I want Labour to have a second term, but I fear they’re lack of dynamism and executive foresight to cauterise problems means they are still a 50-50 chance of being one term Government.
After smacking down Labour’s Māori senior vice president Tane Phillips in favour of Claire Szabó, Willie Jackson’s job to keep the 7 Māori electorates just got harder.
Labour’s message is ‘Labour – Let’s keep doing this’.
Really, and what is ‘this’ that we are doing? Incremental glacial change?
Anything requiring the title ‘strike force raptor’ should only apply to an actual dinosaur who has slipped through a time portal
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.
…when is our Government going to have words with our largest trading partner about those internment camps?
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.
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.
…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.
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.