Who is surprised that the Minister of Finance Bill English admitted over the weekend that his Government is comfortable with high unemploy...
JUNK MAIL
John Key sent me some mail on Monday. It came in the form of a full colour four page pamphlet which attempts to justify the sacking of the ...
LABOR PAYS THE PRICE FOR ITS RIGHT WING POLICIES
If you believed what the media has had to say, the Australian Labor Party crashed at the General Election because there was a backlash again...
ANOTHER COSY APPOINTMENT FOR SHERIFF
Councillor Gail 'Sandcastle' Sheriff has not been entirely pushed off the gravy train she has been happily riding for the last sev...
LET THEM EAT CHICKEN, LEEK AND POTATO SOUP!
Even with the help of TVNZ, the Government's publicity arm, Paula Bennett's desperate attempts to portray herself as a 'friend&...
THE FAILURE OF BARACK OBAMA
Barack Obama, the great liberal hope, is losing support among the American people and deservedly so. The man who claimed to be an agent of...
JOHN KEY GOES INTO BAT FOR BOB
John Key is in town tonight in a bid to bolster the unpopular Bob's re-election campaign. He is the guest speaker at a fundraising event...
SHERIFF SPITS THE DUMMY
Gail Sheriff has had things her own way for a long time so it came as somewhat of a shock for the holiday-loving councillor that people wo...
LOADSAMONEY!
Councillor Gail Sheriff doesn't seem particularly keen to talk about her 'sandcastle study tour' to sunny San Diego. The affair ...
THE WELFARE STATE IS UNDER ATTACK AND IT'S TIME TO FIGHTBACK
Under the smokescreen of 'reform' the Government is set to launch a major attack on what remains of the social democratic consensus...
BOB APPROVED SHERIFF'S JUNKET!
Here's an easy question. Guess who's paying for Councillor Gail Sheriff's junket to California to study sandcastles? Yes, it'...
THE 'ECONOMIC RECOVERY' HAS BEEN 'TEMPORARILY' POSTPONED..
The usual cheerleaders for the free market and neoliberalism have been slightly disturbed by the sharp rise in the official unemployment r...
MONEY-GO-ROUND
Councillor Bob Shearing is another one of Sideshow Bob's supporters happily double dipping at the expense of the good people of Christc...
SAYING NO TO JULIA AND TONY
The collapse of the social democratic project, the Keynesian mixed economy if you like, has not led to the birth of a new left wing movement...
HATING GOOGLE...
This post is kind of off-message but do you hate Google's new image search as much as I do? Most of the time I use Google to find photos...
SANDCASTLE JUNKET
Officials from Christchurch, New Zealand, have announced they will be sending City Councilor Gail Sheriff to Imperial Beach, this summer in ...
ANOTHER DISMAL APOLOGY FROM TVNZ
Because TV1's dire Breakfast is not exactly 'compulsory' viewing, I completely forgot to see if an reluctant TVNZ had finally b...