Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
…so we now see that Key built the tax haven, was warned on 7 different occasions he was building a tax haven and now must believe him when he says he hasn’t personally benefitted from the situation he has built.
The disconnect between the Left and middle NZ has grown even more wide with the latest TVNZ Poll showing Labour tumble 4 points and National jump 3 points.
Beyond the sycophantic praise of the CYFs report from pundits who have been won over by Anne Tolley’s spin lines, the reality is that this latest CYFs whitewash reform will begin the next stolen generation of Maori and Pacific Island children.
I don’t think this latest evidence of abuse of political power by Key will be so easily shrugged off.
Another privatisation of a State Asset to prop up charter schools, irrigation for failed dairy intensification and the barest infrastructure investment possible.
Nothing sums NZ up better than beggars outside luxury stores on Queen Street
while I have Westpac’s attention, did you hand over to the Police any other activist, journalist or blogger’s details the way you did with Nicky Hager?
One of the tactics used by far right political fixer Simon Lusk is to raise the hatred and spite of politics so much that people turn away from it ensuring a low voter turn out which always favours the right.
The question is has Key himself benefitted from this? The Icelandic PM has been caught out having a trust in the very banks he was supposed to be legislating against. Does John Key have a conflict of interest in keeping trust law murky because he has two ‘blind’ trusts?
The smell of rot is matched by the shrill braying of right wing pundits who not only insist Key is moderate but that criticism of a cold blooded shark like Key is a mental illness.