Trotter Says Vote National
In his IFR column yesterday hard core leftie Chris Trotter said: New Zealand should probably hope for a National victory, too. So does this mean Chris has seen the light and repented? Well, not quite....
View ArticleThe Parliamentary Purposes Exemption
I love it when I am proved right. When I saw the new exemption (from party spending caps) for parliamentary purposes clause in the Electoral Finance Bill last year, I concluded and blogged that Labour...
View ArticleFurther analysis of Williams on Agenda
The scandal over Williams lies re the Labour Party Congress have been the main focus of the last 24 hours. But there are plenty of other statements which are worth looking at. From the transcript:...
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Labour’s new pledge card
No Minister has a copy of the 2008 Labour Pledge Card, taken from Hitting Metal With A Hammer. Tags: Humour, Labour, No Minister, pledge card
View ArticleIt’s legal because they changed the law
There has finally been some attention paid by the media to Labour’s “information kit for the over 60s” which their MPs are posting and handing out in the tens of thousands. Matthew Hooton has blogged...
View ArticleToad on why the centre-left lost power
Toad from the Greens has an insightful piece as to why the centre-left lost power: The Taito Phillip Field Affair Allegations of misconduct against Field had been simmering since just before the 2005...
View ArticleHe doesn’t get the difference
No Right Turn says: Back in 2006, the (then-Labour) government passed the Appropriation (Parliamentary Expenditure Validation) Bill, which retrospectively validated Parliamentary Services expenditure...
View ArticleAn end to taxpayer funded pledge cards
Over at NBR (subscriber section) I blog: Documents released under the Official Information Act this week reveal that both the Cabinet and the Parliamentary Service Commission have approved a law change...
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