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I am very excited that TDB will live stream the Alternative Aotearoa Election 2020 hui listening to the best progressive voices articulate policy ideas we want to see in the first 100 days of a second Labour Government.
Thanks to the joy of MMP, there are 4 combinations of Government that could generate the best and worst case scenario for progressives.
We have 7 Covid blessings, and we must acknowledge them.
Sign to have Jian Yang removed from the National Party and send a message that even if the politicians are too frightened to stand up to China and the media too timid to cover it, the ordinary citizen on the street can roar over the both of them.
We can be collectively angry at Clark for making Blomfield sad and we can be pissed off that there have been mistakes at the border, but please for the love of God understand what is at stake if we allow those frustrations to hand a win to National and ACT.
Thankfully National are so riven with betrayal and anger after the coup against Simon Bridges that they are leaking damaging info to Tova O’Brien faster than Trump running down a ramp…
You can read it here first on TDB or you can wait weeks or months until it pops up in the mainstream media.
Is it a free machine gun with every ACT Party vote?
…her legacy is one of political puppetry and malice.
It would be neat if the Greens could manage a weeks media positivity without self mutilation.