Posts Tagged as ‘New Zealand Politics’

March 11, 2008

there’s a policy brewing in there somewhere.

The only problem is where and when.
Typical of their high poll rolling days, National is yet to announce the majority of the policies that will take them into the election. Which of course is a funny thing for the voter who wants to know what Key and the National party are all about.
We know [...]

March 9, 2008

Free speech is dying… argh – dramatic stagger… argh.

Well the fight to keep free speech is dying according to Psycho Milt.
There was a rally in Auckland today in which a couple of hundred concerned citizens turned up to er -um exercise their free speech. From what I can tell there weren’t any storm troopers in vans whisking people off to unknown places [...]

March 6, 2008

Vote for whoever you want, just be informed…

A non party response to dontvotelabour.org.nz.
As left as I am, I will never tell anyone how they can vote, this is not mine nore anyone’s right. I would encourage anyone and everyone to get out and vote, this is our democratic right, and despite what nostalgists like Garth George think, MMP is a good [...]

March 2, 2008

another day another poll…

I’ve been moaning about these when Labour had 10pt leads over National and I’ll keep repeating them when National has a 10pt lead over Labour, what in the world is conceivably even slightly interesting or useful with yet another poll out today.
Why do we have so many polls, except to keep;
a) people employed at the [...]