Gutting one of NZs biggest suicide counselling lines at a time of spiking suicide to give the contract to Bill English’s wife isn’t just ‘bad optics’ it’s a lack of perspective that screams arrogance at such a frequency that it shatters the eyeballs in their sockets.
…if it’s a rockstar economy, it’s an acoustic performance on invisible guitars.
The Media’s current ‘what if Jacinda is PM & gets pregnant’ is only a step away from ‘What happens if she has a period while PM’. Is this the fucking 21st Century or not? How can those questions lead the debate? Seeing as Bill English is an anti-abortion radical right catholic who has 6 kids, shouldn’t media be asking if he’s breeding next?
People on Facebook have asked me to give them a really easy run down of the policies of the main parties, so here they are –
Seeing as Bill English is an anti-abortion radical right catholic who has 6 kids, shouldn’t media be asking if he’s breeding next?
This extraordinary revelation actually highlights every fear we as activists have claimed could occur. This means everything the GCSB is spying on is completely open to the NSA to access as well.
Bill English has attempted to hide his involvement, hide his knowledge of what he knew, and hide when he knew it throughout this Barclay fiasco.
My conclusion 2 months out is that everything has changed for this election. Jacinda’s performance today was super nova, the Greens have won their mojo and for the first time in a very long time I am genuinely hopeful we could see something unique here, not just an accidental win or a calculated math trick – we could have a progressive political vision sold with passion.
Look, folks, I don’t want to sound critical – lordy no not I, but isn’t the obviousness of what’s behind dumping the Decile system really, really, really scary and could lead to such extreme surveillance of the individual that the Decile system is preferable because it won’t damage the vulnerable kids it’s aimed at?
What’s that weird, totally unfamiliar feeling I’m feeling watching Jacinda Ardern take over Labour?
Hope.