Can a Progressive sell Conservatism?

Rachel MacGregor worked at the far left propaganda organisation TVNZ for seven years as a Reporter and Producer for News and Current Affairs Programmes. Her Twitter feed is dominated by comments that firmly identify her as a Progressive. What the hell was this common and garden type Progressive who can’t even spell doing working in…

A question for John Stringer

I have never met John Stringer but I’ve been an avid follower of his blog and I have always seen his contributions to the political argument as having value. Seeing him on TV recently I have been impressed by his articulation and his sincerity. However I have to question his judgment and the judgment of…

Conservative Party infighting- is it real?

The Whaleoil blog is one of Colin Craig’s most vociferous enemies. Cameron Slater’s unceasing campaign against Craig seems to be personal in nature, and makes me wonder if there is not some past event, some affront to Slater’s ego, that is behind the vendetta. Did Craig reject Slater or perhaps one of his friends in…

Hooton- Slow week for news so I'll just bash Colin Craig

Matthew Hooton likes to think of himself as a right winger and I suppose considering the narrowness of the NZ political spectrum he’s reasonably correct. In the US he’d probably attract the label of Liberal. Like Cameron Slater, who also refers to himself frequently as right wing, Hooton is really a social progressive, with a…

NZ’s Anti-democratic Mainstream Media

Not all of the media are pain in the arse liberals/ progressives, but those that are not are conspicuous by their rarity. Does this matter? It does in the political sense, for NZ will never have a truly pluralistic democracy while a force as powerful as the mainstream media strives to almost completely control NZ’s…

The Rot at the Core of National

The Conservative Party is beginning to shake up the NZ political scene. Even with the massive force of the Lab/Nat revolving door coalition against it, it is gaining traction among NZers fed up with the country’s slow subsidence into the progressive swamp. With NZ’s monolithic and totalitarian political and cultural structure driven mostly by inner…

Is John Key the Worst PM National Have Ever Produced?

When he was elected I thought John Key would grasp the opportunity to communicate a set of different political ideas to the voters. He hasn’t. In fact he’s done worse. He’s dragged us backwards. He’s allowed the country to be enshrouded even more in the long grey cloud of Progressivism. He’s played a political hand…