The PM rolls out this statement frequently during debate so here’s a selection of Ardern statements made during the COVID-19 lockdown that we can totally reject. Weeks in lock down prevented waves of devastation. “’We have stopped a wave of devastation‘, the prime minister said on Monday as
Immediately after we published our story about the leaked Police emails, which revealed that the initial two weeks of the lockdown were probably illegal, Jacinda Ardern appeared on Mike Hosking’s show to discuss this and other matters. Mike Hosking did not let her off the hook lightly: The government
We used to have a democracy, long ago, with institutions robust and whose advice, although not always reliable, was reasoned and open to scrutiny. We had excellent epidemiologists and infectious disease specialists carefully preparing reports displaying methods, workings and conclusions, citing references numerous. One such example was “Potential Health Impacts
With only 4 months to the election, it’s time to start collating the burning questions that our readers want New Zealand’s political parties to answer. At the last election, Hawkes Bay Today put readers’ selected questions to candidates at public meetings but some felt that a lot of
I hurt myself this morning, my own fault of course. Any of you people, much smarter than me, will have said ‘don’t do it.’ You may in hindsight stretch to an entirely unsympathetic ‘what did you expect?’, and you would be right, but I went ahead and did it
There have been a number of people in key leadership positions during the COVID-19 event who have come up well short of what we would expect in terms of job performance. Some of them have conned us, deliberately or otherwise, some have shown their true colours and some appear
In the Southern District Health Board area, which is basically most of the lower South Island below about Mt Cook, we have had two people die supposedly as a result of contracting this virus. Yes, both old and both with comorbidities. The last person to be confirmed with the disease
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com There’s a clamour from retailers for government (you and me) to subsidise their shop rentals. Justice Minister Andrew Little said, “We’ve heard the calls to subsidise rent or to freeze rents. However, both of these approaches would have meant commercial property owners would
Not satisfied with blindly and non-analytically peddling the government’s propaganda and presenting Jacinda Ardern as the saviour of the nation, covering her in yet more fairy dust and glitter, without questioning the veracity or accuracy of her utterances, the New Zealand Herald last week joined our schoolmarm, scolding
Press Release: New Conservatives In 2017, the coalition of Labour, NZF and the Greens took control of New Zealand thus becoming the start of a journey that originally claimed transparency, openness and kindness but has failed to deliver except in the area of removing freedoms and disempowered democracy. New Conservative
Damien Grant is a liquidator. He drives the ambulance to the bottom of the cliff. His latest piece is an interesting view on the economy from a liquidator’s perspective and his further comments provide food for thought for those who think that National is going down in a screaming
At the start of the Level 4 lockdown, unknown to the public, the Police were flying by the seat of their pants, receiving almost daily updates telling them how to deal with the lockdown. At the start of the lockdown on 25th March, the Medical Officer of Health (MedOH) notice
George What the hell is wrong with our country? It feels as if our backbone has been stripped from our spine. If the polls are anything to go by, this country is a dead man walking. We are currently governed by a group of student revolutionaries who are physically adults
George Ego, confidence, cockiness or whatever you call it, can be seen as an advantage by some and a hindrance by others. It is about money/mouth stuff. There is a tolerance if the money matches the mouth, but ridicule if the mouth is its master, or in the case
