Hark! What is that strange disembodied twittering that I hear? Is it a ghost? A telephone answering machine? a vague afterthought? Yes! It’s all three ! It’s the Invisible Phil…
Once again, Phil abandons invisibility in order to utter an inanity. It’s rather like watching a Klingon Bird of Prey on Star Trek, de-cloaking and firing, [...]

I see the thrill of Phil is fading fast. The latest Colmar Brunton poll sees him sliding down four points to 5%. That’s barely above the margin of error. I don’t think I recall even Bill English ever dipping below double figures in a Colmar Brunton poll. And Labour is now on 31%, which is [...]

I see that Phil Goff has just revealed the depth of his fiscal ignorance in a speech to federated farmers. I note that he is not actually saying that the Reserve Bank is a waste of time (almost certainly true) but that the policy targets should be liberalised to include a whole bunch of others. [...]

The left’s pointless inquiry into bank rates has now been released and can be accessed here. It says it is the Report of the Parliamentary Inquiry into Banking but it is not, of course, an official parliamentary inquiry, it is a Labour/Jim’s Vanity Party/Green inquiry and has no official government sanction as far as I [...]

Phil Goff now admits that Labour made “mistakes.”
Mr Goff said he wanted to “draw a line under the past”, citing unpopular policies such as those telling people what size shower heads and which lightbulbs they could use.
“We’d stopped listening to what people’s priorities were and seemed to be working on issues they thought were sideshows,” [...]

A fascinating insight into the mind of an unredeemed marxist can be found in John Minto’s blog today:
The greatest tragedy of Taito Phillip Field is not his being the first MP in New Zealand history to be convicted of bribery, corruption and obstruction of justice. Neither is it that his career as the first Pacific [...]

‘There are no pixies printing cash’ Key tells Labour
Labour’s call for the dole to be paid to redundant workers even if their partners were on high incomes would cost about $1 billion over three years, Prime Minister John Key said today.
“It demonstrates (Labour) haven’t got their heads around what’s happening in 2009,” Mr Key said.
“It’s [...]

A number of bloggers have comment on the fact that this pamphlet was apparently paid for by the taxpayer, as usual. If so, then it is a complete waste of money, whatever your political leanings, as it has to be the most pointless political tract I have ever seen.
What exactly were the producers of this [...]

I don’t agree fully with Bill Ralston’s take on the petty distractions played upon by the opposition. Ralston starts with:
When the Government came to power, the prevailing wisdom was Labour would, as usual after a defeat, implode into warring factions and its leadership would be in disarray. With the opposition MPs busy scrapping among themselves, [...]

I see I am not the only person in the blogosphere to think that Shrill Goff  is being a bit of a prat, as usual. He is now trying to make mileage out of the fact that Key took no action on Worth when Goff brought the original complaint from a Labour staffer.  In reality, the only [...]