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Someone is Telling Porkies and it Doesn’t Look Like it is Winston
Lester Gray really is doing himself no favours whatsoever by continuing his wonky jihad against NZ First. Little wonder that Winston Peters is starting to tell the truth about Lester Gray. A Newspaper reports: New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has accused his former party president Lester Gray of having
An Idiots GUIDE to Response on Political Twitter
Carpe Donktum @CarpeDonktum Trump Tweets this Picture: MAGA: THIS IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL HORSE THAT WAS EVER CREATED LIBS: YOU SHOULD BE IN JAIL, THE HORSE DESERVES BETTER CNN BREAKING NEWS: President Trump tweeted a horse that was probably thinking bad thoughts, our panel discusses after the break. MSNBC: President
Jacinda’s Reshuffle and the Vaping Legislation
Jacinda is planning a reshuffle in the new year to help her with her narrative of being more competent than Simon Bridges. This means that there are some nervous Labour Ministers who have not exactly covered themselves in glory. It is not just Phil Twyford and Iain Lees-Galloway who
Oral Questions – 5 December 2019
Questions to Ministers Dr DUNCAN WEBB to the Minister of Commerce and Consumer Affairs: What recent announcements has he seen on the retail fuel market? Hon PAULA BENNETT to the Prime Minister: Does she stand by all her Government’s policies and statements? Hon PAUL GOLDSMITH to the Minister of
Lester Gray & Nick Smith Playing Games with Parliamentary Processes
Lester Gray is using National MP Nick Smith to continue his wonky jihad against NZ First and now they are wanting to use parliamentary processes to try and destroy the party that Gray used to be the president of. Nick Smith seems intent on provoking the substantial lawsuit that is
Oral Questions – 4 December 2019
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 agree with the Treasury that we are “likely to see overall New Zealand GDP growth fall below Budget forecasts”
Stuart Nash MUST Resign
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Labour’s Infrastructure Promises: Smart Politics or More Hot Air?
Labour announced that it will spend $400 million on schools; they will fast track some of its infrastructure projects and they will borrow to do it, thus loosening the Budget Responsibility Rules that they have adhered to so tightly up until now. In other words, the 2020 election campaign has
No Climate Emergency
Viv Forbes Viv Forbes has science and financial qualifications and long experience in mining, farming, weather cycles, bushfires and politics in Australia. He was an active member of the Mt Walker bush fire brigade for over 20 years. He remembers the terrible Millennium drought and he and his wife fought
Labour to Toughen ‘ Hate Speech’ Laws
ACT Party Revealed: Labour confirms it will toughen our “hate speech” laws next year. Giving a government censor more power to criminalise what you say is dangerous. Freedom to Speak There is a growing danger of taxpayer-funded universities abusing their health and safety obligations in order to ‘deplatform’ speakers
Ryan Bridge is Dead Right
Ryan Bridge gives climate protestors a piece of his mind over their annoying habit of lecturing us all about how we must act now to save the planet, whilst ignoring the same imperative themselves. At the weekend climate protesters poured oil over the steps at Simon Bridges’ electorate office, defacing