Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
Remember the context here, National were busy trying to privatise state housing, so this constant media attention on dirty filthy druggie bennies contaminating good solid taxpayer built state houses was a PR coup from heaven for National.
The simple, awful truth, is that until white middle class kids are killed in a police chase, nothing will change.
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.
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.