The Bradbury Group with Make-it-16, National Party Minister Chris Penk, Business Journalist Maria Slade and Matthew Tukaki
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This week: Make-it-16 Spokesperson Lincoln Jones on the Youth Parliament censorship scandal, the importance of youth voice in politics and why NZ should lower the voting age to 16.
Political Panel:
National Party Minister, Chris Penk
Business Desk Journalist, Maria Slade
Political Commentator, Matthew Tukaki
Topics:
Issue 1 – OCR decision and the current state of the Economy for voters – where’s the pro-growth Budget gone?
Issue 2 – Coward Punch, First Responder Assaults and new retail crime laws – how is this all making us safer?
Issue 3 – The Regulatory Standards Bill Select Committee Submissions are not polite to David Seymour – now, why would that be?
and Issue 4 Tonight – Tāmaki Makaurau By-election predictions, we know a lot of campaign teams are watching tonight
‘are those who can scare the young into voting for them, like the Greens.’
As opposed to those who scare old people into voting for them by saying house prices may fall.
Those who scare people into voting for them by saying the country faces an epidemic of lawlessness.
Those who scare people into voting for them by saying we need to ally ourselves to the USA and take part in pointless wars.
Bob the First Prize winner in the competition; ‘White, right and hypocritical’
The Party’s are those who can scare the people into voting for them using racism as a tool, like ACT and NZ First.
The Party’s are those who can scare the people into voting for them using false promises on tax cuts, new Picton ferries and gutting the public service, like National.
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If a 16-year-old can get married and have sex, then why can’t they vote if they want to, as many of these 16-year-olds will have more clues than others already voting and the many not voting.
100% agree .These young people have more clues than Winston and Seymour do .If those two looked at the makeup of the population now they would realize they are living in the dark ages .White supremesy is coming to an end in NZ .
Penk ,as expected was full of shit and next to useless .