Political Caption Competition – Jacinda Ardern Special
This meme is never ever going to get old
Month: August 2017
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Thursday 3rd August 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Journalist blocks TDB Blogger
his action to block a person from even reading what he has written strikes me as totally contrary to what a journalist should be. Journalists should never decide who can and can’t read their material.
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Labour’s last throw of the neo-liberal dice
It will be interesting to see if Jacinda Ardern can breathe some life into Labour’s neo-liberal corpse.
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Twitter Watch: Witness Gerry Brownlee’s petty & dangerously paranoid attack on Patrick Gower
Brownlee must have sat down and worked out how he could look dangerously paranoid and petty with all the grace of Donald Trump in just one gesture.
He succeeded.
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Labour’s prospects after its (latest) leadership change
Labour definitely couldn’t afford to poll any lower – without risking key senior MPs. So the departure of Andrew Little probably couldn’t damage the party any more than if he were to stay. Even though it’s extraordinary (but not unprecedented) for a leader to resign so close to an election, desperate times call for desperate measures.
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Twitter Watch – Helen Clark smashes Matthew Hooton
The lies and fear mongering that the right wing are trying to spin right now as the enormity of public support rushing towards Jacinda builds with astonishing speed is becoming ridiculous now.
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Labour Can Win If … Defining Jacinda’s Political Mission
LABOUR CAN NOW WIN the 2017 General Election. Thanks to Andrew Little’s noble self-sacrifice and Jacinda Ardern’s spectacular political talent, the fortunes of the centre-left have undergone a sudden and dramatic transformation. Victory is not, however, certain. As always in electoral politics, there are a number of important “ifs” that must be factored into any winning equation.
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Hold on – National cut suicide helpline to give contract to Bill English’s wife?!?
Gutting one of NZs biggest suicide counselling lines at a time of spiking suicide to give the contract to Bill English’s wife isn’t just ‘bad optics’ it’s a lack of perspective that screams arrogance at such a frequency that it shatters the eyeballs in their sockets.
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Yay – it’s NZs brighter future we were promised – a .1% reduction in unemployment
…if it’s a rockstar economy, it’s an acoustic performance on invisible guitars.