Metiria falls on her pen, not Mike Hosking’s sword
Thank God for that, Metiria is not falling on Mike Hosking’s or Patrick Gower’s sword and resigning, she has fallen on her pen and ruled herself out from a Ministerial role in the next Government.
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Thank God for that, Metiria is not falling on Mike Hosking’s or Patrick Gower’s sword and resigning, she has fallen on her pen and ruled herself out from a Ministerial role in the next Government.
The double standards of journalism on display here attacking Metiria for events 2 decades old when we have actual abuses of real political power sitting naked without any investigation by the Newshub says more about the kind of ethically bankrupt watchdogs running that news service than it does about Metiria.
Her courage for speaking up about how the purposely spiteful system forced her to cheat to feed her child 25 years ago has resonated with beneficiaries everywhere as the enormity of how cruel the MSD really is becomes public.
We have all waited for this report, that it’s been hidden is unbelievable. It doesn’t matter if Matthews left and wasn’t given a severance package, that is simply a by-product of the report, we all need to see it!
Allowing the NZ Government to spy on you for ‘terrorism’ purposes is one thing, allowing the fucking NSA to have that same power over all of us is an act of Treason!
Gutting one of NZs biggest suicide counselling lines at a time of spiking suicide to give the contract to Bill English’s wife isn’t just ‘bad optics’ it’s a lack of perspective that screams arrogance at such a frequency that it shatters the eyeballs in their sockets.
…if it’s a rockstar economy, it’s an acoustic performance on invisible guitars.
People on Facebook have asked me to give them a really easy run down of the policies of the main parties, so here they are –
This extraordinary revelation actually highlights every fear we as activists have claimed could occur. This means everything the GCSB is spying on is completely open to the NSA to access as well.
Bill English has attempted to hide his involvement, hide his knowledge of what he knew, and hide when he knew it throughout this Barclay fiasco.