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It’s hard to deny that a push is in action within the political and media left to remove Jeremy Corbyn from power before the next UK general election – which, given the mind-bogglingly inept governance of Teresa May and her party, could be any time. In anything other than
President Trump has dropped another one of his Twitter bombs and our PM has said that she utterly disagrees with him, which is not at all surprising, as she no doubt is worried that his next Twitter bomb will be about her. Trump’s tweet was about four women known
Willem Van Spronsen, who attacked an Immigration and Customs Enforcement centre over the weekend, identified himself as a member of the left-wing Antifa movement in his manifesto. He died in a shootout Saturday after storming an ICE centre in Tacoma, Washington, armed with flares and a rifle. Van Spronsen,
Winston Peters, our Foreign Affairs Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, travels to Washington again this week to try to secure a trade deal with the US, particularly over steel tariffs. Winston was talking up his chances of pulling off a deal, seeming confident that he will manage it this time.
Today’s face of the day Planned Parenthood CEO & President Leana Wen had her employment terminated by her employer because she refused to say that men can get pregnant! because of “philosophical differences over the direction and future of Planned Parenthood.” She was in the position for less than
By George This is the letter I sent to my MP. I will share their response with you. Hi … First of all, I would like to acknowledge your sterling representation of your electorate. You have served the community well, the following correspondence is not directed exclusively to you but to
Northland Regional Council has voted to top up the salaries of councillors by up to $6,000 if they have childcare expenses. The option for childcare was introduced by the Remuneration Authority after lobbying by Hurunui District Councillor and mother-of-three, Julia McLean. However, the new allowance is purely
by The Blonde Twenty-three years ago in 1996, a totally new voting system was introduced called Mixed-Member Proportional representation. It was like a smack on the head. People were reeling and gob-smacked trying to get their heads around the way this new system worked. I often wonder
National party Economic mismanagement and recklessness by the government has seen a decline in business confidence that is hurting manufacturers. Remember the so-called ‘Manufacturing Crisis’ that Labour cried about in Opposition? Back in 2013, confidence levels ranged between 17 and 44. Now manufacturing confidence levels are -57 and the
It seems that there’s no nanny-state soapbox too pointless that local councils can’t work themselves up into a virtue-signalling lather about it. Once upon a time, ratepayers laboured under the impression that the role of local councils was to see to it that the rubbish was
By John Not a day goes by without the publication of an illogical rant by some unhinged politician of the Left. These poor deluded creatures, deceived by their own beliefs, are only succeeding in making themselves the laughing stock of normal thinking people. Unfortunately, much of what they have to
Thanks for the update, some interesting reading. One statement which seems a bit off is The usually unsympathetic Whaleoil blog even allowed itself to admit ACT is a party whose time has again come.”. Over the years there has been considerable support for ACT on the Whaleoil Blog to the
