The Daily Blog Open Mic – Saturday 9th September 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Year: 2017
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Tales From A Possible Future: Expanding The Tax Working Group
THE FIRST SIGN that Jacinda Ardern’s would be a very different sort of Labour Government came early.
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3rd Leaders Debate – Jacinda did to Bill English what Hurricane Harvey, Irma & Jose is doing to Trump’s climate denial
The wave of derision, anger and outright fury directed at Bill English when he tried to spin his lines was so visceral that it actually stunned him a couple of times and he turned a lighter shade of grey. I’ve never seen person drown live on TV, but I suspect it looked like Bill.
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CPAG Livestream Beyond Social Investment 2017
‘Social Investment’ is a buzzword that is guiding the current National Government’s social policy decisions. What does it mean? What are the implications of increased ‘target efficiency’?
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If this is how WINZ treat Russell Brown – imagine how they treat the vulnerable?
The very first thing a new Labour Government needs to embark upon is a vast purge of the public service staff who are as much part of the problem as the policy is.
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GUEST BLOG: Dave Brownz – Will US vs China/Russia end in WW3?
The Pentagon now agrees with anti-imperialists that the US is in decline and faces the rise of Russia and China. They term this the “loss of US primacy” or global hegemony, and want the US military to gear up to take on Russia and China.
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5 Candidates For The Seat Of Limerick
The Nats most magnificent troll
Said: “I’ve just found a fiscal black hole
so impossibly big
that Grant cannot dig
Labour out before the next poll!”
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Friday 8th September 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Latest TV One Poll – Labour 43% National 39%
Watch as the National Party dirty politics attack machine goes ballistic. The fictitious $11billion hole that doesn’t exist is just a taste of how vicious the rich and powerful get when they are suddenly threatened with losing power.
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Wait, what? National’s claims of 1 in 5 beneficiaries too stoned to work is a bullshit figure plucked out of the air?
This is what 9 years of National has left us with, spiteful social policy drowned in stereotypes that have little basis in fact.