Because poor old Labour desperately need to stay on Winston’s good side and because the Greens will get shafted with sweet bugger all in a Labour/NZ First minority Government if they criticise him, it looks like I’ll have to point out for the Left how fucking stupid Winston’s comments are.
The last 9 year rule of National has seen a deeply ideological drive to mutilate the state’s ability to raise revenue so that it can consistently amputate their social welfare obligations. This allows the Government to claim they are ‘living within their means’.
It is almost obscene that right wing pundits get to pretend that this was a ‘left wing family friendly’ budget when it was nothing of the sort!
Julie Christie was cultural herpes who used TV to distract and dumb down a country. She is the McDonalds of entertainment and is nothing to celebrate or support. She has committed more hate crimes against broadcasting than Mike Hosking and her role in killing off Campbell Live should never be forgiven.
Whose actions deserve rewarding? A rich millionaire whose sense of entitlement allowed him to touch a young woman at work on 10 seperate occasions or the young woman who stood up to him in front of his armed security team and demanded he stop touching her?
4 months out from a General Election and the list of issues that our political class and corporate media are avoiding is just extraordinary…
…responding to cruelty, hate and twisted spiteful inadequacy with compassion, kindness and love will do more to ending this war on terror than any military escalation or civil liberties clamp down ever can.
This vacant optimism merchant banker whose laid back persona struck a chord with middle NZs anti-intellectualism made this country far worse for the poorest and most vulnerable amongst us.
…and they have the audacity to whine about fake news clickbait.
In short, Paris was a complete failure to begin with because it simply did not go anywhere near far enough. Trump pulling out is the least of our concerns.