The Housing Crisis is still paying political dividends to National as the property speculating middle classes continue to back Bill English, but if Millennials and Gen Xers turn up angry at the polls, it could spell an end to National’s dream of a fourth term.
I think it tells us something about the failing landscape of journalism in NZ that the National Party can make hard right ideological decisions confronting the nation, and there isn’t the intellectual depth within our Press Gallery to even recognise and call it out.
It is insane that we can live in a country where there is a bloody investigation over how a drug dog was shot at Auckland airport but there won’t be an investigation into serious war crime allegations.
That’s not a solution, that’s a suicide note to sovereignty. Sometimes pragmatism has its limits and agreeing to property bubble migration settings to justify rupturing our domestic engineering market seems to be that limit.
The problem with the Green’s democratic process is that candidates start sucking up to the members which creates an insular list of people wanted by the members, but can’t select candidates who will win over voters.
CYFs has been remodelled 14 times before this, watching the mainstream media pundits faithfully do their sympathetic head nodding bullshit as the latest bureaucrat is wheeled out to promise a better future, as was seen on The Nation this weekend, is probably the most sickening part of this masquerade.
The most amazing part of the discussion was how the mainstream media pundits and TVNZ staff refused point blank to consider that the Gen X and Millennial disgust and aversion of politics is a perfectly normal and rational response to the out right greed and contempt of the current political landscape because of neoliberalism.
It is now up to the media to rip the NZDF to pieces. They’ve lied to you as much as they have lied to the people of NZ, surely you can’t let them lie directly to your faces and you’ll just accept it?
Winston is blowing so many dog whistles at once of late that it may as well be a dog bagpipe.
He’s going to starve his brain of any oxygen if he keeps going.
Look at the NZ media elites joyfully declaring the Commerce Commission has gutlessly been bullied by mainstream corporate media threats into flipping on their decision to stop their Newspaper Monopoly…