No, not gay marriage (though that might). What will end in tears is Labour/the Greens NZ Power policy. I have already blogged how the policy itself is economic incompetence. And, despite Brian Rudman and Bryce Edwards waxing lyrical about the policy being similar to the Pharmac model, I have demonstrated that this is also a [...]
It is now more than 24 hours since David Shearer became the New Leader of the Labour party and, possibly, the opposition. I have been racking my brains to try and say anything about him. Good, bad, funny, witty. ANYTHING. Goodness, I thought Invisible Phil was hard work but at least he stuck his head [...]
The mask slipped briefly on Cunliffe yesterday. “if the Government is going to sell off precious state assets then we would not rule out re-nationalising some of them. And people need to be aware of that regulatory risk.” Today he is back-pedalling a lot: “At no time have I said that would have to be [...]
The MacDoctor has seen a plethora of reasons why people think Labour did so poorly in the elections. Arrogance, poor targeting of messages, same lineup as before, nasty to John Key, The thrill of Phil Goff etc. The MacDoctor think that most of this is baloney. Sure, Labour comes across as arrogant, distant and privileged. [...]
Like Helen Clarke, Goff and his sidekick Annette King have decided not to wait around for the night of the long knives and have resigned. Unlike Clarke, Goff is not naming a new leader – no one would listen to him anyway. There will now be a brief squabble between flea-bitten curs for the bone [...]
So that was the New Zealand elections. Excuse me while I yawn. While the pundits will all be gasping with shock and horror at the “sudden” rise of New Zealand First (The Winston Peters Party), there should be no surprise at that result. The history of MMP is that small parties in coalition government take [...]
It is sad to watch the terrible debilitating effect of Key Derangement Syndrome on opposition politicians and their pet lap-blogs. Every week there is a new attempt to smear John Key with some sort of scandal. Each week is more pathetic than the last. This past week we have had the unedifying sight of Labour [...]
For a group of people who are supposed to like groups of people, socialist really don’t seem to get folks at all. Take the hoo-ha over John Key’s remarks about Liz Hurley’s “hotness”. Sure, the remarks were a bit gauche, even prattish, but they perfectly capture the average New Zealand bloke who is, indeed, somewhat [...]
(Hat Tip: Nick D. Kim for the artwork) John Armstrong wonders this week where Phil Goff is getting all the money to fund the billions of dollars worth of promises he is making. John Key once surmised that Phil Goff was using the pixies at the bottom of his garden to finance his promises. However, [...]
Bernard Hickey lays into National‘s plan for a partial sale of some power generation SOEs and Air New Zealand. Actually, he lays into John Key – which makes me wonder if he hasn’t been hanging around too many lefties and contracted Key Derangement Syndrome. He says: In total, the four SOEs potentially up for sale [...]
