Last week Simon Bridges was attacking slushies this week Paula Bennett is raging against cannabis gummy bears
The simple truth is that the National Party are being dicks about the Cannabis referendum.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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Why being Carbon Neutral by 2050 is meaningless
Being soft on methane is such a spineless move for a sunset industry like dairy who even in their death throws of being economically viable in the wake of synthetic meat and milk still manage to drag our collective feet on any meaningful legislation.
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The remarkable Leadership of Kiri Allan
I am an enormous fan of Labour MP Kiri Allan.
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If this is the year of delivery, do Labour, NZ First & the Greens understand the word delivery?
I have argued many times that this Government wasn’t expecting to win and so walked into Government with no actual plan of what the hell to do and how to reform the neoliberal public service enough to force change through. What we are seeing is a civil service fair more interested in doing nothing than being forced to do something and so work to water down any real reform so they can keep control of their fiefdoms, with many of the new Ministers unfamiliar with Executive power, they have been easily sidelined or manipulated into stagnation.
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If this Carbon Zero legislation was our generations ‘nuclear moment’, America just parked a nuclear ship next to David Lange’s grave and rolled all over him
This is less transformative and more glacial, except there won’t be any glaciers by 2050.
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Yawn – Cannabis referendum is out and surprise surprise, it’s not binding
Looking at the way this Government gave up on a Capital Gains Tax, censored Māori voices in the mental health inquiry, denied Afghan witnesses to participate in our war crime whitewash and seemingly gave up on any meaningful welfare reform, my blackened jaded heart sees this as another window dressing exercise to look like progress is being made when sweet bugger all is actually being progressed.
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If we wish to combat climate change, we must defeat neoliberal capitalism: Trade Crucifixions, Dairy as a sunset industry & Fortress Aotearoa
A climate changing world will descend into chaos, NZ will be one of the few lifeboats available, we need to rapidly adapt with foresight before we are forced to blindly adapt because of necessity.
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Dear Labour, Greens & NZ First – you’ve whimped out on CGT, meaningful welfare reforms, censored Maori voices from mental health & wont interview Afghan survivors from our war crimes but sweet Jesus if you deny us legal weed I’m going to loose my shit
When Andrew Little is having to redefine what the word ‘binding’ means, you know we are fucked…
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Political Ramifications of Jacinda’s wedding (why Simon Bridges is safe as leader now)
The only way Simon Bridges could counter this is by personally entering Pike River Mine and finding the Ark of the Covenant while healing sick children.
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Finally something to cheer from Labour (warning – it’s tiny but what else do we have?)
Luckily for the Government they have a wedding to plan and the middle classes attention will quickly slip away from their egalitarian pretensions to what wedding dress designer Jacinda will be wearing.