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To assist the voting public to know what the hell is going on, TDB will be live streaming the first ‘Pub Politics’ 8pm September 2nd from Chapel Bar on Ponsonby Rd to debate the cannabis referendum.
I can not see any justification for that kind of mass surveillance and until the Intelligence Services explain why they should be entrusted with that kind of power and what the safeguards are, we should not allow them to mutate into a global Stasi.
The Greens are in survival mode for this election, if all the amazing policy ‘wins’ were so amazing why haven’t they moved in the polls for 2 years and why are they still polling less than they actually gained on election night 2017???
To date, the Left have hated the idea of using MMP the way the Right use it. That’s because the Right like to win while the Left likes to loose and whinge about how unfair it is that they lost.
There is a suggestion that Labour and NZ First are somehow not on the same page over Ihumātao. I’d suggest it’s a separation of difference that is incredibly tiny and measured in the millimetres.
Ihumātao could be the least of the Government’s problems.
After damaging the country for 9 years by underfunding all our social services and basic infrastructure, after falsely pumping the economy up by selling cheap milk powder to China and opening up the immigration taps to prop up property speculation they are still recording 45% in the polls???
SAS forces on a revenge attack, personally signed off by the Prime Minister, killed and wounded 21 civilians and the NZDF have lied throughout to hide that massacre. To now debate semantics over who they thought they could kill and who they couldn’t is a deplorable way to determine justice.
It’s difficult to imagine an MP who has been more destructive to all that is good in NZ than bloody Nathan Guy.
Brothers and sisters, I’m pretty old fashioned when it comes to abortion rights. Would I, as a male, accept some bullshit grovelling process where I have to beg 2 doctors to give me a medical procedure because I’m mentally frail?