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In February 2018 I was elected to the executive of Judith Collin’s electorate.

In February 2019 I did not seek re-selection.

It was interesting to watch Judith Collins commenting on the Cullen tax review on TV3 yesterday morning. It revealed a lot about how her mind works.

“It’s not fair , it’s too hard”, said Fred, owner of a 105 Hectare Beef farm.

“Why should farmers have to pay tax on income when workers have had to for years? This lot will be voted out if they do that fair tax thing”

He had a point, Farmers were fucked off that they would also have to pay tax just like workers and they stood around today throwing shade at the fenceposts, muttering and sighing heavily.

The panel on a sustainable world at the hui in October 2018 on What an Alternative and Progressive Trade Strategy for New Zealand argued for major changes to address pressing environmental issues. Economist Geoff Bertram explained how a trade strategy could help to address climate change.

Sometime in the 1980’s a television ad appeared on our screens for a non-alcoholic drink called Claytons which had the catch line “The drink your having when you’re not having a drink”.

It wasn’t long before Kiws began referring to a decision that didn’t change anything as a “Clayton’s decision”

I think the MIchael Cullen Tax Review is one of those. The Tax Review you’re having when you’re not having a Tax Review.

Here’s why.

The unfair kiwi way of life is under threat according to Simon Bridges who vowed to fight any tax reforms that make it fairer.

Ghodsee cites the work of a number of scholars of sexuality before she makes the argument that whatever terrible things were going on in East Germany before the wall came down – the Stasi, the food shortages, and all the brutality and deprivations of that totalitarian regime – East German women enjoyed better sex than West German women.

The sooner Barry, Heather, Hosking, Fran and Audrey fuck off behind a paywall the better.

Emergency workers rushed to the scene of the tragedy and Mike Hosking was bundled up onto the stage before the frightened mob, of elite, very wealthy, ideologically fixated National supporters.

The crowd of privileged nation wreckers, dribbled with fear about the latest poll and the smell of shit running down their legs into their blue socks was rife.

Make no mistake. The State Capitalism of China is in a trade war with the capitalists of other states (especially in the USA) They are locked in a battle for the resources of the planet and the quest to rule it