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The Bradbury Group with Minister of Defence Chris Penk on NZ military in time of conflict; Green MP Huhana Lyndon on climate change + Political Panel: Hooton, Dita De Boni, Maria Slade, Tukaki
A Marxist, A Government Cabinet Minister, a Green MP, a Newspaper columnist and 2 business journalists all walk into a…
Shane plays to petty ‘tsunami of butter chicken’ bigotry while Labour defines the real issues behind free trade deals
Shane Jones throws red meat to the worst instincts — but the real danger is slipping through unnoticed. An India trade deal pushed by corporate interests, signed before the public ever sees the fine print.
Luxon claims support, then 5 traitors, then total support again – he’s becoming as credible as a non-orange Trump
Five disgruntled MPs… or total support? Luxon can’t seem to decide — and that contradiction is starting to look a lot like a leadership crisis National can’t contain.
What a Labour, Green, Te Pāti Māori, TOP Government could achieve
The numbers are shifting — and suddenly the left has real options. A four-party progressive government isn’t just theory anymore. The question now is what they’d actually do with it.
MEDIAWATCH: Why the BSA complaint against Sean Plunket is such a waste of time
Sean Plunket has said far worse than this, which is why the BSA complaint feels less like principle and more like bureaucratic theatre with a funding problem underneath.
Political Caption Competition
Winston is confused that he’s an opposition MP and not actually part of the Government
Surely Lusk and Collins can’t be that clever. If they were, they’d be multi-million paid CEOs instead of politician and apparatchik.
Can we really credit them with that much forethought, cleverness, and insight?
I get that it’s Judith and the Luskter but I’m not sure who’s meant to be more afraid of who…
Holy Moly ,either this is a piece of pure wanton creativity by Mr Trotter or the materialization of the invisible strings which are attached to the real puppet masters hands controlling poor old JLR.
Fiction or not , this is beginning to make Game of Thrones look like a kindergarten pantomime .
It comprises oozing multiple layers of dark brooding subterfuge, with lashings of corrosive uncertainty in the shadow lands of the velvet underground …
Sooooo Shakespearian.
It is , if true , quite plausible .
So who will expose deep throat ? Shouldn’t take too long.
In addition to JBL being the hapless pawn in a much bigger chess game , RNZ morning report today interviewed an academic from Canturbury who is an expert on Chinese influence in NZ , which suggests strong links between the Chinese govt and “donations “for buying list MPs seats .Well worth the listen to expand the story’s narrative to include the systematic corruption of NZ democracy and sovereignty by a foreign power . Good old National selling us out one deal at a time .
Its about time we got an even bigger broom and swept them all out to a new neoliberal neofeudal colony on the Chatham Islands and only let them back once they pass a human empathy test .Fat chance .
In any event ,and on many levels ,the lid is being lifted on National’s seething pit of vipers .In a small democracy at the bottom of the world sunlight is still the best disinfectant.
Have a nice day .
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