‘Inappropriately armed’: NZ First calls for review of police firearms New Zealand First is calling for an independent review into the arming of frontline police officers with military-grade assault rifles. Semi-automatics are routinely stored in a lock box in patrol cars. The party says scrapping the Police Armed
The prime minister has expressed her anger at the fact that The Warehouse Group is about to lay off 1,080 workers. She is particularly angry because the company accepted the government wage subsidy in March, taking $68 million in government subsidies at that time. This week alone, we have
The take-over is a fait accompli. The civil service walks in a left-wing goose-step. Our universities are left-wing. Our teachers are too, as is our education system. Our corporates toe the line. Our parliamentarians, generally speaking, are, and our legal system sways to the left in
The National Party seems intent on ceding as much ground to their opponents as possible. They are marching back from their previous positions faster than a French Army. The latest retreat is abandoning National’s credentials on crime: National is distancing itself from its controversial Strike Force Raptor proposal, saying
Maori Party co-Leader Debbie Ngarewa-Packer has called new National leader Todd Muller a racist. “Muller is showing himself as a racist who has no respect for tangata whenua needs,” Seriously? How many hats is Muller going to have to put in a box at the back of the
Prime Minister says if each of us spend $100 a day in our local economy things should come right. She is living in a different reality from the citizens of New Zealand, we don't have access to this much money in a week. — Pamela Taylor (@PamelaT34912263) June 10,
When Goldsmith suggested that the PM, a woman, should “Stick to her knitting” there was predictable lefty outrage about sexism. Any person with an IQ greater than that of a carrot knows that the expression means ‘concentrate on a familiar area of activity rather than diversify‘, but hey, outrage is
Kaikoura Whale Watch to return buoyed by $1.5 million government boost Whale Watch Kaikoura will be back on the water next month, buoyed by a $1.5 million Government tourism rescue grant to help it navigate the domestic market. Tourism Minister Kelvin Davis, accompanied by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern,
Show business is the only thing Jacinda seems good at. She parades around in various global type garments best suited to the country she is feeling sorry for at the time in order to get the ensuing global adulation. Jacinda has turned this ingratiating irritating behaviour into an art form
I read Cameron Slater’s excellent article about the possibility of a National-Green coalition after the election with considerable interest. His angle on the matter was that National voters, upset at the prospect of a post-election deal between National and NZ First should think again, as an even
Today’s face of the day Act leader David Seymour stood up for National MP Paul Goldsmith whose own leader allegedly “had words” with him for the crime of telling Ardern to “stick to her knitting.” What’s next? Will Todd Muller apologise for being a man? At least David
Unfortunately, no point the PM being angry. It’s a natural consequence of shutting down an economy. https://t.co/b6SwJGXwfN — Judith Collins (@JudithCollinsMP) June 9, 2020
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Information Satire Parliament is in Recess, there is a God after all. But what shows up during recess? That dreadful woman Tova O’Brien. She was stalking the canyons of power asking questions about Goldsmith’s Maoriness. Then my deputy came face to face with her on the Nation, at
Peter Jackson Editor Northland Age A correspondent to the ‘Northern Advocate’ claimed last week that the enduring legacy of COVID-19 in New Zealand will be “the period of gratuitous authoritarianism it brought from the political left.” And he might well be right. This newspaper has no great criticism to
