National’s 2020 ‘Strike Force Raptor’ – hanging gang members first and asking questions second
Anything requiring the title ‘strike force raptor’ should only apply to an actual dinosaur who has slipped through a time portal
Author: Martyn Bradbury
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MEDIA WATCH: A desperate person clutches at online straw polls
This is such a bad poll because it makes the Left feel a lot more complacent than they should. This is an online poll and online polls are pretty notorious with their accuracy.
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So when are we going to talk about China and is milk a bit fascist?
…when is our Government going to have words with our largest trading partner about those internment camps?
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National want forced labour prisons
The latest attempt at eroding prisoners civil rights are National’s calls for forced labour camps. What National are ignoring is NZ is signed up to International Labour conditions that specifically ban forced prison labour.
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Waatea News Column: If we legalise Cannabis, Maori must be given a leading role in industry to influence it
If Māori attempt to look like they are gaining advantage in a new industry, the majority will backlash, if Māori advocate for a system that actively seeks to redress the bias of the old law now by entrenching a system that protects Māori agency, the majority will listen.
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Prisoners rights to vote and the dark path to eroding our civil liberties as promised by National
…NO! NO! NO! Parliament are not ‘entitled’ to strip prisoners of the right to vote, you need a super majority to do that! For Simon to be arguing that a bare 51% majority has the power to strip the rights off the other 49% is a dangerous precedent to be attempting to seek here.
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NZ First scandal – it is the culture backlash that’ll get you in politics now
NZ First will be investigated, it will be found that while the spirit of the law has been shat all over, everything is legal under the current legislation with its purposely designed enormous loop holes you can drive truck loads of cash through.
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Andrew Geddis leads the NZ First backdown and the real solution to kicking out corporate interests in politics is public funding
Remember when the media breathlessly screamed the PM not only knew about a sexual assault but covered it up and then went really quiet on that insinuation? Yeah, well funny how everyone screamed NZ First had broken the law & now watch all the walking back on that claim.
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Someone please tell me this bloody ‘slide’ pretending to be a budget MacDonalds playground didn’t cost $500k?
For $500 000 I expect a teleportation portal at the bottom of the damned thing that immediately transports me to an Amsterdam coffee shop!
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Can NZ Greens do what Elizabeth Warren has done and step beyond Identity Politics to challenge neoliberalism?
…it is time to restructure the edifice and doing that requires a tax that hits the richest hardest.