Chris Penk First published by The BFD 29th June 2020 The BFD is serialising National MP Chris Penk’s book Flattening the Country by publishing an extract every day. A lack of contact While the government was attempting to mask its issues providing PPE (yes, pun intended) it soon found
Phil Goff: Planned Lockdown Protests an Insult to People Making Sacrifices and Following the Rules Phil Goff says he hopes protests won’t involve confrontation and actions that make people unsafe. He says if they do, they should expect Police to respond. Read the article in full here. Comment on
ACT agrees with Grant Robertson’s comments today that tax is not the solution to the housing crisis – so why on earth is he piling on a new tax? The new Interest Deductibility rules means tenants are destined for increases in their rent as this law comes into effect on
Brian Tamaki Information Opinion Where have all our freedoms gone? So goes the next line in the song “…long time passing.” And according to many of our illustrious politicians, they agree with this tune! Both Sir John Key and PM Jacinda Ardern are joining a global political trend, where they
Hobson’s Pledge Trust Our petition calling on the Prime Minister to delete any reference in official communication to any name for our nation other than New Zealand has drawn a big response and has shown the extent to which the mainstream media blacklists anything other than the approved narrative.
National understands the Immigration Minister intends to make a long-overdue announcement this week about issues plaguing New Zealand’s immigration system after years of inaction and postponed promises, says National’s Immigration spokesperson Erica Stanford. “Having consistently ducked for cover throughout the pandemic, it is imperative the Minister seizes
David Seymour ACT Leader It’s time to start planning for life beyond lockdowns. We can’t keep living with the uncertainty that we could be locked down again at any moment. It’s time to look to the future with a renewed sense of confidence. Delta has changed the
New Conservative Ted Johnston New Conservative Spokesman New Conservative states the Labour government’s Covid 19 response strategy of ongoing lockdowns must stop. New Zealanders are tired of these continued restrictions on movement and freedom. Businesses are suffering with people digging into their retirement and other savings just to stay
Harry Hunt Information Opinion Common sense: everyone has it, no one uses it. That’s how I would describe the current political world. Fewer facts, more attacks. All it is doing is hurting the team. National has always had my unquestionable support until last year. It’s not because of
New information has revealed Amazon wanted to keep filming the Lord of the Rings television series in New Zealand, but the Government’s unwillingness to hear them out forced the series offshore, costing the economy billions, National’s Economic Development spokesperson Todd McClay says. “Despite Amazon petitioning hard to keep
Taxpayers’ Union Over the last few months, we’ve been swamped with questions from supporters across the country about Nanaia Mahuta’s plan to reform “Three Waters”. She and her Cabinet colleagues want to take billions of dollars’ worth of drinking water, waste water, and storm water assets off the
Many a politician or their ilk has been ‘wasted’ on Newshub Nation by Tova O’Brien so Judith Collins was right to be wary of suffering the same fate when asked to go on Nation. She said ‘Not Tova’, and Tova crowed about this comment on Newshub. Anyway a compromise
Grant Finch The ‘Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi as expressed by the Courts and the Waitangi Tribunal’ explains how the legal profession has arrived at its current position on the Treaty and invented ‘partnership’. This is too narrow an examination as it limits itself to the machinery of law
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com New Zealand is by a very long shot, the most geographically isolated developed nation in the world. For that reason we’ve always suffered a sizeable brain drain as anyone with an ounce of spirit, leaves for the more interesting life the wider world offers.
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, governments all around the world borrowed – or printed – money to stimulate the economy. It was enormously successful because the plan almost everywhere was to get people out of the dole queues and back into work by building infrastructure. That was how so many
