What the collapse in business confidence really says is the entire entrepreneur class of NZ relied on mass immigration, low wages and an underfunded social infrastructure – this is why neoliberal capitalism is a failure.
The shocking spike in the number of deaths from synthetic cannabis is a direct result of Parliament scrapping the Psychoactive Substances Act and the continued cannabis prohibition- NZ MPs have blood on their hands!
Winston was a great Acting Prime Minister, there was nothing to ever worry about and watching those same right wing pundits trying to back peddle from their previous criticisms, even though they were made only 6 weeks ago, is a reminder of the echo chamber of the elite media pundits and just how limited the actual range of opinions the mainstream media provide.
What most commentators have failed to grasp is that National didn’t offer any real new policy because they don’t have to.
National desperately want to revive the Hobbit Law victory they had last time against Actors Equity that delivered John Key such an enormous political victory.
Much has been written in scorn of the Greens somehow losing their moral and ethical compass in supporting the waka jumping legislation.
I am not one of them.
It is so important that Q+A is now on at prime time.
It’s been an interesting conference and I think some of the surface headlines suggest deeper moves we aren’t picking up on.
Charter Schools always seemed to be a solution searching for a problem.
If we made 7pm a time slot of current affairs, we could get a broad spectrum of that across the channels.