Welfare reforms have not occurred – it’s still toxic. Is the politics of kindness hollow?
…if only this Government could protect the users of welfare services as much as they do the staff of these services.
Martyn Bradbury
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WARNING: Events dear boy, events – where is Nashy & Jonsey?
There are events that manage to crystallise a deeper rage and explode in a way few predict. Brash’s manufactured Orewa Speech, the ignorant madness towards the repeal of section 59 and the backlash against Kim Dotcom’s Moment of Truth are all perfect examples of this.
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Waitangi Day 2019 – With Brash going, could it explode?
Waitangi 2019 has no obvious fuse to it, but there is a cocktail of things that combined could become very unstable very quickly.
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The real purpose of the Blue Greens and New Conservatives
Pundits are missing the real point of the Blue Greens and the New Conservatives and the behind the scenes support both political embryos are getting from National.
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Is this Kate Hawkseby’s worst column ever?
…I thought Kate’s hateful attack on a garden in a prison and her weird attack on Meghan Markle were pretty awful columns, but basing an entire one on what MPs wore at a retreat seems so shallow it’s difficult to do anything other than mock it.
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Donald Trump doesn’t understand climate change or global warming
This would be funny if it weren’t so dangerous because I’ve seen clowns across social media claiming that because America is gripped in a frozen storm that global warming isn’t happening.
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Changing Kiwibuild targets unacceptable sophistry & privatisation of state housing a slap in the face
If only Kiwibuild was a pyramid scheme, at least that way we would have pyramids for people to live in
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Yawn – Simon Bridges promises less than a weekly Big Mac Combo in tax cuts
When in doubt, promise a meaningless tax cut…
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Thank the little baby Jesus no one has noticed Labour’s grotesque crony capitalism hypocrisy
When National bent over backwards for Peter Jackson by handing over millions in corporate welfare to corporate Hollywood and changed our employment law, Labour screamed it was ‘crony capitalism’.
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MEDIA WATCH: Big Dairy Water Propaganda is world class
…that’s right folks, Dairy doesn’t shit into our rivers or steal our water! They didn’t get National to privatise 49% of our state owned energy assets to create an irrigation slush fund worth $400million to convert as many square inches of NZ into intensified dairy farms! No, they create a miracle juice that helps the sick and needy while keeping our rivers clean.