Terrible story in the ODT about the lived experiences of refugees felling to NZ to live as beneficiaries, only to realise that NZers fucking hate beneficiaries…
I was genuinely shocked at the low level of General Knowledge we seem to collectively have – I didn’t even think any of this was ‘knowledge’, just basic basic basic facts – “Is Winston Churchill a real person’ – I mean, WTF?
I think I’m done with Labour.
Their response to our neoliberal public service is MORE neoliberalism???
There are two issues with Ihumātao, one is a wider existential issue and the other is Realpolitik.
If NZ First has broken the law, throw the book at NZ First, but I remember recently when the media were breathlessly insinuating that the Prime Minister not only knew about a serious sexual assault but that she had actively covered it up
This realisation that large corporations operating for regimes that aren’t democratic could buy strategic assets is the sudden reason why new regulations are being finally applied to overseas investment…
So how does Labour trick the bigoted sleepy hobbits of Muddle Nu Zilind into agreeing to a lift in welfare payments without the bigoted sleepy hobbits of Muddle Nu Zilind losing their shit?
We suspect that National MPs are all climate deniers, Pugh suggests they are climate morons.
Ever since Chloe triggered snowflake baby boomers with her ‘Ok Boomer’ burn in Parliament, pundits have flocked to defend or attack each generation. What is most interesting is that none of these opinions acknowledge the fundamental difference between Boomers and everyone else – neoliberalism!
If a University refuses to fulfil this obligation to Society, then they shouldn’t get public funding!