Annette King stands down – find out the reasons why
TDB pointed out this would happen on Monday and we explained the internal tensions that were building for it to happen…
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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Blaming stoners for mass immigration is like down grading your water quality and calling it ‘swimmable’
National need huge migration numbers to prop up the property bubble and require tens of thousands of exploitable migrant workers to keep labour costs down. Blaming mass immigration and cheap labour exploitation on Kiwis smoking weed is like downgrading your water quality and renaming it ‘swimmable’.
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Hypocrisy of ACTs Prisoner Reforms
So after building the Prison Empire that we now suffer under, ACT have decided the skyrocketing prison population is a damaging social cancer and are suggesting if Prisoners learn reading or writing the will get an early release.
Lovely to see ACT come out of the dark ages.
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On ‘flushing out the homeless’ and stoner workers necessitating mass immigration
As for his claim that we need to import all this cheap and exploitable migrant labour because NZ stoners keep failing their drug tests, let’s remember that in 2015, 8000 beneficiaries were sent for drug testable jobs, and how many fails were there?
22 fails.
Out of 8000 drug testable jobs.
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National use beneficiaries in motels in Tourism statistics
Throwing beneficiaries off welfare but not knowing where they are going, downgrading water quality and redefining it as ‘swimmable’ and now using beneficiaries in motels in the tourism stats?
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How the Left win in September? It’s easy – give voters a reason to hope and policy that gives real actions
The Left must do more than not offend people if they want to be the Government. They have to offer hope and vision, and while affordable housing, education/health and some tough on crime rhetoric is all fine and dandy, it does nothing to inspire those living with the grim realities of debt and everyday life.
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What would replacing King with Ardern mean for Labour?
Since it’s being discussed by the punditry, what would replacing King with Ardern mean for Labour?
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Huge blowout in emergency housing further evidence of how out of touch National are with real NZ
National need to look like they are doing something about the Housing Crisis without actually fixing it because they are dependent on paper millionaire middle class property speculators to keep voting for them and because National desperately need to keep the false economic growth numbers looking good.
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The Horror of CYFs exposed once again
Talk to anyone dealing with CYFs and they complain that CYFs are useless at finding safe whanau for children at risk. This is because people go out of their way to not be contacted by state agencies because these neoliberal welfare agencies are seen as the enemy.
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Red Landslide swallow Greens – Mt Albert by-election 2017: Winners & Losers & General Election Ramifications
The weakness of the Greens tonight for one of their star candidates will mean they will have real problems with Labour come the election.