Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com New Year seems to be a time when predictions are checked. In September 2017 I predicted Jacinda Ardern would increase child poverty if she became Prime Minister. On 7 of 9 measures introduced under the Child Poverty Reduction Act, to June 2018 poverty had increased.
Over on the website Politikiwi they are tracking the government’s election promises. The website was launched eight months ago and its existence was announced on Reddit. It began as a personal project for 19-year-old software engineer Robert Calvert’s portfolio. Introducing Politikiwi – A polling aggregation and politician
The biggest problem with NZ First having scuppered Jacinda’s proposed Capital Gains Tax (CGT) is that the subject will never go away. Even if Jacinda adheres to her promise to never introduce it, the next Labour leader will bring the subject up again. It doesn’t matter what the
Ben Waimata In the mid to late 1980s, there were over 60,000 SKS and SKK rifles imported to New Zealand from China. I had one of these rifles, they were cheap and effective, and most of them will be still serviceable. This one half-decade of imported rifles 30
Peter Mandelson, one of the architects behind UK Labour’s landslide victory in 1997, echoes what I recently said and many other pundits have said about the UK Election. That you can’t win with a shit-house leader. [40s] He said “…I don’t think the result was entirely
Political photoshops and memes are powerful influencers, just ask Boris Johnson who benefited from the ‘dark arts’ of Kiwi “meme machines” Sean Topham and Ben Guerin. Today’s political photoshop was created by Luke. All we want for this New Year dear readers is to share our content with more
Over on the website Politikiwi they are tracking the government’s election promises. The website was launched eight months ago and its existence was announced on Reddit. It began as a personal project for 19-year-old software engineer Robert Calvert’s portfolio. Introducing Politikiwi – A polling aggregation and politician
A political cartoon packs an awful lot into a single image. I hope you enjoy this roundup of some of our best cartoons from 2019. All we want for this New Year dear readers is to share our content with more and more readers. Already The BFD has 645 followers
Recently when reading a newspaper I came across an article headlined – Why Socialism became a dirty word in 2019. The newspaper declined to give the author of the article so maybe it was from a right-wing source. The paper seems only too happy to publicise its friendly left-wing
Political photoshops and memes are powerful influencers, just ask Boris Johnson who benefited from the ‘dark arts’ of Kiwi “meme machines” Sean Topham and Ben Guerin. Today’s political photoshop was created by Rick H. All we want for this New Year dear readers is to share our content with
A political cartoon packs an awful lot into a single image. I hope you enjoy this roundup of some of our best cartoons from 2019. All we want for this New Year dear readers is to share our content with more and more readers. Already The BFD has 645 followers
Before Stu Nash became a minister he consulted widely on matters. He gave the impression that he cared to listen, and that he cared about what voters thought. He often went out of his way to show that by posting promotional videos showing him being down with the voters. Since
Something is seriously wrong with our justice system when a brutal child rapist is released into the community after serving just seven years of his light ten year sentence despite an assessment of his likelihood of re-offending being described as “a high risk of violent offending and a moderate
There is an interesting phenomenon on websites whenever someone says they won’t be voting National for whatever reason. You see commenters use lines like “they aren’t as bad as the other lot, so you should vote for them”. A classic example is this one from Rockape: So your
Political photoshops and memes are powerful influencers, just ask Boris Johnson who benefited from the ‘dark arts’ of Kiwi “meme machines” Sean Topham and Ben Guerin. Today’s political photoshop “Poor Cindy” was created by Rick H. All we want for Christmas dear readers is to share our content with
