At the end of each month, The BFD will put 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
A leader needs to be able to handle an interview and to speak off the cuff. Simon Bridges comes across as very rehearsed in the lines that he uses and gets in trouble when he gets asked a question that he doesn’t have a rehearsed answer for. Politicians need
Wendy It’s unscientific, but the AM Show poll puts Bridges ahead of Ardern for the next PM. It seems that people are finally getting it. Policy is just as important as personality. Phew! Wednesday’s poll may be a snapshot in time and it’s early days but there
So Grant Robertson has announced a massive spend up on roads, especially in the north. On top of that, he’s given a sop to the Greens giving them $200m for decarbonisation but $690m for 22km of road to NZ First. Which one matters most? Clearly there is a disconnect
You have only got until 5 pm this Friday to make a submission against a race-based, public service. It will be your last chance to air your views on the Public Service Bill which hopes to “modernize” the New Zealand public service partly by adding a Treaty of Waitangi
Source: brokenpromises.co.nz Promise: One Billion Trees “This government is committed to a new planting programme, planting 100 million trees a year to reach a billion more trees in ten years.” Speech from the Throne Broken Promise: No matter how you cut it the billion trees over 10 years
When NZ First’s Shane Jones called Ihumatao protest leader Pania Newton a “young Putiputi” (a young flower) it was only to be expected that the legacy media would twist and turn like a really twisty turny thing to try to turn a very innocuous comment into “sexism”, “misogyny” and
Source: brokenpromises.co.nz Promise: Electric Vehicles “This ambitious plan to take real action on climate change will involve all New Zealanders. This government will act as a role model, showing leadership by requiring State-owned enterprises and other government organisations to pursue low-carbon options and technologies, including electric
Press Release: National Party Heartbreaking tales of kids as young as five wearing gang patches shows the Government’s approach to gangs isn’t working, National’s Justice spokesperson Mark Mitchell says. “The previous National Government focused on stopping children from joining gangs in the first place by investing in
ACT Party Superficial Times Media took the bait hook, line and sinker, going nuts at the title of our Waitangi Day State of the Nation Address (Make Aotearoa Great Again). As the week went on, smart commentators pointed out their good-people-and-bad-people, with-us-or-against-us
Nicole McKee Spokesperson Fair and Reasonable Campaign Jacinda Ardern has just announced the election date: 19 September We have 235 days to convince New Zealanders to support parties and policies which protect our firearms sports and rural way of life – in particular, we need to fight for a Government that
This month Education Minister Chris Hipkins changed the school system to discourage religious teaching in State schools. Previously it was an opt-out system but he has changed it to an opt in system. The opt-out system requires effort only from those opposed to religious instruction for their children
I know that some children suffer because they have deadbeat parents. I know some kids are just plain neglected or abused, or worse. But the problem that so many families have these days is paying the rent. And it isn’t going to get better any time soon. This year
Trevor Mallard shouldn’t be surprised to once again find himself in court facing a defamation action. He gobbed off thinking he was immune from smearing an employee in parliament. What’s worse is that he’s done it without a shred of evidence. Now it’s landed him in
