In 2014, NZers shrugged over dirty politics & mass surveillance lies & voted in National to protect their speculative property bubble wealth, so as a progressive, to be where we are with Labour + Greens + NZ First being the majority, that’s a major victory.
Negotiating a Government requires extreme skill and the way you start will be the way you run.
Seeing as Paula Bennett has a history of abusing her position to get personal information of beneficiaries and making them public, how did she get people’s phone numbers to text them?
The very first thing the Labour Party needs to do is push for mass sackings within the Public Service so that these sadists can be flushed out of the system. Yes the policy is abusive but this is a toxic culture problem as well.
After original claims that Kauri poachers were involved in damaging Auckland’s oil line as ‘fake news’ MPI have admitted that there were Kauri poachers in the area…
The National Government are as dependent on their Chinese friends as the entire economy now has become.
National have done everything to hide how underfunded our health system has become, and look at this tactic…
Our neoliberal cultural mythology states that if you succeed you do so as an individual so all your success is your own, likewise if you fail that’s all your fault as well.
Somehow, my modest wee Mt Eden rental has ended up in the electorate of Epsom, and as much as I detest National, I can not articulate my animosity towards fucking ACT.
The only hope left for us as a society are the youth voters who are slowly waking to the horror of the neoliberal debt cage that user pays culture are locking them into. This election isn’t about just who wins on Saturday, it’s about the soul of us as a country and it will answer the question – did the 30 year neoliberal experiment brainwash enough of us to deny us any hope?