Since being referred to the Police twice for break­ing a law that he him­self voted for and defended on count­less occa­sions, check out Jim Anderton’s new disclaimer.

Oh yes that’s right Jim, I had almost for­got­ten your arro­gance from the Alliance days. The Elec­toral Com­mis­sion and other author­i­ties (you know, the peo­ple charged with uphold­ing your shitty law) are “con­fused”, and you are right.

My god, what a prick.

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Edi­to­r­ial: Over­due, but tax cuts timely – When an ini­tia­tive is an inor­di­nate time in the mak­ing, there is usu­ally a muted recep­tion. Two cheers, then, for the Labour Party’s long-awaited tax cuts, which take effect today. At very nearly the con­clu­sion of three terms in gov­ern­ment… [NZ Her­ald Pol­i­tics]

Today is the day that Michael Cullen will go off and qui­etly drown him­self. He surely must if is true to his beliefs.

Make no mis­take, Labour doesn’t want you to have tax cuts, Michael Cullen espe­cially doesn’t want you to have tax cuts, and there is no guar­an­tee that if re-elected he won’t renege. He has already done that once.

But how far is your tax cut going to go?

Not far. Power prices look set to increase 12% for many cus­tomers next month. This comes on top of a 48% increase in domes­tic prices over the last five years. Fuel prices alone rose 28 per cent in the year to July.

So you tax­cut will get you a block of cheese, or a quar­ter a tank of gas, but more likely it will get you noth­ing of the sort as the finan­cial cat­a­stro­phe that Michael Cullen said would never hurt New Zealand is set to increase your mort­gage rates or rent.

You can’t trust Michael Cullen with the econ­omy, the only thing you can trust him to do is renege on tax cuts.

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MWT works out what Labour’s sud­den enthu­si­asm for crack­ing down on gangs is all about. Cyn­i­cal pol­i­tics is what…..After nine long years of Hard Labour and with the gov­ern­ment ignor­ing the ref­er­en­dum on tougher sen­tences all of a sud­den we get Phil Goff and Annette “Full moon” King play­ing with the worry beads over gangs.

The two gangs that have coerced and ter­rorised the pub­lic are aptly summed up ny Emmer­son.

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John Arm­strong : Canny lead­ers right to skip TV debate – Much pious-sounding clap­trap has been voiced about Helen Clark and John Key’s pact not to take part in tele­vised lead­ers’ debates with their coun­ter­parts from minor par­ties, most of this self-serving cant com­ing from the minor par­ties… [NZ Her­ald Pol­i­tics]

John Armstrong’s first para­graph is a goodie;

Much pious-sounding clap­trap has been voiced about Helen Clark and John Key’s pact not to take part in tele­vised lead­ers’ debates with their coun­ter­parts from minor par­ties, most of this self-serving cant com­ing from the minor par­ties themselves.

He is exactly right. But the more impor­tant ques­tion is why did Clark lie about the deci­sion? Matthew Hooton, obvi­ously due to his close blog­ging prox­im­ity to Chris “hon­or­able cor­rup­tion” Trot­ter, thinks it is OK for a Prime Min­is­ter to lie. I don’t.

Remem­ber this elec­tion is about trust and Helen Clark lied. She lied on national tele­vi­sion, she lied to the peo­ple of ew Zealand because she didn’t want it known that it was her who organ­ised the Key/Clark only debate at the expense of the minor parties.

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McCain ad that shows where the blame lies for the cur­rent finan­cial cri­sis and in par­tic­u­lar the bailout required by Fan­nie Mae and Fred­die Mac.

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On Sun­day, Mr Peters was told through a spokesman that The Domin­ion Post had infor­ma­tion about a trust run by his brother Wayne and that the trust some­times paid NZ First bills.

“That is a lie,” Mr Peters said.

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Yee­haa! Andy Moore is exhibit­ing some giant sized balls and really stick­ing pins in the Government’s eyes. Check out this Face­book mes­sage from my newsfeed.

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Pro­gres­sives release party list – The Pro­gres­sive Party will stand 27 can­di­dates at this year’s elec­tion. Leader Jim Ander­ton who holds the safe seat of Wigram is in the top spot, while for­mer MP Matt Rob­son is sec­ond. The Pro­gres­sives reg­is­tered 1.16 per cent… [NZ Her­ald Pol­i­tics]

I sim­ple fail to under­stand why this bunch of un-reconstituted com­mies even bother to have a list longer than one name, but 27!!!!

Hardly news­wor­thy unless for the ridicule factor.

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Eric Roy is a com­plete numpty but in doing a silly stunt about mak­ing his cam­paign car­bon neu­tral he has outed a Green can­di­date as an even big­ger fool.

Invercargill’s Green Party can­di­date Craig Car­son applauded Mr Roy’s attempt to go car­bon neutral.

“I think it’s great that he’s doing it. How well it works or not I’m not sure.” Mr Car­son said that because he worked full­time and had lim­ited resources, he was not able to fol­low suit.

Ok so lets get this straight…..So being green is for the unem­ployed and rich accord­ing to the Green Party?

Does that mean that every employed per­son is exempt?

Fan­tas­tic news, glad that’s all been cleared up then.

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Helen Clark has been caught lying again. In this elec­tion that she has decided will be fought on trust she fair and square lied to us all in declar­ing that the deci­sion for a Key/Clark debate was made at “chief of staff” level.

Now TV3 has come out and told us whose idea it really was. It was Clark’s.

The woman sim­ply can’t be trusted to lie straight in bed. She not only sup­ports a patho­log­i­cal liar in Win­ston Ray­mond Peters, 63, List MP of no fixed abode but her nar­cis­sism is show­ing all of its ugly side.

She tried to lay the blame on her Chief of Staff, Heather Simp­son, for a deci­sion  which was always hers.

Helenm Clark is a two bit liar and can not be trusted. The men­dac­ity of the woman know no bounds.

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The Her­ald has con­tin­ued its series of face to face polls and has some quotes that should make the polit­i­cally cor­rect Helenists quake in their col­lec­tivist boots.

“The cur­rent Gov­ern­ment is too con­cerned with being polit­i­cally correct,”

“It is too afraid to step up and make a real dif­fer­ence that offends people.

“I feel National will be able to do things, even if it does offend peo­ple. For exam­ple, at the moment [Labour] is pretty much tax­ing every­thing that decent rich peo­ple have and giv­ing it all to poor people.”

Luke, James and class­mates Hri­day Shah, Julia Simons and Karl Wilshier all say edu­ca­tion is being “dumbed down” under the National Cer­tifi­cate of Edu­ca­tional Achievement.

Oh dear, labour los­ing the yoof….about the only sec­tor sup­port­ing Labour now are the queers.

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Plan to pro­hibit gang insignia now cov­ers ‘intim­i­dat­ing’ tat­toos – The pro­posed ban on gang patches in Wan­ganui is a step closer. The ban will also cover gang-related tat­toos. Mark­ings such as moko will still be allowed in the city’s pub­lic places. Parliament’s law and order select com­mit­tee… [NZ Her­ald Pol­i­tics]

This is just dumb and will never work in a month of Sundays.

I am not even going to get into a silly “free­dom of expres­sion” argu­ment. The rea­son­ing is just plain stu­pid to include tattoos.

Look the Mon­grel Mob could all have smi­ley faces tattoo’d on their faces and knuck­les and it would till be intim­i­dat­ing. It isn’t the tat­too that intim­i­dated it is the thug under the tough sticker that does it.

This law has the poten­tial to be used by almost any­one to shut down any­thing. The Chris­t­ian Ladies Knit­ting club could object to tat­tos of demons as being intim­i­dat­ing, the local Wic­can Women’s Guild could be intim­i­dated by tat­toos of cru­ci­fixes or the Vir­gin Mary.

It is just bloody ludicrous.

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Lat­est polls roundup has party gap grow­ing wider – Through all the ups and downs this year, National has main­tained its big lead over Labour and there is no sign yet of the nar­row­ing Labour hopes for in the cam­paign. If any­thing, the move­ment early in the cam­paign is the other way. This… [NZ Her­ald Pol­i­tics]

Tick, tock, tick tock, time is run­ning out for Helen Clark and as the Her­ald poll of polls show the gap is widen­ing not clos­ing, yet another meme of the left going down the gurgler.

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Extra dona­tion in Peters’ amended dec­la­ra­tions – New Zealand First leader Win­ston Peters has sub­mit­ted amended returns to the MPs’ Reg­is­ter of Pecu­niary Inter­ests as required by Parliament’s priv­i­leges com­mit­tee – and included another dona­tion from the Spencer Trust. The returns… [NZ Her­ald Pol­i­tics]

The cor­rup­tion of Win­ston Ray­mond Peters, 63, List MP of no fixed abode and proven liar con­tin­ues today as we find out that in his return of pecu­niary inter­ests he has “dis­cov­ered” yet another “dona­tion” from the Spencer Trust. If you believe that Roger McClay as trustee never told Win­ston of the “dona­tion” then Helen Clark has got a poll she’d like to show you.

Even bet­ter though Win­ston First has now filed their amended returns with the Elec­toral Com­mis­sion. This restarts the clock on those and now the Elec­toral Com­mis­sion can pros­e­cute their asses. Nice cun­ning ploy on their behalf.

The lat­est post on Frank’s…..oops Winston’s bog (the typo is delib­er­ate) is a good laugh as well. Frank…..oh silly me, Win­ston reck­ons that he wasn’t jus­dged by a jury of his peers at all. In that he is right, Win­ston is a proven liar and they aren’t, but Frank…damn…Winston goes to say;

At the end of the day, what the com­mit­tee found was that I didn’t fill in a piece of paper cor­rectly. There was no fraud. I did not per­son­ally ben­e­fit from doing so. Not one cent.

But its time to move on from that debate.

Rii­i­ight, looks like Helen Clark is writ­ing the lines for Frank…bugger…Winston. How this proven liar can think that when some­one pays your bills so you don’t have to dip into your own pocket isn’t a ben­e­fit is beyond me, then again he prob­a­bly has a poll he can show Helen Clark.

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Not Astute reck­ons Helen Clark got a free ride out of TV3, I don’t know what video was being watched, per­haps some­thing got all munted on the inter­web but this is what I saw and heard and the mes­sage was pretty clear;

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