Someone needs to sit Simon down, pour him a really strong whiskey, let him have a couple of slugs, bitch slap him with your ring finger, and state in a very clear calm manner…
7 months until the 2020 election and on the most recent polling, the next likely Government is National ACT.
The Government are woefully proceeding with the Free Speech vs Hate Speech legislation before the election and they are conducting it in secret with the Human Rights Commission…
As TDB has pointed out from the beginning, this had all the ingredients of an uncontrollable pandemic that will deeply damage the economy and create a public health nightmare.
With this Pandemic, we are about to enter a once in a generation unique crisis that will test us as a People and as a Nation.
It’s funny watching the light weight casual current affairs offerings that the deregulated infotainment industry of NZ vomit up with glee struggle to try & cover something as serious as a pandemic.
This Government was founded in 2017 under the shadow of an expected market correction so the Government does have a blueprint as to what to do if the opportunity of a crisis presents, so who should Labour save now the recession is here?
For the first time since the danger of this pandemic started to become glaringly apparent, I am feeling hopeful that this Government have urgently reset the safety parameters of this virus and are finally appreciating the enormity of what we are facing.
I had a list of things to do this week.
On top of that list was write a 1 year reflection blog on the March 15th white supremacy terror atrocity in Christchurch.
I put it off.
All week.
The results from the armed Police trial have been made public and the numbers suggest a terrifying failure of public policy.