When the Leader of the Opposition can claim on TV that ‘trickle down’ works, you know we are a country still in the grip of neoliberal culture. The Left has become so distracted by Identity Politics they don’t have an economic class response to counter neoliberalism and Budget 2018 is the perfect example of this.
If there is a silent majority of racists living in Northcote, they finally have their knight in shining by burning cross light armour.
…you may not remember the unbelievable clusterfuck that was the Saudi Sheep bribe fiasco, so let me remind you in detail the fully fledged horror of it all.
Garth McVicar is to reasonable social policy on prisons what ISIS is to inter-faith dialogue.
Every election NZ has the choice to either allow National to keep screwing the country up, or allowing Labour in to fix National’s damage
NZ must remove Israel from our Working Holiday program, allowing IDF here to refresh themselves after such butchery is repugnant and it makes a stand.
I was fortunate enough to get a guest ticket to go along with Voyager to the NZ Media Awards last week. It’s a big moment for Voyager, they are stepping up to sponsor the awards because their leader and founder, Seeby Woodhouse, believes passionately in journalism.
I support his vision, and who am I to turn down an open bar?
I’m guessing the decision to build the new mega-prison must be already made.
I’m guessing the previous government would have signed any future government up to a contract that would cost you an arm and a leg to pull out of.
On top of this cost reality, you have run out of prison beds which means changes to legislation to stop throwing NZers into prison will help things in the future, they won’t help now.
So what are you to do?
We of the online Left have openly mocked these weird memes which keep showing Jacinda winning as a weird message to use in attempting to denigrate the new Government. What we on the online Left however are missing is that for rump National voters who believe erroneously they were cheated by Jacinda winning, this constant winner framing is rubbing salt in still open wounds.
Have the people of Christchurch suffered longer than they needed and have the farming community been betrayed by their own Party?