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National’s caucus has become a colander. Caucus meetings are now leaking moments after they’ve finished. Simon Bridges is now answering more questions about his leadership than anything else and what I’ve been saying all along has been proven true. National’s caucus hasn’t seen their internal
You know you are screwed when the former leader’s mouthpiece and a pal of your deputy write articles about your imminent demise. John Armstrong has done precisely that: There are no attractive scenarios for the Opposition after a calamitous week from Bridges. Simon Bridges has to go. The moment
George A disturbing repercussion of this virus has been the dismantling of democracy. The current Government’s historical performance has been wiped clean. Its previous two and a half years of mismanagement have vanished without trace. All the relevant indicators that measure the Government’s performance through its term of
Questions to Ministers Hon SIMON BRIDGES to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by all her Government’s statements and actions? Hon PAUL GOLDSMITH to the Minister of Finance: Does he stand by all of his statements and policies? KIRITAPU ALLAN to the Minister of Finance: What actions is the
George The soft stuff is over. Close our borders, shut the country down, enforce a police state and shower borrowed money amongst us creating the falsehood of security. Now what? Labour believes the country will start its recovery as soon as the dust settles. The dust won’t be settled
Live meetings of the Epidemic Response Committee of the New Zealand Parliament. The Epidemic Response Committee was established on 25 March 2020 to consider and report to the House on matters relating to the Government’s management of the COVID-19 epidemic. Learn more about this committee and browse committee
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The bold court actions by some Aucklanders against the Prime Minister and other government officials, seeking a writ of habeas corpus, were always doomed to failure. For the cold hard fact was the ill-considered lock-down was legal. Thus we were subject to the
Kathleen Horne COVID-19 has given Jacinda Ardern, Grant Robertson and their government colleagues the opportunity to take lying, hypocrisy and scapegoating to a whole new level. Let’s examine the case for lying about cash support for businesses via a make-believe court case with a judge interrogating the
Making decisions on the trot is never a good way to do anything. Ask any small business owner. They don’t just blindly bumble along adjusting what they do to fit whatever the flavour of the day might be. Even the smallest business venture does cash flow projections and measures
Alex Davis theemperorsrobes.blogspot.com On March 17th, eight days before New Zealand entered lockdown, Professor John Ioannidis, one of the world’s most cited medical researchers, published an article warning that the world was rushing into a series of panic-stricken responses to COVID-19 on the basis of
When you look at the anatomy of a coup, the first things to look for are signs of instability. It starts with minor leaks, then bigger ones, then people put their names to things and the leak turns into a deluge. National has reached that point. Firstly abysmal poll numbers
Information Satire Some time having passed since my visit from the Kindness and Wellbeing Police in the very hard on the eyes shapes of officers Hagar and Rawsprat, your intrepid eyewitness was beginning to feel that it was high time that the Flyspy listening device was again pressed into service
LionRed The author is based in the UK at the moment (ex-pat Kiwi) and travels the world as a consultant in developing countries working on business development. As a result, he is totally cynical about NGOs, the UN and WHO etc. He is regularly exposed to contact with governments
“I used some pretty bad words” is the sort of language I might have heard in my primary teaching days from a guilty child caught out for swearing. This is Labour’s Deborah Russell’s juvenile explanation during an interview on Newstalk ZB, discussing her thoughtless question on the ERC
Dr Muriel Newman wrote an excellent article which was published on The BFD on Friday. The content contained in the article should send a chill up the spine of every person in New Zealand who believes in freedom, democracy and the rule of law. Currently, all three are being eroded
When Great Britain emerged blinking from the rubble of the Second World War it was a nation hugely in debt and on the brink of a silent social revolution. The country’s war debt to the United States was in the order of $3.7 billion, and despite Harold Macmillan’
