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Councillors Should Be Elected on Merit
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Councillors Should Be Elected on Merit

Hobson’s Pledge Late in 2017 Councillors in five regions voted, without seeking prior public approval, to establish separate Maori wards. As a result, dedicated locals, supported by Hobson’s Pledge, were forced to collect the required number of signatures to force binding referenda to see what the public actually

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Letter to the Editor: Media and Local Authority Elections
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Letter to the Editor: Media and Local Authority Elections

Dear Editor, I am one of 13 Mayoral candidates in the Local Authority election for the Christchurch City Council. I took my policy brochure into The Press‘s office. I also sent my photograph to the editor Kamala Hayman. There was no response. Two weeks later The Press published a

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Labour’s Fails Series: Pre-Government Broken Promises
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Labour’s Fails Series: Pre-Government Broken Promises

Three-quarters of the way through this government’s year of delivery and here are some promises Labour made in their 2017 campaign that they have failed to deliver on. This is the first in a series of Labour fails which will continue under various categories. It is not necessarily

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Obfuscation Tactics 101
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Obfuscation Tactics 101

The prime minister ‘Jaz’ (I have a communications degree) Ardern see-saws in Obfuscation 101 tactics now. Sorry, Jaz, but we can see straight through it. Ms Ardern: You weren’t asked when you first saw the claims, you were asked when you first knew of them, when the sexual

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What Happens When the Government Is in Trouble?

What Happens When the Government Is in Trouble?

It is a rhetorical question, because you all know the answer. Either the baby is wheeled out, or there is a puff piece on Jacinda Ardern. I waited for a baby pic on Friday, but this week has been so bad for the government, and for Jacinda in particular, that

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Hollywood Stars Deserve Guns Because They’re Better Than You

Hollywood Stars Deserve Guns Because They’re Better Than You

Joe Rogan recently blasted the hypocrisy of Hollywood elites over guns. “No one is more anti-gun than Hollywood…the left-wing people in Hollywood are the most vocal, the most virtue-signaling, the quickest to jump on their pedestal. Meanwhile, what percentage of their f***ing movies involve gun

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More Virtue-Signalling Companies Line Up to Go Broke

More Virtue-Signalling Companies Line Up to Go Broke

Gillette, Dick’s Sporting Goods, ESPN, the NFL, Electronic Arts, Marvel Comics…there is apparently no end of companies all-too-ready to get woke and go broke. EA’s iconic Battlefield franchise tanked when the company shoe-horned SJW “stronk wahmen” characters into a WWII historical game. Marvel Comics

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Things That Make Me Go Hmm

Things That Make Me Go Hmm

The sign language for “know nothing” looks like the old OK signal or as the Paddy Gowers of the world would suggest the ‘white power’ hand sign. That must have caused Ardern some inner turmoil trying to explain things to deaf people this week.

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Labor’s White Australia Past Is Showing

Labor’s White Australia Past Is Showing

As BFD readers will know, I have been nothing if not forthright about the threat that the Chinese communist regime poses to Australia, New Zealand and indeed the entire Pacific region. Time and again I have warned that Beijing is steadily infiltrating our institutions, seeking to influence politicians, stealing state

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Hypocrites, Damned Hypocrites, & Climate Troughers

Leonardo Di Caprio and his superyachts. James Cameron and Harrison Ford and their respective fleets of cars, planes and boats. The private jets, mansions and endless, long-haul Business Class flights of celebrities, activists and politicians. It’s a given by now that the louder the screeching of climate activists,

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The Bloodletting is Not Over Yet

The Bloodletting is Not Over Yet

The political bloodletting is not over yet. There are plenty more empty pikes waiting for the heads that may need to be sacrificed in order to protect the prime minister. The buck should stop with her and as this scandal spirals out of control she should be sacrificed to stem

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