What the leaked UMR Poll says about the election
So now we know why Labour are hell bent in ensuring the election goes ahead in September…
New Zealand Politics
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Waatea News Column: May Day 2020 – who will celebrate the workers?
It’s May Day, the international day of celebration for the worker, but what do workers have to celebrate during Pandemic 2020?
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The List Candidate: Winston Peters and the Looming Covid-19 Depression.
WHY IS IT, that of all the party leaders only Winston Peters fully understands the economic ramifications of the Covid-19 Pandemic? Perhaps it’s his age. That might sound snarky, but it isn’t. None of the other party leaders are old enough to possess a solid mental picture of what New Zealand was like before the Neoliberal Revolution of 1984-1993.
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Winston gasps for news oxygen and the Greens promise something something
Clearly NZ First and the Greens intend to bore the virus out of NZ.
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6.40pm tonight on Radio Hauraki – The respectful wrapping of the week in politics
This week: John Key back to leg up the Nats, is Labour milking Covid and what does David Clark need to do to get sacked?
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MEDIA WATCH: Tova O’Brien’s latest smear on David Clark & the double standards of the NZ media (while also defending their journalism)
I’m not trying to be cute, smart, tribal or purposely trolly
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Next election fought on the economy, not identity politics – why that will hurt the Left
Bryce Edwards will have enraged the Wellington Twitteratti with his latest column in the Guardian arguing that identity politics won’t be the lens through which the NZ election will be fought…
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Let’s be brutally honest about the success of preventing the pandemic gaining a foothold in NZ (you won’t like it)
There are two reasons why NZ has successfully dodged the public health nightmare we are seeing erupt in America and Europe, and you won’t like them.
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TWITTER WATCH: Bishop Brian and the odd satanic art inside Parliament
I’d like Parliamentary services to get back to us all so we know where these art works are kept.