Waiting for Winston
NZ is waiting to get a new government. Winston Peters, stalwart politician since 1979, is influencing the outcome and I’m having to like him more than I thought I did.
Tag: election
To Know or Not to Know
What does one need to know? World news? Election results? The names of flowers? Or just the number of kilometres to your destination?
Politics & Promises
The general election is coming, like Christmas but even less fun than hearing Snoopy’s Christmas every day for two months. The hoardings are up. So how do they look?
Power of the People
New Zealand is a country where you can change the course of an election by asking someone a question …
Elections & Fantasy Literature
Reading fiction and reading election promises – they’re pretty much the same. Except fiction is generally based in reality. All the parties in the NZ election want to spend more but where is the more going to come from?
Conspiracies in the corners
Could the government be dragging its feet on a trans-Tasman bubble because the surest way to lose the upcoming election would be a major COVID outbreak? And it’s dragging its feet by not paying attention to the slack state of quarantine procedures? Next I’ll be seeing communists in the cupboards!