Jacinda makes second strategic blunder of Election 2020 by ruling out using MMP strategically
Simon Bridges kicked things off yesterday by making the first strategic blunder of the 2020 election by going waaaaaaay too early in ruling NZ First out.
Martyn Bradbury
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TV REVIEW: Breakfast TVNZ – Jacinda flushes away election & defends right wing experiment in welfare
Jacinda was on TVNZ Breakfast this morning and astonishingly stated that she wouldn’t consider doing an electorate deal with NZ First and the Greens.
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Mike Moore 1949-2020: Working class battler to neoliberal architect
One of the original members of the Fish n Chip Brigade that built the neoliberal NZ we know today has passed.
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NZ Government blocks travellers from mainland China
In a move that increasingly shows how serious this situation is becoming, NZ has announced the blocking of travellers from mainland China…
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Simon Bridges makes first strategic blunder of Election 2020 by ruling NZ First out now
Simon Bridges has made the announcement today that he is ruling out cutting a deal with NZ First post the 2020 election.
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Trump’s Impeachment defence shows a Party Intellectually held hostage & degraded by an orange fascist
The Republican Party is held hostage by Trump’s egregious corruption and toxic self-aggrandisement. For them to intellectually lower the bar so low is not the philosophy of supporters, it is the mantra of the hostage.
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Will the infrastructure investment help Labour? Probably not, but it won’t help National either & why Beneficiaries and Gangs should be most terrified
Watching National & Labour sock puppets on social media arguing over who is going to build the most roads only highlights the low horizon imagination NZ politics has descended into.
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Let’s honestly talk about why benefit numbers and food grants are going up under Labour
In 2016, John Key was in a bit of a pickle.
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The Age of the Cage & Aquarium: Why the Wuhan Virus and Australian fires are our climate crisis future
As over population and depletion of the natural resources continues at pace, novel virus outbreaks will start becoming the norm not the exception.
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Waatea News Column: Marama Davidson’s Tamaki Makaurau attempt a chance for the Māori Party
One of the problems for the Green Party is that it is essentially a middle class party focused on alienating Identity Politics over and above the actual environment. This locks them into a very white electorate so on first blush, Marama Davidson’s declaration today to make a serious run at winning Tāmaki Makaurau makes sense as the Greens attempt to appeal outside their white middle class voter base.