Remember, anyone in a State House where meth was tested was not only kicked out of the State House, they were banned from any State House for 12 months – how many lives did National fuck up and make homeless because of this moral panic?
If you honestly think punching a handcuffed 13 year old and arresting him for not wearing a bike helmet is appropriate policing – then maybe you are the problem?
I suggest that voting National is less a political choice and is now a gated cultural cult fuelled by resentment and not ideology.
Last night Simon Bridges acknowledged for the first time that National were actively seeking a new Ally Party to help National take power in 2020.
TDB has been pointing this strategy out for over 3 months.
…the simple truth is that the current political offerings within the NZ political spectrum can not and will not put the NZ economy on the war footing required to adapt fast enough for catastrophic climate change.
WINSTON PETERS had better have something up his sleeve – preferably an ace – or things are going to get messy. Reviewing the latest poll from Newshub/Reid Research, the thought must surely have crossed the NZ First leader’s mind: “Did Jacinda play me?” Because, it is almost impossible to imagine a politician as experienced as Peters agreeing to install such a potentially unstable combination as the Labour-NZF-Green government without first being convinced that Jacinda was genuinely committed to New Zealand’s economic and social transformation.
Just like Clare Curran’s sad panel with no real mana to change public broadcasting, the new welfare advisory panel has been announced and it’s missing some crucial voices.
The Government needs a far better communications plan, their selling of the budget was woeful, and they need to put together a strategy to ram through public service reform so that they can actually get policy adopted rather than resisted.
The problem of having power defined by convention is if you get an individual who isn’t prepared to follow that convention.
There is a real danger now that this will be a one term Government, if Judith takes power, the plan is to unleash a right wing anger which will be extreme. No one on our side of the political fence has any comprehension of what is building.