May as well print this up now guys. Len Brown tells us that he would relish the opportunity to work alongside Sue Bradford on the Auckland Super City Council. Seeing as Ms. Bradford appears to think that 87% of the country are morons, I would say supporting her for the city council would be the [...]

I don’t like thuggery. I blogged my disapproval of the idiots who picketed John Key’s personal residence and today I voice my distaste for those thugs that are sending death threats to Sue Bradford. This is a pathetic and cowardly thing to do. I don’t like Bradford’s ideology and think her politics are very dangerous, [...]

Evidently, Sue Bradford thinks that an 87.6%  ”NO” majority in the smacking referendum is not a conclusive result. This morning Ms Bradford said not too much should be read into the result. “I would have a much greater respect for the referendum result if it was based on a clearer question,” she said. “The ‘YES’ [...]

Such an interesting range of reactions in the blogosphere to Paula Bennett’s revealing of the amount of benefit the two ladies who features the the Herald over the weekend are receiving. Natasha Fuller and Jennifer Johnston appear in the article entitled Govt axe destroys dreams, claiming that Bennet’s removal of the allowance for sole parent [...]

There is now a site detailing some of the abject failures of the repeal of section 59 at http://yesvote.blogspot.com/. But for an example of how the repeal of section 59 not only does not address the problem of child abuse, it is not even near the same country; there is this lovely couple. Oneroa reached [...]

There is a follow up article in the Herald on Sunday about Unitec lecturer Pauline Bishop’s comments that time-out and sending children to the “naughty step” are unprofessional teaching tactics in preschools.  (see indiscipline).  Of particular interest in this comment: Dr Sarah Farquhar, chief executive of the Early Childhood Council, said Bishop’s remarks were “a bit off”. [...]

Jeanette Fitzsimons has announced she will stand down from the leadership of the Greens in June. With her goes the last vestiges of the environmental wing of the Greens, leaving the watermelon exposed to the pips. And talking of being given the pip, I see Sue Bradford has firmly throw her hat into the ring and Metiria [...]