…laugh it up NZers, you’ve allowed a corrupt private corporation with appalling human rights to make money out of incarceration along with Government Departments and that corrupt corporation also make money out of nuclear weapons.
Spare a thought for poor old John Key.
I think one of the fundamental misunderstandings by journalists and politicians over the new P epidemic is that they don’t understand the economics and power struggles at work.
…Joyce has played fast and loose with the rules since he entered Parliament. That he’s continuing it now should surprise no one.
In terms of a political game changer, the Labour Party’s final present to NZ on its 100th Birthday of 100 000 affordable homes is about as good as it gets.
I’ve personally known 5 Labour Party leaders. Lange, Clark, Goff, Shearer and Cunliffe. Lange wrote columns for the University Magazine I edited, I met Clark dozens of times, I went around to Goff’s house for a BBQ, I used to catch up with Shearer for coffees now and then and I’ve hung out with Cunliffe.
With Labour’s 100th Birthday and with National stumbling so badly, the mainstream media pundits are lining up a new narrative. The old narrative was ‘National are so successful because they are so moderate’.
Labour have probably won the next election. The nifty, ‘we will build houses while National will sell them’ is the perfect simplistic juxtaposition that loads emotional attachment where ideology once resided.
John Key is desperately thrashing around pretending like he’s actually doing something about the housing crisis so that middle NZ get conned again.
The response to highlighting the appalling human rights of some of those country’s we are trying to cut free trade deals with is always ‘if we only traded with those we agree with we wouldn’t trade at all’.
I call bullshit on that on two grounds.