A BFD reader wrote to their local MP to tell them that National had lost their party vote in 2020 due to their support of the Zero Carbon Bill. To his credit, the MP sent a personal reply. Thanks for your email correspondence regarding the Zero Carbon Bill. I do
I have consistently refused to get involved in the criticism of Simon Bridges, mainly because a lot of it was just nasty and spiteful. Mocking someone for nothing more than his accent is childish and unnecessary, and I refuse to go there. Simon Bridges should be a role model for
In a detailed and fully-referenced paper, Wellington researcher/analyst Barbara McKenzie has published a withering rebuttal of PM Jacinda Ardern’s comments in a speech lauding the passage in the NZ Parliament of the Zero Carbon Bill. […]The Zero Carbon Bill has just passed its third reading in parliament,
Dr Megan Woods (Minister of House Building and Windfarms) recently announced the results of the latest handouts to boffins from the Marsden Fund. “Climate change is long-term challenge that requires out-of-the-box thinking and that’s why the Government has made more progress in two years than
Press Release: NZ Government Hon Stuart Nash Minister of Police Controls on assault rifles and semi-automatic firearms are to be broadened to include some types of pistols, under changes to a bill currently making its way through Parliament. Police Minister Stuart Nash has tabled a Supplementary Order Paper to
Questions to Ministers Hon PAULA BENNETT to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by all her Government’s policies and statements? MARJA LUBECK to the Minister of Education: What legislative change will be undertaken as part of the reform of the Tomorrow’s Schools system? Hon PAUL GOLDSMITH to the
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Oh dear. Government employees in New Zealand have been caught trying to visit naughty websites and no I am not talking about Porn sites although they have been caught trying to do that too. Apparently what they have been doing is so much worse than porn. They have been trying
The poll results below are from a live poll so the results that I have commented on in this post may have changed slightly by the time that this post publishes. At the time of writing 612 people out of the 786 people who had participated in the poll said
Here we go again, BFD readers: another instalment in “The Guardian: I read it so you don’t have to”, an intermittent series by your long-suffering correspondent. In this episode, I suffer through two Guardianista opinion pieces on New Zealand politics: one a stew of utter bollocks from a
Paul Hunt, Simon Bridges’ Correspondence and Research Assistant has responded to an email from a reader about National voting for the Zero Carbon Bill as follows: On behalf of Hon Simon Bridges, Leader of the Opposition, thank you for your email regarding the Zero Carbon Act. National supported the Zero
An article on Politik on Monday under the heading “Bridges uses the Zero Carbon Bill to redefine National” made for very interesting reading. Perusing the information in the article was like putting the pieces of a jigsaw together. According to Richard Harman, the decision by National to support the Bill,
