Budget surplus – what budget surplus?
The claim we have a surplus when there is so much social deficit is a game of smoke and mirrors played by the National Government. The question is are New Zealanders smart enough to see through this illusion?
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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100 days of Trump and the Left still have no idea why he won
I’ve read a lot of ‘100 days of Trump’ stuff and it seems to me that the Left are still unable to admit and accept why Trump won. This matters because if the Left still can’t comprehend how Trump won, then they have little chance of beating this orange deranged revenge fantasist in 4 years time.
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Trump fires FBI Director and Grand Jury Subpoenas have just been issued
This is a fight between two monsters we should all universally despise. There can be no cheering here, just fear and terror at where these monsters are taking us.
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Bill English lecturing John Oliver on comedy and why National being sued by Eminem is very very very funny
Bill English lecturing the world on the comedic value of John Oliver is like him telling the Italians how to make pizza.
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Why Jonathan Coleman called the “People’s Mental Health Report” advocates ‘Left-wing, anti-Government protesters’
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.
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Chinese vote overwhelmingly supports National
…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.
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Having a mercenary for a Defence Minister – why we should all be frightened by Mark Mitchell
…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.
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Labour scrambling to repair Party List home goal
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…
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Why NZ First is the only route to legalising Cannabis and why we will need to start a citizens initiated referendum to get real change
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.
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Five examples of how National manipulate stats – the horror of Tauranga WINZ
I believe that the National Government are so ideologically driven that they will lie, manipulate and actively falsify any statistic to hide the failure of their social experiments. Here are 5 examples of the National Government manipulating statistics to hide their failure.