The irony is that the same people who were using anonymous sourced accusations to crucify JLR are the same ones demanding no questions now he’s been sectioned – this is so Kafkaesque it’s Orwellian.
…soooooooo in light of recent events shouldn’t we be rethinking our relationship with the Saudis? I get the line that is trotted out by MFAT Goons, ‘if we only traded with people we agreed with, we wouldn’t trade with anyone’, and I appreciate the need to build up trade, buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut….
National’s economic ‘plan’ was based on rebuilding from natural disasters, massive levels of immigration, dairy intensification to China and a speculative property bubble that conned the middle classes into thinking they were paper millionaires. This fake growth required a subset of workers who were more exploitable than the domestic labour market would provide, hence all these bullshit education programs tied into employment exploitation.
No one is coming out of this unscathed but it has cemented into place Jacinda’s call for a politics of kindness, because the politics of anger and spite serves no master other than discord and implosion.
Labour would be sobbing if they hadn’t gained from this meltdown, so they are the anchor party here, the danger for Simon now is what happens when JLR can get himself out of the mental health hospital he’s been sectioned to.
Marae TV asked my thoughts on being Pakeha, here they were…
We are in incredibly dangerous waters now. I think it is of the highest importance that IF JLR has been forcibly taken into mental health custody that decision be reviewed immediately to ensure that a terrible wrong hasn’t just occurred.
The problem with alienating woke identity politics is that when you are barely staying above the 5% threshold, I’m not sure that’s the smartest tactic, but then again when it comes to strategy, the Greens have all the vision of a blind Cyclops.
One of the most interesting things about the remarkable revelations in the current civil war inside National was how a former Communist Party leader now based in New Zealand attempted to buy two Chinese MPs to put on National’s Party list.
Ok, so let’s just see if we can keep up with Saudi Arabia’s ever changing story regarding the death of Washington Post Journalist, Jamal Khashoggi.