Political Caption Competition
Once again it will require red and green to solve a blue problem
Author: The Daily Blog
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 17th September 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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16 Political Decisions that show National don’t care about the environment
16 Political Decisions that show National don’t care about the environment
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Jacinda Ardern – Setting the record straight on National’s tax scaremongering
Jacinda Ardern – Setting the record straight on National’s tax scaremongering
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VOTE!
IF, ON ELECTION NIGHT 2017, you end up staring at the numbers in horrified disbelief. If National proves the people at Reid Research are the best pollsters in the business. If the Jacinda Train runs out of puff several percentage-points short of being able to form a government. If the Greens: the dear, earnest, tree-hugging Greens; fall below the 5 percent MMP threshold. If, after all these calamities, you’re casting about in your anger and your grief for an explanation, then reclaim from the back of your mind this crucial piece of information from Elections New Zealand.
As at 15 September, just over a week out from Election Day, “nearly 20,000 fewer young people under 30 [have] registered compared with 2014”.
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Little chance of system change, but change in government is a good place to start
For those of us who also want a more fundamental change than just rearranging the parliamentary seating order, and minor changes by degrees, in some ways, hope competes with despair. I’d like to take a vote on neo-liberalism itself but it’s not even on the agenda.
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Political Caption Competition
Why Young Nats are virgins into their mid 20s
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Saturday 16th September 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Disgraceful description of health and safety as “overkill” – CTU
The Council of Trade Unions is appalled that an Auckland accounting business has described health and safety as “overkill”. Reckon…
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Harsh punishments on sole parents fuel child poverty – Child Poverty Action Group
Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) says that urgently removing Sections 176, 177, 178 from the Social Security Legislation Rewrite Bill…