Mt Roskill by-election: Let’s get ready to stumble
This is the most important political event next to the last remaining budget and the 2017 election because of what its results could do to Labour’s chances of winning Government next year.
Deconstructing Headlines
Critical analysis breaking down New Zealand news coverage, media framing, and political narratives behind the headlines.
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LOCAL ELECTION RESULTS: How the Left beat the Right and Why Chloe Swarbrick is the real winner
The most boring election known to human kind is over, and it’s been a sprawling failure for democracy (barely 40% voted) and it’s been the dullest (nothing much will really change).
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Hold on, wait, there was a secret SERCO report that was smothered? Things you’re missing because of rugby toilet sex
If we could stop interviewing the toilet Aaron Smith had sex in for a moment, as first reported on The Daily Blog last year when this SERCO scandal broke, there were previous internal reports into the fight clubs that were incredibly damning and were smothered so that the Government would not be embarrassed by failure at their latest right wing social policy experiment.
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Is it weird to live in a country where a rugby player having sex in a toilet is a bigger story than one of our MPs being kidnapped?
Nothing makes me feel as disorientated in my own culture as the news media focus on banality over actual issues. Watching everyone suddenly develop an opinion on gossip reminds me how easily led our fellow citizens have become.
This is why John Key wins elections.
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So the SERCO fight clubs were weekly?
Instead of an All Black having sex in a toilet, might the PM offer a comment on weekly fight clubs in his private prison?
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Oh God No! Pence Wins
All Pence had to do was tell the hard religious right of America that the wrapper may be a populist blue collar yob, but the steel hard military industrial complex core of Republicanism is in safe ultra religious hands.
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An All Black having sex in a toilet should only shock you if you take your moral and ethical cue’s from people who are good at kicking and catching balls
I’m sorry, what? Have we ended the Kim got robbed news cycle with an All Black having sex in a disabled toilet news cycle?
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Who is to blame for low voter turn out and why online voting isn’t the solution
We have a user pays Generation with no political compass being asked to vote on issues that they and the wider public have zero idea about because our mainstream media are more focused on Real Housewives of fucking Auckland and Kim Kardashian getting robbed.
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National care more about birds than children in poverty
…why would the PM be so crass? Because he knows via his polling that the rump of his vote blame poor people for having children they can’t feed. Key is delighting in making this point while more educated souls gasp and that’s probably deliberate. Key is reaching out to his own voting base’s bias by saving birds but leaving the poor to fend for themselves.
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Let’s be honest, John Key doesn’t give a toss about poor children and neither do National voters
…before he was elected, John Key couldn’t stop talking about the growing underclass in NZ and how he was going to fix it. 8 years later and homelessness is worse, inequality is worse and child poverty is worse.