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Tweet of the Day

Tweet of the Day

Liar, liar Tova should be on fire. What an absolute fib from ?@NewshubPolitics?. I have visited Hutt South with ?@cjsbishop? 3 times during our campaign, and Ms O’Brien was told that. Focus on what matters. The NZ economy is going into the worst time in 160 years. #TwoTicksBlue https:

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BFD Daily Opinion Poll

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. If you enjoyed this BFD poll please share it.

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Sheriff Collins and the Asset Stripping Gang

Sheriff Collins and the Asset Stripping Gang

Information Satire I keep hearing the words the ‘WINDS of CHANGE’.  BURT from ‘MARY POPPINS’ soliloquies “Winds in the East, mist coming in, like something is brewin’, and ‘bout to begin. Can’t put my finger on what lies in store, But I fear what’s to happen all happened

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Our Wet Woke Councils
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Our Wet Woke Councils

Arthur Rising Damp was a popular British sitcom produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV. It broadcast from 2 September 1974 until 9 May 1978. It concerned a sneaky and cunning landlord, who was entirely self-serving and self-interested, and his long-suffering tenants. However, this article concerns our increasingly

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Kindness Doesn’t Combat Poverty or Create Jobs

Kindness Doesn’t Combat Poverty or Create Jobs

Our poor are the people most affected by lockdowns with some unable to pay the rent or feed and clothe their children. Agnes Magele volunteers for Auckland Action Against Poverty in South Auckland and struggles to feed, clothe and house her three children saying “Where I come from there’s

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Letter to the Editor: ACT Promotes Location Tracking

Letter to the Editor: ACT Promotes Location Tracking

Dear Editor This election, one of the most critical issues facing our country is the government’s response to COVID-19. It is this response that is crippling the country’s economy, and also destroying our freedoms in many ways. Freedom is becoming a crucial issue for many voters, as

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Daily News Roundup – 15 October 2020

Daily News Roundup – 15 October 2020

Wealth tax Daniel Dunkley (Stuff): Tax the wealthy? I don’t think so Heather Du Plessis-Allan (Newstalk ZB): National’s ‘wealth tax’ assault isn’t working Thomas Coughlan (Stuff): Jacinda Ardern’s absurd day in Christchurch, still battling the wealth tax Newshub: Revealed: How your wealth ranks compared to

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Yet Another Border Cock-up, but Hey, Let’s Keep Moving

Yet Another Border Cock-up, but Hey, Let’s Keep Moving

Michael Morrah, perhaps the only real journalist at Newshub, has busted the Government yet again, for lackadaisical border and quarantine processes. Jacinda Ardern has campaigned, if you can call mouthing meaningless platitudes campaigning, on how grand their plan was at the border. Yet here we are again looking at just

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Face of the Day

Face of the Day

Today’s face of the day Chris Baillie is a Future Act MP who held “climate hysteria sceptics” meetings at a Nelson high school. The MSM via The Spinoff on Tuesday were desperately spinning to try to turn that fact into a bad thing. They described his factual comment that

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WANTED: Letters to the Editor
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WANTED: Letters to the Editor

The BFD needs you to send in Letters to the Editor Letters to the editor are often the most read section of the dead tree media and online new media like The BFD is no exception to that rule. We know many of you have opinions on the latest news

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Another Fine Lefty Conspiracy Theory Shot Down by Facts

Another Fine Lefty Conspiracy Theory Shot Down by Facts

I’m almost at the end of my tether with the Amazon Prime series The Boys. What started out as a witty commentary on the superhero genre is growing more frustratingly woke by the week. To be sure, its sympathies were always obvious, but the second series in particular has

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