Economic growth under National relied on a speculative property bubble, rebuilding from natural disasters and mass immigration, that’s all that kept the GDP inflated and ‘rock star’ like. Low business confidence is proof that fake growth model is over and the business community know it.
Chelsea Manning exposed war crimes, Molyneux and Southern peddle petty psudeo-science bigotry, for National to champion one and damn the other is hypocrisy of the worst kind!
National just needs a simple 51% majority of Caucus for a spill. How many look trust worthy in this picture?
First of all, why the Christ is this being called a ‘Paedophile village’? It immediately scares the living bejesus out of locals and sets the nation at unease. It suggests a malignant tumour of a community that must be treated with the same mercy as you treat cancer, i.e. none at all.
‘Paedophile village’ is the very worst of the mainstream media selling clickbait.
Why not call it ‘Utter-failure-of-social-policy village’? Because that is truly what this represents.
The refusal to ever acknowledge that the 30 year neoliberal experiment in society, culture and economics has reaped a bitter harvest of mostly men who are so alienated from themselves that their loneliness and grief swamp the daybreak of the present.
This is a ticking time bomb now and the National Party MP either steps down themselves to end this or Bridges pushes ahead, outs the MP himself and then risks that MP hurting themselves.
Fresh from mutilating the free speech debate, martyring Don Brash and promoting crypto-fascists, the Woke Left descended upon the recent Justice Summit with all the nuance of a grenade going off in a kindergarten.
I think we fail to acknowledge the stresses and depression that grip many men in their 40s because we believe it’s solely a youth issue. Men in their 40s need as much support and help as they can access, unfortunately the run down mental health system in this country is effectively broken.
The Justice Conference has wrapped up and it is a relief to see that the madness of our prison industrial complex is finally being challenged by some genuine political courage.
This is an area of social policy that I have been passionate about for a very long time. I do believe you judge a society on how they treat their least respected and the way we treat prisoners should be a national scandal.
Nothing seems to sum up the counter productive nature of our neoliberal welfare system quite as powerfully as the madness of this case…