English is ramming through hard right doctrine to appease his angry right wing God. He is killing off secular Government obligations which he sees are sinful by pretending to resource only the truly needy. It’s a clever way to fool people, but it’s simply making the neoliberal welfare state even more punishing and more draconian.
My childhood was shaped by Footrot Flats. Every year in the stocking would be the annual Footrot Flats compilation – every summer I would feast on Ball’s rural farming fantasy world, giggling my way through his interpretation of what being a Kiwi was.
By proposing a change in 20 years time, English has managed to do 3 brilliant things.
To ignore neoliberalism when trying to understand the generational differences is like trying to see a rainbow in only black and white.
The thing that is most concerning about all this abuse using tasers is that the rules on taser use are incredibly clear, a Police Officer can only use a taser if a person has a weapon on them and are threatening use of it against the Police or other people.
David Seymour, the Leader of the hard right political party ACT, chose to celebrate International Women’s Day in NZs Parliament in an interesting manner…
Congratulations to Jan Logie and the Green Party for getting their law to give domestic violence survivors and whanau paid and unpaid leave for domestic violence through to its first stage in Parliament.
To be honest I bit my tongue at the time and waited for the giants of our media landscape to step forward and say something. Because you know, what happened was terrible and it demanded a response that had all our Journalistic best and brightest lining up to turn attention onto what occurred and to denounce it in no uncertain language.
Surely the NZ Government has to assure us the people that the surveillance powers they are about to grant the GCSB and the SIS can’t be misused by foreign spy powers, otherwise everything they are gathering is effectively intelligence for the Americans.
Jacinda appeals directly to the generation who don’t vote and she has built a huge social media presence. Andrew Little is not so shallow and needy that he has any problem sharing the lime light to reach out to electorates Labour have lost.