Why National’s $600m, 24 000 new homes in Auckland plan is pure bullshit
The grim truth about National’s latest lie on housing is just how utterly hollow the plan really is.
Martyn Bradbury
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MEDIAWATCH: Shane Jones on The AM Show threatens to nuke Northland – I’m not joking
This mornings offering managed to scrape a barrel lower than their normal standards by having Shane Jones as a guest. The Jonesy, the great waa waa of the North, the orator of Whangarei was on blowing hard on gangs boxing.
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Can we all pause and appreciate the counter productive madness of synthetic cannabis?
These 7 deaths in one month from synthetic cannabis is a failure of social policy. We either decide to have an adult discussion about drugs or we continue with the bullshit denial that is killing and maiming so many.
Wake up NZ.
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National Party Voters: An electorate or a cult? Understanding the viciousness spat at Metiria
As a small country, we have mistaken NZ as an equal country where people can freely move up through the social strata. I would suggest to you that statistic of 70% of National voters not knowing anyone unemployed actually shows that we are a highly segregated culture.
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National’s 2 Big Mac Combo tax cuts vs Labour/Green rebuild of entire social infrastructure
You can not argue there is no clear choice this election.
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Why you can’t vote NZ First if you want a change of Government
The spectacular blunder by Winston Peters (who may or may not have been advised by right wing hate merchants Simon Lusk and Cameron Slater) to set the theft of the Maori Electorate seats as a bottom line means NZ First has ruled itself out of working with the Greens and Labour.
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Congratulations NZ – our homelessness now worst in OECD – just don’t pretend to be surprised
As the homeless start to freeze to death on the streets of our main cities, we must acknowledge the brutal murder and grim burial of egalitarian NZ. The middle classes have walked away from their traditional role of holding the worst elements of the right in check at the ballot box because this right wing Government have given them a decades worth of untaxed capital gains on their properties.
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TWITTER WATCH: Winston’s new twitter storm against Metiria has to be read to be believed
Grandad is on twitter again, this time Winston’s bizarre twitter storm against Metiria has to be read to be believed…
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How on earth can Paula Bennett claim National were too slow on Housing?
…pretending to be ‘slow’ on the housing crisis would suggest they weren’t aware that they were throwing thousands of state tenants onto the streets to be looked after by the ‘market’. The ‘market’ legitimised boarding house slum lords and helps explain why 1600 NZers die from the cold each year.
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Are Cameron Slater & Simon Lusk advising NZ First?
The tip line is running hot with rumours that right wing strategists and Dirty Politics hate speech merchants Cameron Slater and Simon Lusk are helping advise the NZ First campaign.