What would replacing King with Ardern mean for Labour?
Since it’s being discussed by the punditry, what would replacing King with Ardern mean for Labour?
Author: Martyn Bradbury
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Huge blowout in emergency housing further evidence of how out of touch National are with real NZ
National need to look like they are doing something about the Housing Crisis without actually fixing it because they are dependent on paper millionaire middle class property speculators to keep voting for them and because National desperately need to keep the false economic growth numbers looking good.
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The Horror of CYFs exposed once again
Talk to anyone dealing with CYFs and they complain that CYFs are useless at finding safe whanau for children at risk. This is because people go out of their way to not be contacted by state agencies because these neoliberal welfare agencies are seen as the enemy.
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TV REVIEW: The AM Show – only ‘people’ talking up Jacinda’s ‘leadership aspirations’ are the bloody media
Watching that awful ‘AM Show’ on TV3 this morning.
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Red Landslide swallow Greens – Mt Albert by-election 2017: Winners & Losers & General Election Ramifications
The weakness of the Greens tonight for one of their star candidates will mean they will have real problems with Labour come the election.
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Bill English blames Gaia for Auckland Housing Crisis
They’ve spent so long bullying beneficiaries and the poor with this bullshit pretending it to be sound reasoned policy that when they try the same garbage on the educated middle classes they use the same condescending tone.
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National’s ‘swimmable’ rivers policy is another ‘alternative facts’ moment and why we can’t allow it
The Government redefinition of ‘swimmable’ as water that doesn’t directly burn your eyes, ears or lips and will only make 1 in 20 sick is a farce and it says the Government thinks we are idiots…
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Nothing highlights the racist blindspot & vacant ignorance of NZ mainstream media quite like the Mike Bush drink driving story
Look, I’m all for putting the boot into the cops about their incredible expansion of surveillance, bugger all oversight to their powers and don’t start me on the poorly resourced Independent Police Conduct Authority, but shanking Mike Bush in the media as a hypocrite for leading an organisation that would now stop someone becoming a Police Officer for drink driving is the most petty of examinations.
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Family Fist exploiting transphobia for political moralistic point scoring is far more destructive than transgender toilet use
PLEASE NOTE: I realise that transgender issues are a minefield which a stupid cis-male like me can blunder into and cause harm. That’s not my intention and please accept my apologies if I do.
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Fairfax threatens NZ again & Sky/Vodaphone smackdown
Watching the mega corporations who have managed to avoid any real regulation in NZ burst into tears over not being able to get their anti-competition mergers is just delightful.