Political Caption Competition
KING’S COLLEGE TUCK SHOP MENU:
MAINS:
Steamed Rhinos in white wine – $120
Whole grilled Gorilla with jerk gravy – $175
Blue Whale Sushi – $230
DESSERT: Eton Mess taken from the mouths of working class children – $45
Author: The Daily Blog
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Tuesday 26th February 2019
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Simon Bridges – out of touch with Kiwi Battlers
As property investors/speculators; assorted financiers; and their political-wing, the National Party, ramp up their opposition to a capital gains tax to a stridency approaching hysteria, current party leader, Simon Bridges, has used the mainstream media to push his highly propagandised (and highly emotive and misleading) messages;
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Māori Climate Commissioner: “National’s Environment Discussion Document thinks it can buy it’s way out of climate change consequences”
Boutique travel parks in our national parks, electric car subsidies, litter campaigns, tech fixes we are no where close to fixing, gene editing pest controls and proclaiming our natural reserves are ‘birth rights’ are all very well and good, but they don’t set out a radical enough plan to combat climate change”.
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GUEST BLOG: Donna Awatere Huata – ‘Greedy’ Boomers obliged to help fight climate change
Baby Boomers were lucky enough to live under Governments who rebuilt their societies post World War Two with the lesson of what happened if citizens weren’t protected from the sharp boom and busts of capitalism foremost in their minds. Those Governments inoculated their citizens from Fascism and Communism with a Democratic Welfare State and investment into their hopes and aspirations.
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Dr Liz Gordon – Debt as a weapon of mass destruction
The rise of high cost debt in Aotearoa is purely a response of the successive political movement to keep the bottom third of families living below the poverty line. No-one actually worried about the families at the time that Ruth Richardson’s mother of all budgets came in. The only goal of decreasing benefits then was to provide a gap between benefits and wages, so that wages could be pulled down.
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Strike at Fuji Xerox – E tū
E tū members at Fuji Xerox offices around the country will take strike action today (Monday, 25 February) in support…
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Ngā Tangata Microfinance: Unsafe credit costs far more than money – CPAG
Alarming new research from FinCap reveals the high occurrence of unsafe credit amongst those on low incomes in Aotearoa, and…
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – What Transformational Government looks like.
Labelling people socialists and communists is rife while the government starts to make the big changes that selfish, privileged nation wreckers are damned they will see happen, as long as they can enjoy the inequity of their ill gotten gains at the expense of all our great grandchildren and a more egalitarian future.
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It’s not about a bus driver shortage, it’s the way bus drivers are treated – First Union
“The government already knows the solution to the problem, they talked about it in opposition, it’s simple: scrap the PTOM…