Author: Martyn Bradbury

You beat the negative populism that Trump creates with positive populism. Trump plays to the economic and identity insecurities of the working classes using hatred of the other and divisiveness, Bernie offers those very same voters the hope of universal health care and education, Bernie re-pledges the solemn promise of democracy that you can look into the face of your child and know they will get a better deal than you have. 

…not only do we need to re-enter this mine, we need to re-enter the whole bloody investigation, because the sudden disappearance of a piece of evidence that would tell us where the real blame lies is atrocious. 

He reminds us that even though prisoners have wronged us and must be punished, they are still human beings with human rights.

Labour’s greatest challenge in front of it right now is the ideological right wing arseholes who have taken up residence in our public service. Like cancerous tumours, they have spread their hateful right wing beliefs and infected every inch of what should be a welfare system designed to protect and help rather than punish.

It’s official, TV3s Poll was not a rogue poll, there really has been a large fundamental shift within the electorate towards Jacinda & Labour.