political parties

You can never, ever, have too many Teslas

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:29 am, June 21st, 2023 - 55 comments

Fresh from news that Christopher Luxon ordered a State supplied Tesla when his household already owns one comes news that the household Tesla was upgraded, and that the clean car discount was obtained.

Winning ugly

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:19 am, June 21st, 2023 - 146 comments

Another week and another example of National using dog whistle racism to stir up hatred and try and gain political advantage. This time it is to attack the notion that our health system should be seeking to look after those most in need.

On a schism by the unrighteous and immoral

Written By: lprent - Date published: 3:03 pm, June 20th, 2023 - 21 comments

The latest from the fledgling Democracy NZ is a classic schism by people who don’t want to actually achieve anything useful. It has lost about a third of its senior candidates. Classic for those who prioritise their own personal freedom over cooperation and community in their pursuit of power.

Dumber

Written By: advantage - Date published: 9:52 am, June 18th, 2023 - 34 comments

New Zealand is not an intellectual or innovation powerhouse but the rapid decline of our entire tertiary education is a tragedy.

Luxon Aeterna

Written By: advantage - Date published: 8:02 am, June 16th, 2023 - 48 comments

Ad reports on Christopher Luxon’s meeting in Wanaka.

You can never have too many Teslas

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:43 am, June 14th, 2023 - 96 comments

Over recent periods National has run a very tightly focused campaign against state support for Tesla owners. But news that Christopher Luxon actively sought a Government supplied Tesla when he already owns one suggests that he thinks that the rules should be different for him.

How not to win votes and influence people

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:45 am, June 13th, 2023 - 172 comments

Christopher Luxon has gone onto the charm offensive by describing New Zealand as a negative, wet, whiny, inward looking country that has lost the plot.

The hypocrisy of the attacks on Michael Wood

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 1:20 pm, June 12th, 2023 - 13 comments

According to National holding a modest shareholding can open a Minister to allegations of conflict of interest but owning seven investment properties and proposing beneficial tax treatment of landlords does not.

Luxon, the idiot for whom ignorance is bliss

Written By: lprent - Date published: 12:45 pm, June 12th, 2023 - 29 comments

Last night I watched Christopher Luxon in a interview with Jack Tame on Q&A from youtube. My takeaway from it was that I don’t want this fool anywhere near actual policy. He exhibited a blissful ignorance about downstream effects of genetic engineering, climate change, and productivity in our economy. Even where I agreed with him like on GE – I didn’t want this idiot implementing policy on it.

This is what ending poverty looks like in New Zealand

Written By: weka - Date published: 6:05 am, June 12th, 2023 - 160 comments

Poverty is a political choice, and the Green Party is choosing to end it. – James Shaw

Greens announce income guarantee and wealth tax policy

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:31 pm, June 11th, 2023 - 65 comments

The Green Party has today announced an income guarantee and a wealth tax.

National picks a fight over GE

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:31 am, June 11th, 2023 - 19 comments

National continues to appease Federated Farmers and has just announced a policy of easing up of restrictions and safeguards on Genetic Engineering.

Much ado about nothing

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:20 pm, June 6th, 2023 - 227 comments

Michael Wood has been attacked today for some slightly sloppy handling of personal paperwork and not getting rid of shares as quickly as he wanted to.

Blowin’ in the wind

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:02 am, May 31st, 2023 - 36 comments

National is blowing hard on the racist dog whistle by claiming that replacing signs with a Te Reo English version will affect the number of potholes that can be repaired.

National’s triple backward summersault on RMA reform

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:40 am, May 30th, 2023 - 26 comments

The focus groups have spoken. National has performed a complete reversal on the bipartisan changes to the Resource Management Act amendments designed to improve housing supply and introduced only 18 months ago.

Superannuation policy becomes political

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:18 am, May 29th, 2023 - 68 comments

National’s promise to increase the age of retirement and likely cuts to Cullen fund contributions and state Kiwisaver payments have been seized on by Labour as evidence that National does not care about ordinary people.

Carmel Sepuloni – bring it on

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 8:05 pm, May 27th, 2023 - 49 comments

Carmel Sepuloni’s speech to the 2023 Labour Party Congress.

The fast and the really furious

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:24 am, May 24th, 2023 - 30 comments

Christopher Luxon had no idea that National has recently used artificially generated images in what appears to be a crude attempt to avoid historical issues National has had with respecting the intellectual property rights of artists.

The real coalition of chaos

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:52 am, May 23rd, 2023 - 22 comments

National has hatched on its attack line which we will hear about a lot over the next few months. But it may have a problem. Because the phrase “coalition of chaos” clearly applies to its leadership team.

Government announces project that will significantly reduce coal consumption

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:47 am, May 22nd, 2023 - 102 comments

The Government has done a deal with the owners of New Zealand Steel that will see the company replace its coal fired furnace with a renewable energy supplied electric arc furnace and will significantly reduce the country’s greenhouse gas emissions.

Green Party list announced

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 11:45 am, May 20th, 2023 - 11 comments

The Green Party has announced its list for the 2023 election.

National thinks tax cut good, reduction in Government charges bad

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:13 am, May 19th, 2023 - 77 comments

National has promised to reverse the removal of prescription charges even though it has a strong policy support and is an example of the state taking less of individuals’ private wealth.

Green Budget Day 2023

Written By: weka - Date published: 11:27 am, May 18th, 2023 - 15 comments

“All of these things were impossible, until they weren’t” – Chloe Swarbrick

Budget day

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:55 am, May 18th, 2023 - 49 comments

Today is Budget Day with the proceedings kicking off at 2 pm.

National's Policy Machine is a thing to behold

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 12:06 pm, May 16th, 2023 - 99 comments

National’s latest policy brainstorm is to print out and mail to every taxpayer information they could obtain by using Google and MyIRD.

Luxon’s days are numbered

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:08 pm, May 14th, 2023 - 70 comments

The latest TV3 Newshub poll results are out. The major parties are neck and neck. No surprise there. But what is stark is the public response to Christopher Luxon. Basically he is tanking.

Countering Conspiracy – the Green Party is not in a Civil War

Written By: Incognito - Date published: 4:20 pm, May 14th, 2023 - 54 comments

Trust in academics is on a downslide, as is trust in general. This is exacerbated by academics hiding a personal-political agenda when they dabble in the public domain.

What Do The Maori Party Want Anyway?

Written By: advantage - Date published: 8:05 am, May 12th, 2023 - 174 comments

Since they’re touted as 2023’s electoral ‘Kingmakers’, it’s time to understand what the Maori Party really want.

Iwi Kiwi 2.0

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 1:53 pm, May 10th, 2023 - 54 comments

In 2005 the National Party went full on racist with attacks on supposed Maori privilege which almost won the party power. Looks like they are going to try this tactic again.