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Holyoake’s 80%

David Farrar raised an interesting historical fact on Kiwiblog: Even Keith Holyoake once said he only agreed with about 80% of what his Government did. I often think of 80%. If you are in agreement...

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John Banks: leave alcohol purchase age at 18?

The Alcohol Reform Bill will be back in parliament this month. One of the main proposals is to raise the alcohol purchase age at off-licence retailers such as liquor stores, dairies and supermarkets....

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John Banks bad, Labour and media worse?

Pressure continues on John Key to do something about John Banks regarding his mayoral campaign donations from Kim Dotcom. Banks didn’t deal very well with donation law that doesn’t deal very well with...

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Banks should resign himself to back bench

John Banks shouldn’t force a decision on his future on John Key. It’s been Bank’s laxity on campaign donations, it’s been Banks who has not been upfront and honest with his responses, it is his ethical...

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Rating the parties for 2012

This is my view of how the parties have performed over the first term, based on an outsider’s media and online impressions as an interested follower of politics, plus some interaction with some MPs via...

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Dunne on parties and Christmas

Peter Dunne has been tweeting his thoughts on how the political parties might view Christmas. Greens… …want Santa’s sleigh run banned – inadequate effluent collection systems in place for reindeer and...

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State of the parties

Coming in to the middle year of the term I thought it was worth looking at the state of the parties. Two are in strong positions, they rest have significant problems to address. National Not without...

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Poll, and National’s strength and weakness

The first Colmar/TVNZ poll of the year: National 49.0% (+5.0%) Labour 33.0% (-2.0%) Green 11.0% (-1.0%) ACT 0.0% (-1.0%) Maori 1.0% (nc) United Future 0.0% (nc) Mana 1.0% (nc) NZ First 4.0% (nc)...

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Act I, John Banks

I was invited to be an observer at the ACT Scenic South Regional Conference held in Dunedin on Saturday. It was interesting to hear the two John Bs in person, Banks and Boscawen. I’ve seen John Banks...

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Act II, John Boscawen

After being an observer at the ACT Scenic South Regional Conference I’ve posted my impressions of one of the John Bs – see Act I, John Banks. The other ACT John B is party president John Boscawen. He...

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Accusations and blog rivalries

Despite my absence attacks continue at The Standard, as they ironically call the Kiwiblog kettle black. It’s almost a year since I have commented at The Standard. I was permanently banned from there...

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Helen Clark supporting the GCSB amendments

Helen Clark was interviewed on Q+A this morning and was asked about the GCSB. She confirmed that she saw GCSB security as essential. She acknowledged that the Kitteridge report had identified a hole in...

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Can Hide save Act?

Now it’s official that John Banks won’t stand again next year Act can be open about seeking someone capable of winning Epsom and rebuilding Act in Parliament. Inevitably Rodney Hide is one of the first...

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Party prospects for 2014

National will try to keep what they push through Parliament as uncontroversial as possible and be promoting the improving economic outlook as much as possible. They will sell Genesis shares and then...

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Centre/right party preferences

After John Key’s heads up for possible coalition partners Dave ‏@caffeine_addict has detailed all the party preferences. John Key: “Yep!” to Peter Dunne and ACT, “Yes” to Maori Party, “Yeah OK”, to...

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John Boscawen corrects media comments

There has been a mixed reaction to Act’s decision to… …announce that the person who will stand as the ACT candidate for Epsom is David Seymour and the new leader of the ACT Party will be Dr. Jamie...

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Act take a big risk

Act have taken a big risk in their selection of Jamie Whyte as Act leader and David Seymour as their candidate for the pivotal Epsom seat. They have left out experienced politician and campaigner and...

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Fairfax exclude small parties from poll results

Fairfax released their latest IPSOS poll on Saturday. How did the small parties fare? It’s been difficult to find out. If you go to Stuff’s See the latest Fairfax-Ipsos poll you’ll find detailed...

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Polls and election prospects

A number of recent polls have given pointers to where the parties stand with less than two months to go until the election. National National have been polling in the high forties through to mid...

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Poll hits dirt, rewards clean

There can be many reasons for poll movements but whether by coincidence or not the parties most associated by dirty smear politics have all dropped in the latest NZ Herald poll, and parties not...

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