…the insane heat in Australia, the extreme weather events we are seeing here in NZ, the speeding up of melting glaciers and a North Pole facing hurricane winds spiking temperatures up in ways not witnessed before, this is global warming. This is what happens when you pump pollution into the environment without an sense of self control.
Yes the Labour and Greens were there in huge numbers showing the real, authentic and genuine support they have for the rainbow community, but in a week when Bill was on stage shearing sheep, all he had to do was make an appearance at the BGO to show that as PM he can at least tolerate being around the LGBTQ community
The mere sight of the headscarf that identified them as Muslim was enough for this torrent of rage and fury to erupt at innocent people just going about their day. This wasn’t the deep South, this wasn’t the hinterlands of nowhere, it’s bloody Huntly, barely an hour outside of Auckland, our largest metropolitan and cosmopolitan city.
This is how you win elections. The working class, the poor and migrant communities who bear the brunt of societal crime want to have their genuine fears addressed and a well known cop like O’Connor gives them the sense that their fears are being represented.
The numerous allegations swirling over why Key really stood down and when they will finally come to light are questions everyone wants answered.
The question is how much the LGBTQ community are prepared to be used by a Prime Minister who has built his political career on demonising them and denying them basic human rights. He voted against same sex marriage, civil unions, prostitution reform and attempted to force NZ only to accept a definition of heterosexual marriage. Add in the hate he has for women attempting to gain safe and legal abortion and Bill English is a hard right Christian with all the compassion of Donald Trump on a bad hair day.
…the middle class Labour Youth (The ‘Purifiers’), the middle class Wellington Union Comms cliques and the Identitarians won’t like it, but working class men and urban Maori who have felt alienated by these types see Little staring that faction down and pushing Willie Jacksons candidacy as a new welcome mat into the Party.
It seems sick in the extreme that anyone would take time out of their day to actively mock and denigrate human beings who have been cheated, manipulated and lied, but here they are.
This is the great grumpy man of NZ Blogging, Lynn Prentice over at The Standard mauling someone who has disagreed with him about Poto Williams.