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Tim Jago ACT President The narrative has changed! Our extremely successful ReAct party AGM, the simultaneous launching of new and clarified policies, and the “Call to ACTion” to prepare early for Campaign 2020 have – as intended – generated renewed discussions across the country about the need for a party on the
ACT party The start of the government’s gun ‘buyback’ (it never owned them) is another day of political theatre over good policy. ACT stood alone against the firearms legislation in April because of its rushed and undemocratic nature. We said that it was done more for CNN than the
Too Right A regular column by John Black The Black Sheep Blog Rightminds Kamala Harris is the perfect anti-Trump candidate – a photo negative inversion of the Don. In fact, if they ever meet, the universe may implode such is their perfect cosmic opposition. Trust me, its physics. She’s
The Government will pocket almost half a billion dollars in new taxes even if its plan to hike the price of higher-emissions vehicles doubles the number of cleaner cars on our roads. Associate Transport Minister Julie Anne Genter claims her plan is revenue-neutral. But her ministry’s own
Media have reported that John Banks has hired a great team of political strategists as he decides whether to throw his hat again into the ring for the Auckland Mayoralty. The biggest bonus for Banksie is that Michelle Boag is not available as she is on John Tamihere’s team.
By John Christie’s blog post commenting on Matthew Hooton’s opinion piece in a Newspaper again raises the old chestnut: should National court Winston or not. The fact that we agonise over this every three years is exactly what Winston wants. We are in fact willing participants in a
Our favourite Green list MP just keeps on digging… Somehow I don’t think that she is at all sorry for Gaslighting Jewish people on Twitter despite her carefully worded apology. Just LOOK at her latest Twitaster… Below is a screenshot of what she tweeted just in case Golriz deletes
By Beth Houlbrooke ACT party Deputy Leader / Vice President From Ryan Bridge on the AM Show: “Farmer Bob from central Otago with his Ford Ranger will be hit with a $3000 tax, while latte-sipping, lentil-eating Fabio from Ponsonby with his VW Golf Electric will get an $8000 discount.
What does Simon Bridges do about finding a coalition partner? Does he do what John Key did and refuse to deal with NZ First? Or does he offer NZ First an olive branch? Perhaps he does what he is doing at the moment, which is sitting on the fence, undecided
Today’s face of the day has apologised for her Tweet but has not retracted her lie that Jesus and Mary were Palestinian refugees. Her carefully worded apology, therefore, is nothing but weasel words. This is not the first time that she has upset the Jewish community. It is a
By Frank N Further For the first time in a few years, I went to a political meeting yesterday morning. The sitting MP had arranged a “SuperBlues” meeting, with Paula Bennett advertised as guest speaker. I thought that I would go and raise my thought that losing freedom of speech
Our own Green party has two anti-Israel MPs in co-leader Marama Davidson and Golriz Ghahraman. Golriz has shown her hand more obviously this week with her gaslighting of Jews on Twitter. They have both shown us that the Green party has no love for Jews, but is a
