Martyn Bradbury

What most commentators have failed to grasp is that National didn’t offer any real new policy because they don’t have to.

National desperately want to revive the Hobbit Law victory they had last time against Actors Equity that delivered John Key such an enormous political victory.

Much has been written in scorn of the Greens somehow losing their moral and ethical compass in supporting the waka jumping legislation.

I am not one of them.

It’s been an interesting conference and I think some of the surface headlines suggest deeper moves we aren’t picking up on.

Charter Schools always seemed to be a solution searching for a problem.

The Woke Left would protest the Vagina Monologues for not being sensitive enough to women without vaginas. It’s like a Spinoff TV dinner party where Simon Wilson has just finished a 5 hour powerpoint presentation on the importance of cycle lanes while you’re stuck between Lizzie Marvelly and Toby Manhire arguing over who hates men most and who can firebomb the Pop-Up Globe fastest. You can’t get to a democratic majority of 51% if people suspect you want to legislate infant girls being gifted anything pink as a hate crime.

We got trolled by two right wing Trolls and the very foundations of our liberal progressive democracy shuddered.