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 ACT Party: https://www.facebook.com/actparty/videos/261670675008255/ Please
Press Release: ACT Party “The Government can encourage respect for the law and confidence in Police by releasing the Crown Law advice on the legality of the lockdown”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “Today at the Epidemic Response Committee, the new Police Commissioner continued to stonewall on the issue of
Don Brash lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com First published in elocal Perhaps it is dangerous to write about such a fast-moving situation as the COVID-19 pandemic when what I write may not be published for 10 days or more, but at time of writing my strong impression is that the
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com In his recent article The Coming Economic Crisis and its Political Consequences, Sir Bob Jones predicts New Zealand will have a change in government: “Have an election today and the government would bolt in, primarily because of Jacinda’s star power induced by the media’
Anthony Blair acolyte and former Labour cabinet minister David Blunkett has written in The Telegraph recently that “to incarcerate people solely on age grounds is an outrage”. This, from a man who once described civil libertarianism as “airy fairy”, was given in response to suggestions that UK lockdown restrictions might
Many commenters have expressed dismay at the rapid expansion of the socialist state in New Zealand, and the government not wasting a crisis to drive through ideological changes to our economy. Matthew Hooton writes at the NZ Herald: There are early signs of megalomania in the Government’s economic response
Something didn’t seem quite right about the government’s address to the nation on Wednesday. Here we had deputy prime minister, Winston Peters, telling us how the Ministry of Health had asked the government to shut the borders to everyone, including Kiwis. I was surprised to hear him say
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The proposition to sell New Zealand passports for $50million is unbelievably naïve. Why? Because there are heaps of countries that will sell citizenship for a fraction of that. To that proponents may argue the advantages of a New Zealand passport such as automatic entry to
Along with other BFD writers, I have for the past week raised the question of whether New Zealand’s draconian lockdowns had actually achieved anything significant. The conclusion even then was: no. Jacinda Ardern has trashed and burned New Zealand’s economy for nothing. As more and more data becomes
David Theobald I am over the lockdown. As I have said before, on a selfish, personal basis it doesn’t affect me that much; I can put up with it. I am retired, live in the country, can weather the (hopefully) temporary hit any investments have taken and can still
At the end of each month, The BFD puts up a new poll with the same question so that we can track changes in voters’ preferences in the lead up to the election on September 19th. Each month we will analyse the previous month’s results so that we can
Questions to Ministers Hon SIMON BRIDGES to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by all her Government’s statements and actions? KIRITAPU ALLAN to the Minister of Education: What steps is the Government taking to bring forward education infrastructure projects to help stimulate regional economies? Hon PAUL GOLDSMITH to the
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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
