Author: Martyn Bradbury

Bill English lecturing the world on the comedic value of John Oliver is like him telling the Italians how to make pizza.

Don’t for one second think that was a gaffe by a Health Minister embarrassed by a damning mental health report, because Health Minister’s don’t gaffe. The specific use of those trigger words have already been poll tested and National know that by writing the criticism off as coming from ‘left wing anti-Government protestors’ that their rump electorate will ignore the urgency of what the report has found.

…such a level of support looks like National are importing an electorate. This was always the criticism the Right made of Labour’s support of migration from the Pacific Islands.

…National Party insiders were terrified when they discovered that Lusk and Slater were planning a take over of the National Party using MPs like Mark Mitchell to create a new hard right Government.

It’s lovely watching Labour’s proxies scramble to repair the damage they caused themselves by not talking to their own Maori Caucus about their list appointments even their Chief of Staff is on Twitter trying to tell anyone who would listen that this represents a great step forward for Maori…

It was J Day this weekend. I appeared at 3.30pm to give a speech to the cannabis brothers and sisters and I pointed out that the greatest symbol of just how gutless our political establishment is on cannabis reform can be summed up by the following shocking revelation – the only way we are going to legalise cannabis with a regulated and taxed market is through NZ First.