Political Ramifications of Jacinda’s wedding (why Simon Bridges is safe as leader now)
The only way Simon Bridges could counter this is by personally entering Pike River Mine and finding the Ark of the Covenant while healing sick children.
Month: May 2019
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Finally something to cheer from Labour (warning – it’s tiny but what else do we have?)
Luckily for the Government they have a wedding to plan and the middle classes attention will quickly slip away from their egalitarian pretensions to what wedding dress designer Jacinda will be wearing.
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Mental Health Inquiry & Afghan Inquiry – two more whitewashes & more evidence of a corrupt neoliberal public service
The Left have looked to the state as the great leveller of Capitalism’s inequalities and with so many vocal left twitter union voices working inside those very same public services in Wellington, the point blank refusal to recognise and challenge this is conveniently ignored by those who are paid by those same agencies. What is required is a purge within the public services and Politicians with the courage to stand up to the bureaucrats alongside a political agenda to truly reform the State Services Act. We could start with every Māori Politician releasing the full uncensored Māori Mental Health report and daring the public service to fine them $10 000.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – We need an escape plan
The more I watch the Labour coalition government ignore the recommendations of the working groups it has set up (at considerable cost ) the more it’s clear to me that the Ardern/Roberston government is going to make the inmates of our neoliberal prison a little more comfortable with warmer cells to rent (for example) , but they are not going to open the prison gates.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Help the little guys fight the big guy
Sustainable Otakiri has four days left to meet the costs of Sustainable Otakiri taking the Chinese owned company that wants to bottle .1 million m3 of deep-aquifer water/year (that’s 2,451, 960 bottles each day) to the Environment Court.
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The Liberal Agenda – New Zealand Public Television Trust: Transforming cities with technology?
If you use one of those “free” electric scooters or bikes you are giving someone valuable data about your movements around the city. Is that something that concerns you – or not?
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Dr Liz Gordon – The Bob and Dave roadshow
This is not good enough. Ratepayers need to see a proper, complete, financial accounting of the Henderson saga, and of what it has cost, from first to last. There is a new Council now, a different Mayor and new policies. I would like to see the Christchurch City Council do a public reckoning to its ratepayers of what this iniquitous and shambolic deal cost us, first and last.
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Dr Liz Gordon – That disgusting benefit sanction is gone
Yes, I know, the decision not to increase benefits yet is terrible. It does condemn many households to a further miserable existence in povertyland. And it is wrong. But I am celebrating today. Because thousands of single parent families, whose only ‘crime’ was to refuse to name the father of their child/ren, will no longer be subject to a punitive and disgusting sanction of $28 per week.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 5th May 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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TDB Top 5 International Stories: Sunday 5th May 2019
5: Does Julian Assange Have a Roommate in Jail? A VICE News Investigation
4: Rockets fired from Gaza day after Israel kills four Palestinians
3: A WAR REPORTER COVERS “THE END OF ICE” — AND IT WILL CHANGE THE WAY YOU THINK ABOUT CLIMATE CATASTROPHE
2: We Can’t Back People Who Hate Our Kids: Kentucky & Minnesota Teachers of Year Boycott Trump Meeting
1: Trump insists nuclear deal will happen after North Korea fires projectiles