How has National become a white supremacist party in less than week?
It’s not that National are card carrying members of the KKK, it’s just that they are so privileged that they utterly fail to acknowledge ambition that isn’t white.
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It’s not that National are card carrying members of the KKK, it’s just that they are so privileged that they utterly fail to acknowledge ambition that isn’t white.
This coup inside National was driven by self interest and the fear of unemployment – as such it has no real political depth or value other than self preservation.
Please God, as one of his hidden talents, let Todd play the banjo.
…nothing screams mediocrity quite like a timid fear of offending the easily triggered.
When the best you have to defend the white loaf of bread and gallon of milk the National Party top dozen represents is ‘But Paul Goldsmith is a Māori’, you know you are in trouble.
The new welfare payment is to help newly unemployed working white people avoid the horror toxicity of dealing with WINZ because nothing fires up the volk quite like being treated as poor and brown.
Now, I don’t wish to sound cynical…
I’ve been arguing that there has been a seismic shift in the psychology of the electorate.
The power of $20B to drop between now and the election makes beating Labour almost impossible.
It feels like Hooton’s ambition has bitten off more than Muller can chew.