Skip to content

Politics

Everything about politics

white ceramic mug on table

BFD Daily Opinion Poll

Take our Daily Opinion Poll and see how your views compare to other readers and then share the poll on social media. By sharing the poll you will help even more readers to discover The BFD. Share this BFD Opinion poll so others can discover The BFD.

Members Public
photography of school room

Associate Minister of Education Needs Educating

Kelvin Davis, the Associate Minister of Education, is in something of a lather. He says Maoris deserve nothing less than achieving at the highest levels in the world whatever they do. Quite right Kelvin, but what is the best way to achieve this? Davis said among some teachers there was

Members Public
Daily News Roundup – 26 November 2020

Daily News Roundup – 26 November 2020

Housing Daniel Dunkley (Stuff): Could Boomer Tax be a glimpse of the future and help solve generational inequality? Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Adrian Orr puts tax back on the table in affordable housing debate Heather du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): Housing Blame rests with Labour Miriam Bell (Stuff): House sellers cashing

Members Public
Act Predicted Labour’s CGT by Stealth

Act Predicted Labour’s CGT by Stealth

“Labour’s plan to introduce a capital gains tax by stealth vindicates ACT’s opposition to the brightline test”, says David Seymour. “Grant Robertson has asked Treasury to investigate a range of tax options, including extending the brightline test beyond five years. “ACT predicted this. When National introduced the brightline

Members Public
FREE Taste: Herd Community the Way Forward

FREE Taste: Herd Community the Way Forward

Information Satire The Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, speaking from her podium of truth, announced today that she has decided that herd community is the path Aotearoa will follow rather than the bothersome and problematic herd immunity. The One-Team-Game, 10,000 pixels to be compulsory throughout Aotearoa. The BFD.

Members Public
Why House Prices Will Keep Rising

Why House Prices Will Keep Rising

Grant Robertson has written a letter telling the Reserve Bank that the government is unhappy about the cost of housing, and to find a way that the Reserve Bank can assist the government to relieve the situation for potential homebuyers. Adrian Orr is not someone who likes criticism. The Minister

Members Public
brown pizza on black plate

South Australia’s Lockdown Panic: Pizza, Lies and Stuff-Ups

If there’s one thing that’s characterised the Wuhan plague, it’s the astonishing incompetence of so many governments and bureaucracies. Despite their conceit that it’s their place to run our lives to the level of ruling just how many people we’re allowed to have at weddings

Members Public
Stop Playing Politics or Face a Ban, Nintendo Warns Animal Crossing Gamers

Stop Playing Politics or Face a Ban, Nintendo Warns Animal Crossing Gamers

Hong Kong Free Press globalvoices.org “What Animal Crossing represented was not just entertainment […]” The following post was written by Candice Chau and originally published on Hong Kong Free Press on November 21, 2020. This edited version is republished on Global Voices under a content partnership agreement. Japanese video game

Members Public
The Dominion Mis-Counting Machine

The Dominion Mis-Counting Machine

Paul C Newsmax has reported that Trump’s legal team are suggesting that the contentious Dominion vote-counting machine, as used in a considerable number of states, is programmed to multiply the number of Biden votes by +1.25 and Trump’s votes by -0.75. (Maybe those figures are

Members Public
Return of the Swamp Monsters

Return of the Swamp Monsters

In case anyone were in any doubt what a Biden presidency would mean, would-be King Alligator is already assembling his army of swamp monsters and getting ready to pump a river of stagnant slime back into Washington. The lickspittle press are singing the praises of a “return to normalcy”

Members Public