Chris Finlayson Declares War On NZ First
Chris Finlayson’s call for “war” on NZ First says something brutal about National right now: one of the few people still willing to fight no longer sits in caucus.

Chris Finlayson’s call for “war” on NZ First says something brutal about National right now: one of the few people still willing to fight no longer sits in caucus.

Winston smells blood. Luxon looks weaker by the day. And as the economy slides deeper into crisis, the coalition’s civil war is becoming impossible to hide.

Winston Peters is tearing chunks out of National while Luxon looks too weak to stop him. The question now is whether this coalition crisis is entirely deliberate.

Winston Peters hasn’t blown up Luxon over Iran out of principle. He is manufacturing a crisis, gutting National, and making his move.
Luxon’s Tehran comment looked like another clumsy brain fade. Now the Iran war emails make it look far more deliberate, and far more dangerous.

Luxon wanted New Zealand to back the Iran war. Winston exposed it. Now the coalition looks like it’s tearing itself apart.

If the Government had leverage over TVNZ’s political editor for a year, this isn’t a scandal; it’s a warning. And now the timing raises even bigger questions.

A Super El Niño is coming, and it could smash through New Zealand’s climate denial, insurance system and political complacency all at once.

Nicola Willis thinks Labour has secret taxes. God, if only. NZ doesn’t need tax panic, it needs the rich to finally pay up.

Was it journalism, or just another bad faith political hit job? Heather du Plessis-Allan’s latest take has Martyn calling bullshit.