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Instead of Cosying Up to the CCP, National Should Be Telling Them to Get Stuffed
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Instead of Cosying Up to the CCP, National Should Be Telling Them to Get Stuffed

As China starts threatening other nations it is becoming increasingly apparent that we are going to have to pick sides. Australia has been directly threatened by the Chinese Government: The Chinese government has warned Australia to “distance” itself from the United States amid growing tensions between the two countries, saying

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The BFD Video: That Dude Is Gonna Be Running for President!

The BFD Video: That Dude Is Gonna Be Running for President!

Fox News co-host Greg Gutfeld lauded Ron DeSantis as a potential presidential candidate after the Florida governor unleashed on the media for criticizing his state’s coronavirus response. Speaking to the media Wednesday while standing beside Vice President Mike Pence, DeSantis explained how “a lot of people” in that

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Boris Johnson Makes Calculated Move to Support Cummings

Boris Johnson Makes Calculated Move to Support Cummings

BREAKING NEWS Following on from the revelations about the senior advisor, Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson is fighting a rear-guard action to avoid sacking him. Grant Shapps, the Secretary of State for Transport appeared on the Andrew Marr show on the BBC this morning and gave an interview of toe-

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In the UK the Blame Game Has Started
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In the UK the Blame Game Has Started

I was going to tell you about the litany of cock-ups, mistakes, illegal application of the law and so on, but there really are too many to choose from so I will look at the politics of the situation here in the UK. It really is developing into an

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Justifying the Unjustifiable

Justifying the Unjustifiable

A little mystery rippled across Wellington last week. Some public-spirited soul attached a stainless-steel plaque to an Aro St retaining wall commemorating the incident from 1974 when senior public servant and Soviet spy Bill Sutch was apprehended while passing a dossier of documents to KGB officer Dimitri Razgovorov.

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Speech: Todd Muller New National Leader

Speech: Todd Muller New National Leader

Todd Muller National Party Leader The past few months, our country has made many sacrifices. You have made many sacrifices. You have put a lot on the line to get us through this crisis. Now, we must begin taking another step forward together, with confidence. The confidence to rebuild our

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Is Todd Muller the Answer?
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Is Todd Muller the Answer?

I was picking that the National caucus wouldn’t have the courage to make a leadership change so close to an election. I felt it was too little and way too late and I still feel that way. Not because leaving it so late means they have little time to

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ACT Party: Election 2020
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ACT Party: Election 2020

BFD Political corner: Election 2020 is a series that features political speeches, political ads and political campaigns on Social media from a range of different political parties in the lead up to the New Zealand election. Today we have the Act Party:

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Hon. Jenny Salesa Gets Something Right

Press Release: ACT Party “ACT is thrilled to see Jenny Salesa promising to reduce regulatory burden on small detached buildings,” according to ACT Leader David Seymour. “Salesa is one of the worst-performing Ministers. It took her two years to ban kids from vaping, then introduced legislation that did more

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The Toilet Papers

The Toilet Papers

Information Satire Words of wisdom from eighty-year-old toilet attendant and political commentator, Ken Bottie. When I heard about Jacinda’s plan for a four day working week, I was sceptical. Admittedly I’m not what you would call an educated man. My schooling ended when I was twelve.

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Mulling over Muller

Mulling over Muller

I made the point in an earlier article prior to Friday’s leadership challenge that my reservation with Todd Muller was his views on climate change and other matters pertaining to the environment. While I still hold that view, l have to admit to being impressed with his performance since

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Matthew Hooton Thrown under the Bus

Matthew Hooton Thrown under the Bus

All of a sudden the MSM is very big on conflicts of interest even if they were eventually declared. There has been a big pile-on and a concerted attempt to throw political commentator and lobbyist Matthew Hooton under a bus. Before I go any further, for the record I

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New Zealand Joins the Third World

New Zealand Joins the Third World

Lindsay Perigo solopassion.com When Parliament rushed through the Wuhan Virus Public Health Response Bill last week, the redoubtable Cameron Slater observed that New Zealand had thereby formally become a police state. The following atrocities from the Act make clear that this claim was not hyperbole. Allow time for the

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