Can This Snail Be Saved?

United Future leader Peter Dunne has unexpectedly been appointed the Associate Conservation Minister. The announcement came today after the National and United Future parties signed a confidence and supply agreement. Dunne says he is looking forward to the new challenge presented by the Conservation role, and cites preservation of the endangered Giant Grey Snail as…

Reforming Labour

Hard-hitting left-wing columnist and Chairman of the Workers Solidarity Party of Aotearoa, Bob Mittsky, returns with a new post on the plight of Labour. Most of you who follow my work will be aware that I campaigned actively for the Mana Party during the election campaign. Sadly, I came to the realisation that the party…

My Advice To ACT

Ditch John Banks He will just destroy what remains of your party. This will be a hard call, but it is the right thing to do. Banks is a moral conservative with authoritarian impulses. He is now contemplating talking to the Conservatives, although to his credit Colin Craig wants to go nowhere near the festering…

So What Have We Learned Since Saturday?

John Key says the election has delivered him a mandate for asset sales, even though National got less than half the vote. On that argument Labour also has a mandate for raising the retirement age and for a capital gains tax. People who didn’t vote for the party I voted for are stupid. Just stupid.…