What might save Labour from Grant Robertson’s intellectual caution is the type of event Orr is desperately attempting to insulate NZs economy from.
Currently right wing NZ activists are filming themselves entering book stores to turn a biography about Ardern around and are loading it onto twitter using the hash tag #turnardern
We should collectively be righteously appalled at the tone deaf ODT cartoon that made light of the terrible measles epidemic that has killed over 50 children in Samoa. It was an ugly ‘joke’ that shouted white privilege, but calls to boycott the ODT, sack the cartoonist and the enormous social media wave of fury seem to me to be grotesquely misplaced.
Poor old bloody Chris Faafoi, trying to help a mate in a situation he’s personally aware of is unfair and what happens? The mate he’s trying to help turns on him and in a tantrum looks like he’s handed over all their private messages to the media.
6 months ago the Cannabis referendum looked like it would die before it could be harvested.
I think the BSA needs to reflect on this ruling because it’s pretty outrageous to say it and even more outrageous to shrug over its use.
Woods has received an enormous amount of criticism for winning the nomination at 17, but if we are truly a representative democracy then 18 year olds have the right to represent and be represented.
Simon Bridges is desperately attempting to remain politically relevant in the cannabis debate after the Government blindsided National with a clearly defined referendum question and a clear set of guidelines to a regulated Cannabis market…
…when the enormity of what we are facing dawns on more and more NZers, spilled symbolic molasses will be the least of Simon’s concerns.
National’s argument is that a policy of constant harassment coupled with ‘offramps’ that help family and associates leave the Gang is the perfect combination of carrot and stick.