Simon Bridges appears intent on emulating the political death of David Cunliffe as he lurches towards an ignominious end. Newshub delivered him a solid kick to the nuts last night, again: National MPs have told Newshub the numbers are being done to roll Simon Bridges, with one of them – David
BFD Political corner: Election 2020 is a series that features political speeches, political ads and political campaigns on Social media from a range of different political parties in the lead up to the New Zealand election. Today we have the Labour Party: Jacinda Ardern’s 2020 Budget Speech Mr Speaker,
Ryan Bridge on the AM show asked the prime minister several questions she was uncomfortable answering. When Ardern is under pressure she lapses into poor diction, which she did, and she adopts a facial expression indicating she smells a dead rat in the room. After discussing the Chinese virus, where
Live meetings of the Epidemic Response Committee of the New Zealand Parliament. The Epidemic Response Committee was established on 25 March 2020 to consider and report to the House on matters relating to the Government’s management of the COVID-19 epidemic. Learn more about this committee and browse committee
A little over two months ago, in early March, 50 infectious disease experts signed off an editorial published in the New Zealand Medical Journal calling on politicians to “avoid scaremongering” over the impending COVID invasion of this country. Some of their colleagues had been beavering away for the best part
The duplicity of this government is shocking and it shows no sign of mending its ways. The BFD has exposed a number of its lies already. 1. The claim that they went hard and early 2. The claim that the lockdown was legal and there were no gaps in the
How will history judge the events of the last couple of months? Will it be judged by going hard and fast as our voluble Prime Minister and her mostly inept bunch of ministers would have us believe and therefore supposedly knocking the COVID-19 bastard off? Or will it be
Someone needs to tell Simon Bridges that he’s dreamin’. Hopefully, it will be his caucus, but he appears to be heading down the same self-destructive path of David Cunliffe. Simon Bridges is still confident he will lead National into the September election despite dropping below 5 percent as
The latest Newshub/Reid Research poll is out and it runs red, blood red. The headline numbers are: Labour: 56.5% – 72 seats National: 30.6% down 12.7% – 39 seats (down 16 seats) NZ First: 2.7% Greens: 5.5% Act: 1.8% Preferred PM Ardern: 59.5% Bridges:
Newshub have released their latest poll. The headline numbers are: Labour: 56.5% – 72 seats National: 30.6% down 12.7% – 39 seats (down 16 seats) NZ First: 2.7% Greens: 5.5% Act: 1.8% Preferred PM Ardern: 59.5% Bridges: 4.5% down 6.1% In depth analysis
Last week as the government took its foot off our throats and allowed us the partial freedom to move around and socialise again, the move to Level 2 came with the usual admonishments about what would happen if we took too many liberties with this new found freedom. Most of
