NZ Politics
The Real Losers Won’t Be On the Ballot
All we need is for centre voters to split their vote: electorate vote National and party vote New Zealand First or ACT depending on your taste. That will ensure a centre-right victory this election and many more to come.
Quick Hit: Hipkins Dumped Leoni, Now He Might Need Her Seat
Chris Hipkins dumped Kerrin Leoni over gang campaigning. She is still on the Tāmaki Makaurau ballot as Labour, a pre-resignation Curia poll had her two points off the seat and, if she wins, only Labour can pull the party-hopping trigger.
Who Should Hold the Political Power to Govern New Zealand?
That is the real issue behind Te Pāti Māori’s new constitutional policy.
The Gangs Row Did Not Miss The Left. It Hit The Whole Bloc.
1News says Labour held steady through the gangs row. Labour did. The left did not. The poll was in the field the week Kerrin Leoni’s footage came out, and the right bloc now sits on 61 seats to the left’s 56.
An Overhang Ends The List Gravy Train
Rodney Hide says National is heading for an overhang. If he is right, National’s party vote stops buying seats, the list loses its power and MPs who have never won an electorate lose their free pass. Paul Goldsmith has lost Epsom five times.
A Monkey in a Banana Shop
The Great Divider paid to preach to antisemites on the taxpayer’s dime.
It Seems Like a Bad Deal
We could do better with the 10-year $30 million investment in the WHO.
The Limits of Cleverness Versus Capitalism
If Labour and Sepuloni are returned to government, this time with the influence of the Greens and Te Pāti Māori, how much worse will these numbers get?
The Case for Saving Chris Bishop
A parliament without Chris Bishop would be a worse parliament.
Guy Fawkes Is Two Days Too Early
There it is folks, the asylum collection personified. They will fail to light the fuse of those wanting sanity in government and policies designed to grow the wealth of the country.
Dame Jacinda – An Empathic Leader
I’m not going to even try and make sense of this. Graham Norton, Mark Scott and all the rest of you simps can have her.
Quick Hit: ACT’s $22b In Four Lines
ACT’s manifesto puts $22 billion of savings on the table over four years, debt $12.4b lower by 2031, Super at 67 by 2035, and a three-year minimum wage freeze. One headline muddled that to $2b. Hipkins still has not priced his first week.