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We’re All Communists Now

We’re All Communists Now

Sweden isn’t a country high on my list of places to visit. I went to Norway once and that was bad enough. Sweden is a country run by a commissariat of trades unionists, radical feminists and individuals who, by their own admission, are no friends of Israel. Every Swede,

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BFD Political Corner: Election 2020 Green Party
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BFD Political Corner: Election 2020 Green Party

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 Green Party: Please send us links to any speeches, social

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Government Should Come Clean on PPE

Government Should Come Clean on PPE

Press Release: ACT Party “The Government needs to come clean on the reason why many frontline health workers can’t get PPE”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “I am hearing many stories from health workers about a lack of PPE on the frontline. “That clearly signals there’s an issue

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Epidemic Response Committee Forces Clark’s Hand

Epidemic Response Committee Forces Clark’s Hand

“Oops I did it again”, reads David Farrar’s headline on his Kiwiblog, referring to our naughty Health Minister David Clark’s other (concealed) breaches of the isolation rules, as daily laid down by his PM. I laughed out loud at the accuracy of Farrar’s reference. Lucky Clark has

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Reusable Supermarket Bags Go the Way of Plastic Ones

Reusable Supermarket Bags Go the Way of Plastic Ones

We live in strange times. Not too long ago, the implementation of the reuseable shopping receptacle was seen as the solution to the apparent scourge of the single-use plastic supermarket bag. It was the fix all, the amazing corrective remedy to help what was seen by some as the

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Epidemic Response Committee | NZ Parliament – 8 April 2020

Epidemic Response Committee | NZ Parliament – 8 April 2020

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

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Better the Idiot you Know than the Idiot You Don’t

Better the Idiot you Know than the Idiot You Don’t

The PM refused to sack her Minister of Health because to do that would be an admission that David Clark was not performing his job to a level of competency expected for a Minister of the Crown. In the same conversation where Jacinda Ardern called people who disregard COVID-19

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David Clark – From Tool of the Week to Tool of the Year

David Clark – From Tool of the Week to Tool of the Year

Gee, I’d just had a chat with myself after writing my last post criticising the competence of this government’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis. “Danny,” I said to myself “perhaps it’s time to back off a little and stop sniping at them. Try to look for

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Govt Must Cease Non-Essential Legislation Immediately

Govt Must Cease Non-Essential Legislation Immediately

Press Release: ACT Party “While New Zealanders are distracted by the greatest public health emergency of our lives, the Government is sneaking its political agenda through Parliament”, says ACT Leader David Seymour. “The Government has given the Justice Committee just two months to consider the Electoral (Registration of Sentenced Prisoners)

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Extending the Snitch Culture to Business

Extending the Snitch Culture to Business

The Government has been very quick to adopt a snitch culture in the past few weeks. They have a snitch line to Police to dob in lockdown breachers and another for people to snitch on price gougers. Then yesterday, they released the details of every company that has taken the

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Victims of Their Own Making

Victims of Their Own Making

It’s a common story right now: ‘stranded overseas travellers’ begging the Australian and New Zealand governments to ‘rescue’ them from their plight. We might be inclined to take them more seriously if it weren’t that so many of them appear to be victims of nothing more than their

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Covid-19: Time for an Exit Strategy

Covid-19: Time for an Exit Strategy

Australia and New Zealand, along with much of the Western world, have been plunged almost overnight into a state of seemingly endless lockdown. In scenes not witnessed even in the depths of wartime, Aussies and Kiwis are practically confined to their homes – with police and even the army patrolling the

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Dear Jacinda

Dear Jacinda

Dear Jacinda, You seem to operate under the old adage that if you tell someone something often enough they will believe it. May I politely ask, was this part of your communications degree? Again at your Sunday press conference, you stated that observing the trajectories overseas had helped the Government

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BFD Political Corner: Election 2020 Labour Party
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BFD Political Corner: Election 2020 Labour Party

BFD Political corner: Election 2020 is a series that will feature 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: Please send us links to any speeches,

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