The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 26th November 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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National whines about Cullen’s appointment – they should know about cronyism
When it comes to a repulsive cocktail of double standards, self-interest, and hypocrisy, National is the party that just keeps on giving…
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Why Black Friday is the perfect mutation of the First Thanksgiving Colonialism
Black Friday is the shopping day after Thanksgiving in America where stores drop prices to ridiculously low levels causing ugly scenes of violence outside department stores as desperate people shove and stampede past each other in an orgy of consumerism that makes one sad and repelled in equal measure.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Saturday 25th November 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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St. Steven and the Holy Grail of Fiscal Responsibility
Each time the Nats open their mouths to carp about the Coalition’s reforms, it is a delight to remind them of their own pitiful track record over the last nine years. And for Steven Joyce, I offer his very own:
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A Moral Victory: The Supreme Court Rescues Our Judiciary From Itself
THE SUPREME COURT has finally declared the deal struck between the Department of Labour and Pike River boss, Peter Whittall, “unlawful”. A moral victory for Sonja Rockhouse and Anna Osborne, certainly, but hardly a victory for the New Zealand justice system.
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Is Winston changing tack?
The Israel Institute of New Zealand, in an article entitled Post Election outlook for New Zealand’s relationship with Israel, noted with pleasure that Winston Peters was now in the position of ‘king maker’.
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Elites strike new Government with fear of recession, Liam Dann’s prozac and the PSA is grumpy with new Tax Group
Michael Cullen’s appointment on the tax working group has the PSA screaming, but it misses why he’s been appointed.
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$50 per week won’t solve student debt blackhole
Labour should be embarrassed by this meaningless policy.
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Call for a strong and enduring response to reducing poverty – CPAG
Reducing child poverty was on top of the agenda for New Zealand’s main political parties going into the 2017 Election….