Simon Bridges was unpopular with the left, so in an example of either craven cowardice, or rank stupidity, the National Party did as the left wanted them to do so badly, and removed him as leader. Why did the left hate Simon Bridges? Because he was a fighter, and prepared to take it to the…
(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…
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 Green Socialist National Party once had a fine set of founding principles. “To promote good citizenship and self-reliance; to combat communism and socialism; to maintain freedom of contract; to encourage private enterprise; to safeguard individual rights and the privilege of ownership; to oppose interference by the State in business, and State control of industry”.…
The 2010 Yale and Columbia University Environmental Performance Index ranked New Zealand second only to Iceland for world water quality. Today, the National Party released proposals relating to new clean water regulations, after the Greens organised a petition to clean up rivers and farm waterways. Always dancing to the tune of the Green Left media, and…
Former Prime Minister Muldoon would be spinning in his grave if he could witness today’s atrocity, the NZ Human Rights Commission that his govt gave birth to in 1977. It currently operates under legislation called the “Human Rights Act 1993”, an inspiration of the Bolger National party. This act, now incorporating the nonsense of the…
Unprecedented sales activity in March has seen Auckland’s residential housing market establish new records for prices and sales numbers. The average house price is even more expensive than in Sydney, with the gap widening as a stronger Kiwi dollar heads towards parity. The Australian Business Insider reports– Barfoot & Thompson, the largest agent in the…
Impressed to read David Farrar’s post the other day stating the “State should not own commercial companies” It made me think for a second what the difference might be between a “commercial” company and any other company, but I couldn’t come up with an answer. He went on to say- I don’t want my taxes…
I’m not impressed by the priority given to polling recently. Polling is not a positive in the political battle. Its merely a measure of what ideas the voters have digested. If they’re only getting ideas from one side of the political spectrum, then naturally polls will show these ideas as having the edge over other…
A few days ago a group of hard core Communist activists staged a Bolshevik style demonstration against John Key. The protest was so threatening and hate filled police were called and the PM was forced to exit through a side door. (He shouldn’t have. This is the kind of capitulation John Key is too fond…
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