I made the mistake of listening to John Key interviewed on Wellington Radio today. The host, one silly little kiss arse lightweight by the name of Tim Fookes, was so ineffectual it was embarrassing. No wonder the left complain about Key getting a soft ride in the media if this is any kind of typical…
I’ve never liked Mike Hosking as a broadcaster. To me, he has always been a stark example of what is wrong with today’s mainstream media, with his shallow approach and thin veneer of pretend knowledge that only allows the most primitive level of discussion on matters that are actually far more complex than…
The flag change project is John Key’s baby. Against so much advice to the contrary, he stubbornly continued to push it, and he allocated $28 million of taxpayer’s money to advance what is in essence his own pet project. If the country rejects this project, by refusing to participate and by voting against change, that…
As I watched the original version of this video, its patronising tone, its deceit, and the complete and utter bias angered me considerably. So I chopped it up and put my own comments in there to balance John Key’s obsequious selling of his marketing logo flag designs. I find it astonishing that the office of…
Here’s the winning design in the new NZ flag competition and here’s what the NZ Herald has to say about it- A Kiwi design student has managed to win a New Zealand flag design competition dominated by overseas entries. Freelancer, a design website, weighed in on the country’s flag debate, but some were quick to…
Bill English put out a press release yesterday on John Key’s flag change project. I think they might be feeling the heat after they launched their braindead patronising “What do you stand for?” webpage. When I looked it was about 80% very anti. In the release, which is one of the worst I have ever…
Here is the Cabinet minute beginning the process of two referenda to consider changing NZ’s flag. Note Minute 1.4 (highlighted) which clearly shows “there must be no presumption in favour of change”. Yet all around the country this stipulation is being violated by government agencies and the people who work for them, on the latest…
The first hearing was held today on NZ’s flag change and as expected, the sentiment was firmly against with only one submission for and seven firmly against. The one pro speaker advanced the odious proposition that children should be permitted to vote in the referendum, so desperate are these oily bastards to get their way.…
Good on Winston Peters for taking such a firm stand against John Key’s vain and wasteful ambition to change our flag. Yesterday Peters wrote a stirring editorial in the Otago Daily Times. I’ve reprinted the entire article below but if you prefer to read it in the Otago Daily Times, its here. “Two days before…
Radio NZ reports- A Northland Maori elder and army veteran says the Prime Minister has no mandate to change the flag so many people fought and died under. 81-year-old Jim Te Tuhi, whose father fought in the First World War, referred to John Key as “that pony-tail puller” in an Anzac Day speech he made…
I’ve campaigned strongly on the flag issue, on this blog and on Twitter. Not only do I not want it changed, but I’m very annoyed at John Key’s plan to spend $28 million on promoting the idea. Especially when the oleaginous bureaucrats who wrote the charter for this exercise in Key self promotion specified that…
Bill English issued a press release today relating to the flag change referenda. Among the gobblygook trying to justify this farce is a highly contrived Question and Answer session. Here’s one of the questions where Bill’s answer seemed to me to be exceptionally senseless Question- What is the benefit of a two-stage referendum process? Answer-…
John Key’s vain obsession with his political legacy has lead the Nationals to an alliance with the Watermelons and the racists, who of course want a flag change because they want a Maori flag. The first reading of the New Zealand Flag Referendums Bill was passed last night 76-43. The debate was largely confined to…
I was pleased to see the govt being asked a couple of questions on John Key’s flag change campaign yesterday in parliament. Tracey Martin, Deputy leader of NZ First asked Bill English if he considered “the flag referendum to be a judicious use of taxpayers’ money?” Hon BILL ENGLISH (Deputy Prime Minister): Yes. Tracey Martin…
The Returned Services Association says it is preparing a strategy to fight to keep the current New Zealand flag. The association has criticised the cost of the exercise and questioned the need to hold two referenda. It has also suggested the appointment of a flag change committee so close to the Anzac centenary was ill…
The chair of the panel assigned to consider a new flag design, University of Canterbury Emeritus Professor John Burrows, said its first job would be public engagement. “We’re going to have to use the media a lot of course, there will certainly be meetings where panel members will talk to members of the public. And…
The prevailing political mood of the “flag change panel” is as you would expect progressive. Julie Christie, Beatrice Faumina, Rod Drury, and a couple of the mandatory drop kicks from left wing academia. Maybe two Conservatives in Rhys Jones and Brian Lochore. However seeing they all agreed to sit on the committee, then one must…
What on earth is going on at the National Party? Surely most MPs know that they have a duty to at least listen to, consider and react in as positive a way as possible to the views of the people who voted for them. Why then are they all marching in lock step on the…
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