I’ll bet he has Martyn Bradbury working assiduously in his campaign team.
Veteran activist John Minto is asking his political party to approve a run for mayor of Auckland. The trade unionist and teacher said Mayor Len Brown had disappointed him.
“What has Len Brown done which is different to what John Banks would have done if he were in? You struggle to find many significant things.” Read more »
People who read my posts will know I have not been an uncritical supporter of the Labour Party. The party has struggled from one blunder to the next, and this tendency towards self-injury has driven much of the ongoing speculation about David Shearer’s leadership. Many of us have looked on in dismay as Labour tears itself apart, and more than a few of us have found ourselves questioning our choice of party. Read more »
The left wing are all outraged that Judith Collins has chosen a european woman for the new Race Relations Commissioner. Worse still one that does not meet their special requirements. As is usual they mount a personal attack and dredge up innocuous columns form little read newspapers.
One of the things that she stands accused of is racism based on a column written two years ago in the Bay of Plenty Times where she said:
The reality is that most New Zealanders either couldn’t care less or are frustrated that what should be a day of national celebration is marred by political shenanigans.
Not much different from the political posturing at Ratana the previous week.
The saving grace is at least this year we do get a public holiday. Last year, we all felt cheated that Waitangi Day fell on a weekend and we were denied that.
So for most of us, it is an opportunity for a day at the beach, the good ol’ Kiwi barbie in the summer sun with little reflection on the meaning of the day.
Waitangi has been hijacked and if it can never be really seen as a day of national celebration then perhaps the time has come to choose another true New Zealand day.
We only need to look across the Tasman to witness how Australians celebrate their day.
This apparently is hanging offence, with Annette Sykes and Catherine Delahunty calling for her to stand down before she has even started in the job. Read more »
Martyn Bradbury is setting up shop on his own blog.
This will go one of two ways: either I won’t be able stop going there for my daily laugh, or (much more likely), I’ll pop in when he’s made such a fool of himself that the news of it drifts into the attention span of the general media.
The top strategist who engineered the failed coup of David Cunliffe is stepping down.
Earlier today Martyn Bradbury announced his retirement as “editor” [snigger] of Tumeke blog, and moving on to greener pastures.
On March 1st I’m launching something new, consider it my media blow for a more egalitarian New Zealand. That announcement will be made next week on Tumeke.
Until then I’ll see out my month here, albeit a wee bit less frequently due to organising everything for March, but it is time for me to take the next step and that next step begins in 17 days. Read more »
Martyn Bradbury has written a tl;dr post ranking bloggers…all left wing bloggers with a few notable exceptions are wonderful nice people and us right wingers plus the few notable exceptions like Scott Yorke and Josie Pagani are branded evil
His evil rankings are as follows:
Cactus Kate – Chaotic Neutral Blogger – Cactus will be seething about this, this is a rather lame effort from her.
Josie Pagani – Chaotic Neutral Blogger Runner Up – Again a pathetic effort of evilness considering she is trained by her husband, the uber evil John Pagani
David Farrar – Lawful Evil Blogger – laughable award…Farrar is so busy sucking up to all sides in the beltway he can’t possibly be evil
Scott Yorke – Lawful Evil Blogger Runner Up – Scott is very happy to accept this award and is going to try much harder this year.
Matthew Hooton – Neutral Evil Blogger – Corporate Whore would have been a more appropriate title.
Jordan Williams – Neutral Evil Blogger Runner Up – Jordan doesn’t even blog…and is barely evil.
Now for the Supreme Award…the Chaotic Evil Blogger Award…which is of course me…there are no runners up…although Barnsley Bill and Keeping Stock get mentions. Barnsley is somewhat evil but Keeping Stock is the quite possibly the world’s most boring blogger, challenged only by the obsequious Pete George. Neither of them could remotely be called evil.
His move from blog to Newspaper was a brilliant business decision by his pornographers turned newspaper owners. Slater will weaponize the Truth and bring a new level of ugly into the media that would make the Leveson Inquiry blush.
Of course Martyn Bradbury was quite happy to accept the pornographers dollars when he had a column at Truth…does that make him a hypocrite…why yes it does. The savings in him quitting have meant the team can now enjoy a couple of boxes of cheap beer on Friday nights. Thanks Martyn for your sacrifice.
Martyn concludes:
His success at turning the Truth into a casually fascist pus pit that will infect the media landscape is all but guaranteed. Journalism students throughout NZ are warned that repeating the word ‘whaleoil’ three times in a mirror leads to him appearing behind you with a hook for a hand.
He is mistaken…there is never anything remotely casual about my blogging or my work. Weaponizing Truth…now that is just plain sexy.
Bryce Edwards has again failed to include any of my blogposts in his daily politics round-up.
His decision to ignore my powerful post John Key is evil and kills children was obviously deliberate. He’s part of the problem, not the solution, now that he works for the Herald.
4:08 pm
Spent most of the afternoon blocking people on Twitter, defriending people of Facebook, banning people from my blog, and writing a blogpost attacking various other bloggers and commentators on the left. The only thing worse than a right wing stooge is a leftie who has a different shade of opinion to mine.
I once offered to combine blog forces with The Standard, but they turned me down. Well it’s their loss. They’re just a bunch of tired Labour party hacks too scared to speak truth to power. Their politics disgust me, and I suspect them of being class enemies, one and all.
Why won’t they let me do a guest post?
5:51 pm
That loathsome Whaleoil needs to be stopped. That obnoxious fascist clown and his National Party shill David Farrar represent everything that’s wrong with the world.
And have you seen their blog traffic? It’s so unfair!
John Tamihere has been banned Pedro Gower at 3News has revealed. John Tamihere has described their processes as like joining the Head Hunters.
The Labour Party faithful have queued up to get into their party conference in Auckland this evening.
All members are welcome except one – the prodigal son, John Tamihere – who has not been allowed to return.
“It’s a bit like joining the Head Hunters,” he says, “as I’m trying to walk through, trying to get my membership, they are all there beating you – it’s a bit like a gang, a gang initiation”.
Yes, that’s right. Mr Tamihere compares the Labour Party to the Head Hunters, Auckland’s most feared gang. That’s because while he’s paid his membership fees and wants to be an MP again, his colourful past – including a Serious Fraud Office investigation – means that membership is yet to be approved by the party hierarchy.
He says he is being blocked by forces from within.
“No one wants you back if you are deemed to be a threat, so what you’ve got to do is water your threats down and kill them off – that’s politics,” he says.
Lynn Prentice from the hate speech blog, The Standard, is allowed in as media. Martyn Bradbury is also allowed in, other media too…but not the editor of Truth and now not John Tamihere.
Labour do allow other unsavoury characters in though…like Shane Te Pou:
3 News tried to talk to Labour Party member Shane Te Pou about Mr Tamihere, but found the door closed. Mr Te Pou was a key figure in the Bill Liu citizenship controversy – a series of events currently under investigation by the Auditor-General. But while Mr Te Pou is allowed into the conference, Mr Tamihere isn’t.
Mr Tamihere did actually back under-fire Labour leader David Shearer, but today Mr Shearer couldn’t bring himself to back Mr Tamihere.
“I’m not going to give a personal view,” he says.
Labour don’t believe in freedom of the press and now they are banning people from joining the party, precisely the types of people they should be encouraging. It is obvious now that the only media allowed are those sympathetic to the Labour cause. If those media respected media freedom they would boycott the conference.
We started our Saturday by paying our respects to 
