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Silly Questioning Just Makes the Prime Minister Look Competent
Barry Soper highlighted in his column yesterday the absolutely shocking performance at Question Time by Simon Bridges which also proves that the hand brake is working: Jacinda Ardern has in the past invited us to read between the lines, so with prime ministerial permission it was worth applying the exercise
How National Were Trapped into Backing Dodgy ‘Curry Munchers’
You’ve got to hand it to Simon Bridges and Gerry Brownlee, on Wednesday they managed to trap themselves into looking like they back dodgy ‘curry munchers‘ as they pursued Shane Jones for being racist. Barry Soper writes: If the man himself is under pressure, and there’s plenty for
Nat Party: ‘We know nothing’, ‘What money?’ ‘Wasn’t us in the photos’
The National Party is now in full Sergeant Schultz mode saying that they know nothing after Jami-Lee Ross revealed in parliament that the National Party has taken foreign cash from Chinese Communist Party linked people, and worse for them, the SFO has traced the money flow back to China.
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Oral Questions – 5 March 2020
Questions to Ministers Hon PAULA BENNETT 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? GREG O’CONNOR to the Minister of Finance: What recent reports
Mallard Out for a Duck
Our ‘impartial’ Speaker was working overtime during Question Time in the House on Tuesday. As usual it was Ardern he was running interference for; but this time it was by proxy – in the form of Winston Peters. Gerry Brownlee was having a fine time playing off the comments of Shane
NZ First Sticking to Their Guns
The NZ First “handbrake” is working again. I wrote a few weeks ago that Stuart Nash was overly confident about getting his anti-shooter bill passed, and voila!, NZ First is holding it up: The Labour party is struggling to get support to pass a new gun law as NZ
Bad News, Scandinavians: You’re Nothing
One of the key signs of an incipient genocide is a concerted campaign to “un-person” the target. The would-be genociders make a concerted effort to de-humanise their victims. The “Strange Death of Europe” has not yet reached the stage that native Europeans are being denounced as “rats”
Oral Questions – 4 March 2020
Questions to Ministers Hon SIMON BRIDGES to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by all her Government’s statements and actions? WILLOW-JEAN PRIME to the Minister of Finance: What recent reports has he seen on the New Zealand economy? Hon PAUL GOLDSMITH to the Minister of Finance: Does he
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Trump Is Literally Hitler
Godwin’s Law: An Internet adage asserting that “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1“; that is, if an online discussion (regardless of topic or scope) goes on long enough, sooner or later someone will compare someone or something to
Part One: Church & State Summit a Roaring Success
Dave Pellowe brought his Church & State Summit to New Zealand for this year, the third year it’s been running. The mission of the organisation is “to help Christians first be better informed about the Biblical basis for political involvement and to then be better involved in providing the
Why Aren’t Labour and National Also under SFO Investigation?
Right now Phil Goff and Lianne Dalziel are under investigation for using a dodgy artifice to launder big donations by holding allegedly fake auctions and declaring those donations as anonymous. As was pointed out in an earlier post, this is a standard, and supposedly illegal, way political parties and candidates
The BFD Video: Freedom of Speech ‘no longer exists’ in Australia & the UK
Stringent government control and oppressive social media platforms are forcing Australians to self-censor themselves, according to controversial media personality Katie Hopkins. Ms Hopkins, who is known for her strident support of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, says social media giants like Twitter and Facebook often punish those whose views
Oral Questions – 3 March 2020
Questions to Ministers TAMATI COFFEY to the Minister of Finance: He aha nga ripoata hou kua kitea e ia mo te ohanga o Aotearoa? Translation: What recent reports has he seen on the New Zealand economy? 2. Hon SIMON BRIDGES to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by all her