By Mike Bee Voters United grew out of the fact that in the last election minor parties were strongly supported by New Zealand voters but scored no seats because their votes were spread over so many different parties. The Green Party had a similar number of votes to the sum total of the minor parties’ … Read more
by Vince McLeod When I was younger, I had a family member in the trade of supplying medicinal cannabis to people with various conditions, including Huntington’s disease. One day the New Zealand Police caught wind of his operation, so they came to his house, arrested him, and chucked him in a cage with rapists and … Read more
by Mike Bee The Labour Party is “in it for us”. The other side is going to get the country “back on track again”. And, because Winston Peters is the only alternative candidate who has any chance of success, any vote given to one of the minor parties other than his party is “a wasted … Read more
by Vince McLeod Winston Peters created a controversy this week in Nelson when he said that Maori people are not indigenous to New Zealand. The chimpout that followed saw Chris Hipkins, Chris Luxon and David Seymour all team up to criticise Peters. This caused some to ask: why are the left and the right teaming up against the … Read more
by Vince McLeod Find this article on Substack. It’s common to hear demands nowadays for something called “decolonisation”. Apparently colonisation was the worst thing that ever happened to the peoples of the New World, and justice cannot be served until it is reversed. The media, educational and political machinery of the West is fully behind … Read more
Thomas S. It was during the spread of communism throughout Eastern Europe in the early 20th Century that Hungary first fell to the reds. The Hungarian Soviet Republic was established by Bela Kun in the aftermath of the First World War, with support from the Bolsheviks in Moscow. His dictatorship was short-lived however, after an … Read more
by Vince McLeod Find this article on substack. Xu Xiaodong is a Chinese MMA fighter and wind-up merchant who has gained fame for making fools out of bullshit artists. This has made him a target for the ire of the CCP, who have punished him through use of the Chinese social credit system. Xu’s example provides a … Read more
The cost of keeping the lie alive eventually becomes too high and it collapses. Written by Martin Geddes Martin Geddes from England has an exceptional talent for being able to sum up in words what many of us are feeling. Here, in this guest post, he describes an England with which Kiwis can identify … Read more
by Mike Bee Someone once said that any society that burns books will end up burning people. Book-burning is not widely practised today, and the focus of those who censor free speech has shifted to what takes place online. But the saying is nevertheless true, and we can extend it for our time by … Read more
by Vince McLeod A recent Horizon Poll found that combined support for Labournational has now fallen to less than 61%, the lowest ever. Never before have Kiwis had less confidence in the two biggest parties. The electoral ramifications of this fall in support are major. The mathematics of building a ruling coalition are simple, but … Read more
