The Jami-Lee Ross audio tapes are damning

By Martyn Bradbury  /  October 17, 2018  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  21 Comments

Jami-Lee Ross wasn’t lying was he – those tapes are pretty damaging and news today that Lusk is advising him is as much evidence as we’re going to get that this is dirty politics and an attempted coup to remove Bridges – the question is who is the puppet master?

Well, well, well – Aaron Bhatnagar and Dirty Politics is back inside the National Party

By Martyn Bradbury  /  October 17, 2018  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  17 Comments

This is getting dirtier and nastier but this time around the sleepy hobbits of muddle Nu Zilind don’t have the laid back anti-intellectualism of John Key to absolve their conscience and ignore corruption, they have bumbling Simon Bridges. Key could look down the barrel of the camera and lie to our faces and the sleepy hobbits loved him for it, Simon can’t lie convincingly and they will turn on him.

National Party voters love a good liar, they detest a weak one. 

“inappropriate behaviour that is unacceptable from a married Member of Parliament.” – I’m sorry what?

By Martyn Bradbury  /  October 17, 2018  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  14 Comments

If National are going to stand by that new ethical line in the sand, then should we start applying it to other National Party MPs?

National looks less like a political party and more like a front for Chinese business interests

By Martyn Bradbury  /  October 16, 2018  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  22 Comments

As China regresses into a censorship totalitarian state, we need to ask how much influence our largest Political Party is under from Beijing and in whose interest does National rule? New Zealand’s or the People’s Republic of China? 

The famous last words of Michelle Boag

By Martyn Bradbury  /  October 16, 2018  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  10 Comments

If you want something done right, gag Michelle Boag first.

BY-ELECTION SCANDAL: That cold, terrifying and soulless nails-on-blackboard sound you hear right now is Judith Collins sharpening her talons

By Martyn Bradbury  /  October 16, 2018  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  38 Comments

Jami-Lee has not so much burnt his Bridges as he has napalmed him. 

What’s most shocking – Saudi Arabia butchering a journalist or that we are outraged despite them killing thousands in Yemen?

By Martyn Bradbury  /  October 16, 2018  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  9 Comments

I’m not sure what is more shocking – butchering a Washington Post Journalist or that it’s taken that murder to outrage everyone about Saudi Arabia when they’ve already killed thousands of civilians in Yemen.

The biggest abuser of the poor is the State – not loan sharks

By Martyn Bradbury  /  October 15, 2018  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  6 Comments

The reality that people in poverty go to loan sharks because they’re kinder than WINZ is another example of the counter productive fuckwittery of neoliberal social service agencies

The double standards of White rage when it comes to hiring more Māori at Hospitals

By Martyn Bradbury  /  October 15, 2018  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  7 Comments

It really says something about us as a country when the rage is focused at Hospitals trying to hire more Māori & Pacific Islanders because ‘that’s racist’, but there is no rage at those same Hospitals not resuscitating Māori & Pacific Island babies…

The 1080 hysteria has been debunked – what does it tell us about the state of activist debate?

By Martyn Bradbury  /  October 13, 2018  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  63 Comments

The venom, self righteousness and utterly misplaced perceptions that 1080 is poisoning  human beings  and vast amounts of unintentional wildlife has been an eye opening reality check of how poorly understood science is in todays activist world.

For those claiming Jacinda’s UN appearance with Neve was meaningless – here are the stats

By Martyn Bradbury  /  October 13, 2018  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  13 Comments

Those images of Jacinda at the UN with Clarke and Neve have given us more value for money than the entire Hobbit Trilogy.