The new Cabinet has been announced: John KeyPrime MinisterMinister of TourismMinisterial ServicesMinister in Charge of the NZ Security Intelligence ServiceMinister Responsible for the GCSB Bill EnglishDeputy Prime MinisterMinister of FinanceMinister for Infrastructure Gerry BrownleeLeader of the HouseMinister for Economic DevelopmentMinister of Energy and ResourcesAssociate Minister for the Rugby World Cup Simon PowerDeputy Leader of the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Elections'
And the Maori Party gets…
November 16th, 2008 No Comments
National and the Maori Party’s confidence and supply agreement is out. Two Maori Party MP’s get portfolios outside Cabinet:Dr Sharples gets Maori Affairs Minister, Associate Education Minister and Associate Corrections Minister.Tariana Turia gets Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector, Associate Health Minister and Associate Social Development Minister. Policy Concessions Include: National offered a review [...]
Tags: Elections · Maori Party · National Party · NZ Government
The Deal is Signed: New Zealand Has a New Government
November 16th, 2008 4 Comments
The hoardings have barely had time to gather dust and National have just announced they have stitched up a deal with ACT, United Future and the Maori Party. Surely this is the fastest confidence and supply stitch up in the history of NZ MMP. National and ACT’s confidence and supply agreement is available here online. [...]
Tags: Elections
Just How Far Will the Left go?
November 11th, 2008 1 Comment
We all know the left will stop at nothing to win in politics; see what they did to Stephen Franks in Wellington Central – systematic election hoarding defacement, abuse on his blog (too numerous to link to any one example), You Tube videos twisting out of context comments into scary hate filled messages against Christians [...]
Tags: Elections · Liberty Scott · Statist Mindset
The Impact of the Special Votes
November 9th, 2008 4 Comments
I sat down to work out how the special votes, which are yet to be counted, might impact the seats with the St Lague formula and saw David Farrar had already done it so I am going to be lazy and steal his post – I am tired, went to bed around 2am got up [...]
The Voting is Over
November 8th, 2008 4 Comments
Curiablog‘s final results: National 59 (46.8%)Labour 44 (34.6%)Green 10 (8.1%)ACT 3 (2.6%)Maori 4 (2.4%)United Future 1 (0.5%)Progressive 1 (0.2%) There will be an overhang so the magic number to chase is a majority of 122 seats. Most likely formulae are: National+ACT+United Future = 63 seatsLabour+Prog+Greens = 55 seats Other possibilities could happen. The next days [...]
Tags: Elections · John Key · National Party · NZ Government
A Voting Guide
November 7th, 2008 13 Comments
How to choose who to vote for tomorrow, from Glenn (once again – what can we say? he is brilliant and we ran out of time *ahem*) Extract from: So who AM I voting for? (the election blog, part 3) Basic Human rights/freedomsThere are some bottom line human rights and liberties that should always be [...]
Tags: ACT Party · Christian Parties · Due Process · Elections · Glenn Peoples · National Party · Rights and Freedoms · Role of the State · Welfare
Decisions Decisions
November 7th, 2008 8 Comments
We have still not decided who we will give our party vote to so tonight’s mission is to finally work out which party we are voting for. Our previous list of potentials has been whittled down to: ACT – have Sir Roger Douglas, NZ needs him right now, they are the second most correct and [...]
Tags: ACT Party · Elections · National Party · Voting
The Special Votes Give a Seat to the Greens
November 22nd, 2008 1 Comment
The Special Votes have been counted, the official result of the New Zealand 2008 Election is in; see the effect they have made on the provisional results: Final results in bold, (provisional results in brackets) National 44.93% (45.45%) – 58 (59) seatsLabour 33.99% (33.77%) – 43 seatsGreen 6.72% (6.43%) – 9 (8) seatsACT 3.65% (3.72%) [...]
Tags: Elections · Green Party