Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
It’s lovely watching Labour’s proxies scramble to repair the damage they caused themselves by not talking to their own Maori Caucus about their list appointments even their Chief of Staff is on Twitter trying to tell anyone who would listen that this represents a great step forward for Maori…
It was J Day this weekend. I appeared at 3.30pm to give a speech to the cannabis brothers and sisters and I pointed out that the greatest symbol of just how gutless our political establishment is on cannabis reform can be summed up by the following shocking revelation – the only way we are going to legalise cannabis with a regulated and taxed market is through NZ First.
I believe that the National Government are so ideologically driven that they will lie, manipulate and actively falsify any statistic to hide the failure of their social experiments. Here are 5 examples of the National Government manipulating statistics to hide their failure.
The sick joke of security incompetence from our mass surveillance State spying apparatus was on full display last week…
If the white working poor of New Zealand understood how much they have to lose under National, Labour could gain traction. By not explaining this impact, Labour look like they stand for nothing different.
It says something about us as a culture that we only sense Australia is screwing us when they stop middle class education tax breaks, what about when they fucking export a crime wave to our nation?
The astounding decision by the National Government to quietly dump reoffending rates as a measurement of the private prison empire they have built was another sad moment in the failed neoliberal social experiments the National Party champion…
…the only guiding principle of Landcorp in this issue has been making the most money, as if the pennies that can be created today justify the loss of the land for the future. Our economic sovereignty can not be maintained if we sell our most productive land to overseas investors, it’s as simple as that.
The simple truth is that most of our welfare agencies are now staffed by people without the necessary compassion skills to do anything useful in the lives of our most vulnerable. If beneficiaries really wanted to vent their fury at the manner in which WINZ staff treat them, then they could do that with a vandalisation campaign this year.
Following up on my 6 months out from the election analysis, here’s the run down 5 months out.