Month: July 2018

Cannabis reform, welfare culture reform and climate change – if this is the best Labour and the Greens can muster to central issues of the Left, they need to be replaced because this crap is window dressing, it isn’t leadership.  

Rather than punish the user, go after the bloody industry. Consistently raising the price so the end user is forced to get more and more desperate to feed their addiction is not a solution. Create a vice tax that goes on the profit margin of the tobacco company. Put the pressure on the corporation to pay more of their profits rather than endlessly punish the end user.

Winston will hope this inquiry wraps up quickly before Simon realises the talkback gold he’s been gifted.

What was interesting about Bridges wasn’t him admitting our judicial system is corrupt or that there are no actual means to challenge cases that are fundamentally miscarriages of justice, oh no, Bridges honed in on the witch hunt element.

The new Government still haven’t managed to get control over the levers of power and it leaves the question open, is the new Government running this country or are right wing Wellington bureaucrats still running NZ?