Labour and the Greens, in fact, the political left globally, are addicted to two things: tax and spend. The more they tax, the more they spend. So we end up as a country like a dog chasing its tail because the tax take, no matter how much, is never enough
David Seymour ACT Party Leader The Chrises squabbled about who gets how much of the pie, without articulating a vision for growing it. The Chrises went back and forth over issues which are very real to hardworking New Zealanders, without spelling out what real change would look like. That is
Dr. Guy David Hatchard hatchardreport.com Guy is an international advocate of food safety and natural medicine. He received his undergraduate degree in Logic and Theoretical Physics from the University of Sussex and his Ph.D. in Psychology from Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield Iowa. He was formerly a senior
Istvan The “wasted vote” is a concept that keeps popping up as we approach election day. I have had my own struggles with it and have come up with three conclusive thoughts: One. In my mind – even if I bring it down to the purely strategic (tactical?) level – it presents
The Prime Minister’s admission yesterday that Labour will finally ditch its disastrous target to reduce the prison population by 30 per cent is too late for Kiwis who feel unsafe in their homes, businesses and communities, National Corrections spokesperson Mark Mitchell says. “For the last six years, Labour have
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com Back in 2017, when New Zealand’s economy was being described as a “rock star”, the opposition Labour Party railed against the role being played by immigration. Figures at the time showed that under National, annual net migration had grown from just 5,000 in
Desperation is a stinky cologne, but now it’s all that Labour has got. They certainly can’t stand on their record, as they’ve achieved precious little other than a sea of red ink on the country’s balance sheet. All they’ve got is relentless negativity; the Nasty
One of the reasonings behind MMP was the widening of democracy; it went something like ‘a new party or parties will emerge because so many people are sick of the Tweedledum and Tweedledee status quo, they will take hold, and a new political era will dawn’. It was all going
Geoffrey Miller Victoria University of Wellington democracyproject.nz Geoffrey Miller is the Democracy Project’s geopolitical analyst and writes on current New Zealand foreign policy and related geopolitical issues. He has lived in Germany and the Middle East and is a learner of Arabic and Russian. He is currently working
Bob McCoskrie bobmccoskrie.com It’s General Election time – and because we operate under an MMP mixed-member proportional voting system, the concept of the “wasted vote” always comes up in discussion. Generally, the statement is thrown around, something along the lines of, “If your vote is wasted, it goes
Labour’s campaign chairperson, Megan Woods, says they can turn the polls around in time for the election. Apparently she is satisfied with how they are going, despite seven polls in ten days telling these dolts that the game is up. Labour’s campaign chairperson said the party can turn
The good(?) ship Labour is heading for the rocks. There’s a tidal wave approaching and it is expected to hit on October 14. This is currently the big story for journalists and they are painfully aware of it. No matter how much bias they cook up, no matter how
David Seymour ACT Party Leader New Zealand is at a constitutional crossroad. In one direction is liberal democracy. In the other is co-government; power-sharing between one ethnic group and all others. ACT will end co-government and restore universal human rights in New Zealand. The current government is
Freedoms NZ Team The ACT Party’s launch was shaping up to be rather uneventful, but it took an exciting turn when Freedoms NZ joined the party! Over the past week, the ACT team had been brimming with confidence, expecting their latest event to be their most significant to date.
