NZ Politics
Polls Excite the Left Wing Media
Anyone who takes the two polls released this week seriously needs to have a rethink. To have a poll on a new PM when all he has done of note is to gaze over a drenched Auckland from a chopper is patently ridiculous. In terms of sorting out the mess
Polls say the PM is a Gamechanger
Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. Monday night’s opinion polls answered the big question of whether a switch of prime minister would really be a gamechanger for election year. The
Labour’s Talent Pool Rather Shallow
Chris Hipkins has announced his cabinet reshuffle. Non-performing ministers have been axed, but the real take away from the re-shuffle is that Labour’s talent pool has proven to be rather shallow. Senior MP Andrew Little has been demoted and lost his health portfolio while Chris Hipkins has
BFD February 2023 Political Poll
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Face of the Day
Michael “River of filth” Wood has gone up the rankings from sixteen to seven and has been given a brand new made-up position by PM Chris Hipkins who has anointed him the Minister for Auckland. Read more here. Discuss it on The BFD. If you would like to access
Chris Hipkins Fails First Test
David Seymour ACT Party Leader Former Education Minister and now Prime Minister Chris Hipkins must front up and explain the poorly communicated overkill decision to close every Auckland school. Mayor Wayne Brown has been smashed for late decision making and poor communication during the Auckland floods. The Prime Minister is
The Covid Narrative Is Unravelling at Speed
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
Kindness and Empathy Don’t Win Elections
Saturday morning is one of routine for me. Having completed the ablutions and taken the vast array of medications needed to enable me to continue to write for the BFD I venture out to purchase the Weekend Herald. This paper is the closest the publishers get all week to what
Anonymous Threats
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Last Tuesday week a non-descript politics lecturer Chris Wilson joined in the nonsense being written about the pressure on Jacinda through social media abuse and death threats. Specifically, he claimed in the Herald it was massively higher than other prominent political figures copped. That’
A Coup by Stealth
Were you worried about 3 Waters? Were you worried about a separate Maori health authority? Were you worried about The Canterbury Regional Council (Ngai Tahu Representation) Bill? Were you deeply worried about Co-Governance? I have good news for you! The good news is there is no need to worry
Civil Defence Too Little Too Late
Bryce Edwards democracyproject.nz Dr Bryce Edwards is Political Analyst in Residence at Victoria University of Wellington. He is the director of the Democracy Project. How much confidence should the public have in authorities managing natural disasters? Not much, judging by the farcical way in which the civil defence emergence
Polls: A Dead Cat Bounce?
Both 1News/Kantar and Newshub/Reid Research have released polls yesterday. Predictably they show a small rise in Labour’s fortunes, just a week after Chris Hipkins took over. But will these polls just be a dead cat bounce? He’s been prime minister less than a week, and so
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How Close to a Totalitarian West?
Joakim Book brownstone.org Joakim Book is a writer and researcher with a deep interest in money and financial history. He holds an MSc from the University of Oxford. The West can never again go totalitarian. We saw it happen generations ago. We fought two of humanity’s most destructive