The Covid19 crisis has in many cases brought bad polling figures for all opposition parties across the globe, as incumbent political leaders make the most of their chance to get their faces in front of the public. Take Australia & New Zealand for example. Scott Morrison’s Liberal Party has received a big boost. Anthony Albenesi’s…
Polling to be released today or tomorrow is predicted to be bad news for the National Party and its leader Simon Bridges. Labour can be as joyful as they wish. The reality is that today’s poll doesn’t matter. Its the one held on election day that matters, and if Jacinda Ardern & Labour are still…
Otago Medical school took in 202 students this year. 120 places went to “special” categories for students whose backgrounds are rural, Pacific, Māori, low socioeconomic, or refugee. To be included in the remaining 82 non special places, students had to attain an exam score of 94%. The score for the special categories is not available…
There’s a question mark at the end of the title, because it just cannot be true that showing “hostility” is now regarded as a serious crime by NZ Police. They’ve stated so on their Facebook page, but that doesn’t mean its law. Here’s the text- New Zealand Police, and people in New Zealand, do not…
As truth is always the first casualty of war, so is education the first casualty of socialism. NZ kids started to fail at maths 40 years ago, and now these kids have joined National or Labour, NZ’s two main socialist political parties, and in the worst of two not very pleasant outcomes for the country,…
It took twenty eight years to pull down the Berlin wall. The sclerotic secular progressive condition of New Zealand politics has stayed in place a lot longer. The wall was built over night, trapping East Berliners fast in the mire of Soviet Communism. For those unfamiliar with its history, it was built in 1961 to…
There’s a new guy on the NZ political scene. David Moffett has joined the board of the re-invigorated Conservative Party (now the New Conservatives) and its a move that already has the progressive propagandists who pose as NZ’s mainstream media furiously biting their nails. Mr. Moffett has an extraordinary record of real success in the…
It is a sad fact, but it has to be acknowledged. The NZ Labour Party actually outplayed the National Party when it surprisingly won last year’s election. They were smarter. More devious. More adept at political maneuvering. The Nats were naive, frightened, and devoid of a message. I wrote some weeks before the election accurately…
It’s Winston’s fault. No wait, it’s John Key’s fault. No, no no, Bill English is to blame. Wrong again, it was the media..!! No, it was MMP..! The recriminations have only just started, but of course the one place the voters of New Zealand will not point their finger is where it should be pointed,…
You have to laugh. Can you imagine the conversations going on in the halls of what passes for political power in New Zealand? They all hate each other, and here they are faced with an unknown number of completely unpalatable compromises to try and form a government. My own view is that its hopeless, and…
(Note for recent readers- this post was written more than three weeks before the actual election) The most frequent emotion when thinking of the National Party is pity and or exasperation. Good people, but politically, they’re straws in the wind. They once carried the torch for small govt, low taxes and personal responsibility, but these…
It’s never really been about what the left are in Western society today, its about what they are capable of becoming. Leftists who might read this and turn away should rather read on, because the reality is those who believe in the soft tyranny they impose today are going to be victimised exactly the same…
Are you opposed to mass immigration, and sick of being labelled a racist by the fact impoverished elite whose opinions are given prominence in the fake MSM these days? Overwhelming logical and rational arguments exist to support your view, but your opponents only have one response, and that is to smear you with the pejorative…
OK, so Auckland is a bogged down disaster. That’s plain and simple. What’s harder to understand is the inability of governments to understand why it is bogged down, and how to fix the problem. The Auckland Council is reported to have 400 planners on its staff. If this is so, then they should all have to…
The main reason people give for voting National is to keep Labour, who they see as so much worse, out of power. This reasoning doesn’t work anymore. Two recent actions by National emphasize why this is so. 1) Changes to the Resource Management Act that promote separatism. 2) The Harmful Digital Communications Act being used…
The NZ National party lost the battle of ideas decades ago. Its political strategy today is mostly a series of slow steady surrenders, one after the other after the other, to progressive ideology. Currently, the Nationals are all a tizz over the prospect of current Labour party leader Andrew Little losing his defamation case, being…
Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s pending visit to Australia and New Zealand has been cancelled. The reported reason is Ayaan is concerned for her safety. Ms Ali was due to speak in Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland from Thursday to Sunday this week. The event was organised by Think Inc., a Sydney-based organisation that attempts to provoke…
A number of “broadcasting”lobby groups have been established lately whose aim is to take money from your pocket and put it in their pocket. Most recently there is “The People’s Commission on Better Broadcasting“, (a name surely reminiscent of Soviet Russia). There is also “The Coalition for Better Broadcasting“, and “Action Station“. These three organisations are…
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