This isn’t a ‘blunder’ – it’s the truth about a civil service that has become uncivil. About public services that are supposed to be the bastions of egalitarianism essential to a progressive liberal democracy mutating into the cruelest of torture devices used by the State to keep the poor too terrified to fight back.
It’s always funny how it’s supposed to be Maori who just roll over and have their private property taken off them for the benefit of the public
The fundamental problem of engagement in local democracy comes down to the grim reality that most of the democracy at a local level is a facade.
The new TVNZ Breakfast Team look like they are insurance brokers for a new company that gets most of its new client enrolments at malls…
From Paul Henry in the morning to Mike Hosking at night with a merged right wing newspaper monopoly in the middle. An unbroken chorus of neoliberal mythology masquerading as successful fact.
We have become a one media state.
…so it was an encouraging and female friendly environment where Scarlette performed graphic acts for the lads in a really pro-feminist setting?
What’s uglier? The Spinoff fawning over their exclusive relationship with the Real Housewives of Auckland or the NZ Herald’s?
That it’s taken almost 2 centuries for us to discuss how racist the system of NZ really is should be the shocking part of this issue.
I know, I know – never count your chickens before they hatch, but in this case the chickens have all moved over seas after completing PHDs at University and are now thinking about tax haven retirement options.
We have a Minister for Women who hates women. We have a Minister for State Housing who hates state housing. We have a Minister of Housing who hates affordable housing. We have an Education Minister who hates Education. We have a Minister for Christchurch who hates Christchurch. We have a Minister for Public Broadcasting that hates public broadcasting. We have a Minister for Health who can’t eat the food in public. We have a Minister of Youth affairs who has gutted the department by 50% while youth suicide and unemployment soar. We have a Environment Minister who hates the Environment and we have a Minister of Welfare who despises beneficiaries.