Haka political theatre in Parliament – Winners & Losers
Last weeks Haka political theatre in Parliament had a number of political winners and losers.
Martyn Bradbury
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Judith vs Jacinda over Willow-Jean Prime
Labour need to avoid the Kavanaugh effect and remind WJP that this isn’t Twitter thread hashtag politics and she’s only handing National culture war ammunition.
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Congratulations to Damien Grant – why Corrections must tour him though prisons
At a time when cancel culture is so prevalent and toxic, winning the right to be redeemable is an important lesson in earnt mercy.
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Waatea News Column: The hypocrisy of National’s fear mongering over Maori
The desperation driving Judith Collins in her attempt to bring back to life the ghost of Don Brash’s Orewa Speech by consistently referring to co-governance as ‘Separatism’ and ‘Segregation’ is not only ugly and disingenuous, it flies in the face of National’s own history of co-governance with Māori.
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MEDIAWATCH: Masked Union Official sings the Pay Freeze Blues with Hooton on harmony
Hoots doesn’t believe my suggestion that Labour strategists were smart enough to use the pay freeze to slip past the Fair Pay Agreement last week, but then again Hoots thought Todd Muller was a smart choice for National Party Leader so his Machiavellian radar might be off a tad.
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MEDIAWATCH: Wow – the Woke cancelled Ellen
There is something very ugly and lynch mob like about all of this and it’s a glimpse into a puritanical Woke future that makes The Handmaid’s Tale seem liberal.
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Ousting of Liz Cheney proves Republicans are now a Cult
It feels like a prequel to the Handmaid’s Tale.
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Labour: Middle class party pills sweet as, working class cannabis bad
Labour have to show the same leadership for working class cannabis as they have on middle class drugs like Party Pills.
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Omnicide Capitalism is destroying the planet
This isn’t democracy, this is a feudal plutocracy on a burning Earth
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We can’t keep exploiting migrants for economic growth!
Exploitation corrodes all it touches.