Underfunded Nurses, Teachers & Midwives – the National Party legacy
The new Government MUST use this opportunity to bargain with the Unions for better pay and conditions in return for wholesale culture changes in each of those sectors.
Author: Martyn Bradbury
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Oh come on everyone – how is it a surprise that Labour/Greens/NZ First had no idea what to do?
Radio NZ have done an interesting story looking at the plethora of reviews, working groups, advisory groups and investigations that the new Government have announced since coming to power…
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Did the National Party use Cambridge Analytica through Thiel’s Palantir in the 2017 election?
In the same week Cambridge Analytica has been busted exploiting Facebook data mining the NZDF is being forced to answer questions about Peter Thiel’s mass surveillance data mining.
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Herald catch NZDF out in war crime lie
Our media have a sorry history of being played like propaganda sock puppets by the NZDF. Here they are with full and undisputed evidence that the NZDF lied again and where is the wall to wall media focus demanding accountability?
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The solution to Police pursuits is arming the Police? Wait, what?
…we need a rational debate about Police pursuit policy that can’t be derailed by ‘respect my authority’ as a response.
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Let’s be honest bout what Key & Obama will talk about while golfing: TPPA & Kim Dotcom
…Key had golf with Obama on January 3rd 2014 and by 19th February 2014 the old boy network of the New Zealand appeals court overruled the 28 June 2012 decision, and declared the search warrants against Kim Dotcom to be valid.
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Green Party Political Polyamory
I for one did not vote Greens for them to hand over fucking 42 parliamentary questions to the fucking National Party.
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Trump’s tariffs, trade war with China, Evangelist voters & Porn Stars and his enormous North Korean gamble
…the latest sackings at the Trump White House & Casino this week show Trump is now so comfortable in his ignorance that he will throw any semblance of caution to the wind and surround himself with people who flatter his ego rather than serve the Office.
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How did a far right attack troll know about the Labour Party Summer Camp scandal 24 hours after it happened?
…how did a far right Troll know about this scandal before anyone else in the Labour Party hierarchy?
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UPDATE: The Greens have managed to self sabotage themselves with the glee of a depressed goth Kamikaze pilot
On a very technical level at a Wellington-Central-vegan-cycle-friendly-consent-contract-signed-after- work-function that is chaperoned, you could mount an intellectual argument that Governments can’t and won’t hold themselves to account so giving the Opposition extra questions to do that is a technically principled position to take.
You could mount that argument.