Teachers Union falls into same trap as Nurses Union

By Martyn Bradbury  /  August 17, 2018  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  3 Comments

Expecting Labour to fix 9 years of underfunding in 9 months seems absurd but that’s the position the Public Union Leadership have placed the Labour Party in.

National scream the new Employment laws are 1970s Unionism the way Fox News called Obamacare socialism

By Martyn Bradbury  /  August 15, 2018  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  3 Comments

The truth is that what the new Government are proposing are very weak measures in terms of worker protections.

The sad spite of the ACT Party

By Martyn Bradbury  /  August 14, 2018  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  12 Comments

While Brash’s brand of malicious race baiting is in vogue again, Seymour steps up the tune and pledges to mutilate NZ politics by robbing the indigenous Treaty Partner of their only electoral bulwark against total assimilation.

Averting the Green’s slide into political irrelevance

By Martyn Bradbury  /  August 14, 2018  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  11 Comments

For the Greens, pushing a Green Tax Rate for sustainable businesses would connect them with a new electorate while promoting environmental economics that could gain huge buy in. It also makes them look like they are creating smart solutions rather than starting dumb fights or worse, looking clueless.  

Let’s just be really, really, really, really, really, really honest  about why Business confidence is plummeting.

By Martyn Bradbury  /  August 14, 2018  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  16 Comments

The last 9 years of growth has been a lie and a sham. A cheap pump and dump strategy from a money trader with all the morality of a feeding shark. Our Rock Star Economy has been held together by speculative greed, hope and snot. What business are realising is that the falseness of that empty model will give them nothing under a new government who are focused on affordable housing, lower immigration and reinvestment in schools, hospitals and public services.

Why Don Brash deserves to be New Zealander of the Year

By Martyn Bradbury  /  August 13, 2018  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  30 Comments

We are a juvenile culture with all the maturity of a can of day old coke where Heroes renovate property to flip for speculative capital gains and Success is the name of a cross-fit Instagram influencer you follow.

Why Don Brash is evil (yes I said evil), why the Woke protestors who rushed the debate at Auckland Uni empowered him & what everyone in NZ is missing about Free Speech

By Martyn Bradbury  /  August 11, 2018  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  58 Comments

Now at this stage of the blog, you’ll give me the benefit of the doubt and charitably agree that some might concede Brash’s words were harsh and bordering on a kind of bigotry, but then quickly assert that doesn’t mean Brash shouldn’t have the right to express those opinions and nor do those opinions even closely amount to Brash being evil and will challenge me that my use of such a word is hyperbole on my behalf and that by throwing around a word like that so needlessly, I am in fact being as counter productive as the woke protestors who rushed his stage and doesn’t this just all make me a hypocrite?

No. I don’t need nor require your benefit of the doubt.

No. It doesn’t mean he has a ‘right’ to those opinions.

Yes. The word evil is entirely appropriate.

No. The Woke Left be cray cray and I’m not cray cray.

Don. Brash.Is.Evil.

Let’s be as charitable as we can about Marama’s crusade to reclaim the C word

By Martyn Bradbury  /  August 10, 2018  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  22 Comments

As a Green voter, I feel like a Blues fan.

I’m so depressed I’m making Rugby analogies.

NZNO lose control of their nurse members and what it could mean for the entire NZ Union movement

By Martyn Bradbury  /  August 8, 2018  /  Deconstructing Headlines, Martyn Bradbury, Most Recent Blogs  /  14 Comments

There is a fascinating dynamic we are staring to see with increasingly militant members of Unions wanting far more than their Unions are able to negotiate.