performers of assumed cultural iconology. True it is that some were
Chris Penk The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. What becomes of the “non-essential”? A government whose chief virtue is PR can normally be relied on to have “good optics”, as they say in spinning circles. The
Dieuwe De Boer rightminds.nz This is the speech I gave on Saturday 20th June at the New Conservative Conference 2020 in Auckland. I was asked to speak on a campaign message of “Doing What Works”. At the AGM I was also voted in as a board member. I hope
In an interview with Next magazine in June 2017, shortly after becoming Labour Deputy, Jacinda Ardern said she had no wish to be leader: “When you’re a bit of an anxious person, and you constantly worry about things, there comes a point where certain jobs are just really bad
Ananish Chaudhuri Simon Thornley Michael Jackson covidplanb.co.nz The recent fiasco that allowed people to leave quarantine without testing, risking the spread of COVID-19, highlights how nebulous the government’s claim of total elimination always was. The government, in projecting thousands of deaths that never eventuated, has continued
Here is the definition of the role of a Prime Minister. The Prime Minister determines the general direction of Government’s activities and ensures coordinated and purposeful work of the Cabinet of Ministers. The last half is worth repeating: ENSURES COORDINATED AND PURPOSEFUL WORK OF THE CABINET OF MINISTERS. If
We watched in disbelief as mobs looted and vandalised in America, attacking and beating people, wrecking their businesses and murdering those that tried to stop them. The catch cry is “Justice for George”, but the police officers who were involved in George Floyd’s murder have already been brought to
Chris Penk The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the country by publishing an extract every day. Disconcerting developments It is worth remembering throughout all of this that the unbelievably cavalier attitude of the government right up to (and including) mid-March had got our country
The pedestal was never high enough for you, was it? You swaggered on stage and addressed the nation every day for two months convincing many that under your watch, we would be protected from the unmitigated calamity of COVID-19. You claimed that without your immediate intervention up to eighty
