Author: Martyn Bradbury

Yes. Finally. Thank the little Baby Jesus that this Labour-Green Government had ended their trite incrementalism and were actually fucking doing something real and meaningful about the existential crisis of our time – Global Warming.

This looming backlash will make the Orewa Speech look well reasoned and intelligent.

This can only happen because we don’t have universal unionism that is able to ensure everyone is getting the same rates and benefits.

I’m sorry, but this inquiry is starting to reek like a massive white wash.

What the hell just happened? Barely hours after Kelvin Davis shows his slavish devotion to Oranga Tamariki and promises to be a more captured Minister than Carmel Sepeloni is, and what do Oranga Tamairki do to their new Minister?

Like a prom night in a lonely rural community molested by meth addiction and alcoholism, New Zealand’s  53rd Parliament had winners, it had losers and it had the people it is supposed to serve as alienated and distant as ever before. 

Labour and the Greens are in real trouble. Barely a month after the election, large swathes of the Left are horrified by the utter lack of any transformative change despite Labour’s unprecedented MMP majority.