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As for the 50 000 children National have thrown off welfare, no one knows where they are or what they are now doing. Bill English trumpets dumping 25% of sole parents off welfare without knowing where they are now as a triumph. All National have perfected are neoliberal welfare agencies who delight in cutting off benefits for any reason they can.
So Dunne has rolled out his attempt to inoculate the fury at his decision to make Helen Kelly suffer and be a criminal in her final days of life.
And it’s such a scam.
Here’s the truth.
The real issue however is that he clearly hasn’t thought through this agenda when it comes to Radio NZ – threatening to sell RNZ off when it’s seen as the last jewel in a rusted broadcasting crown to an electorate like Mt Albert is on par with strangling a cat on Dominion Road.
All National are doing here is allowing those large Pharmaceutical Corporations to make even more money by selling a product that is inferior to what you can just grow, but because what Labour and the Greens were offering is so meaningless National’s decision looks like a huge step.
How these Identitarians expect to win an election if they can’t bring Maori working class men and women alongside with them is beyond me. They all sound like fanatical Hillary Clinton supporters more interested in purifying their safe hug space than fighting National and winning.
2016 was shocking politically, economically, socially and culturally. We lost an enormous amount of thinkers and artists when we seem to need them the most. I think 2017 has the potential however to be far worse than 2016 in three crucial areas.
…by harnessing social media, Trump and his big data manipulators know exactly which phrase to use and which tone to use it in to resonate with the fears and angers within the minimum electorate majority he requires to keep power.
The last 24 hours has seen an explosion of Professional Twitter Liberals making all types of vile character assassinations against Willie Jackson
Waitangi Day is our national day to pause and check whether the Government of NZ, the Crown if you will, are living up to their obligations to all those who are party to the Treaty – Maori, Pakeha and all those who call New Zealand home.
So far, Bill English’s secret weapon, the People’s Front of Judea, has been able to cause more political damage than Malcolm Turnbull calling Trump collect.