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After nine years of National, working people’s share of the economy has fallen.Right now, 40% of children living below the poverty line are from working families. And under National, everyone’s employment rights have been eroded in a ‘race to the bottom.’
The issue is not whether Barclay was putting the high into Otago High Country or rooting like a Ranfurly rabbit.
The question is this: What did Bill English know?
Now 8 years after Palestine Kairos and 100 years after the Balfour Declaration, the Christian churchs of Palestine, in desperation, have issued another plea, this time in the form of an Open Letter to the World Council of Churches (WCC).
We need Politicians who aren’t afraid to admit mistakes and who move to fix those mistakes as soon as they become apparent, we don’t need politicians who tell us different stories that keep turning out to be false.
I do know that this well-intentioned educational program which somehow turned into a “scandal” has been completely blown out of proportion by the media. I am writing this because the lack of sensitivity that has gone along with criticizing this program is despicable.
In contrast to the rest of the world, NZ seems to be sleepwalking towards an election. If you want too see an ambitious, radical and progressive political voice, the options are sadly limited. For the radical left, the question is how do we turn this around? How can we build a radical political instrument to express the popular frustration with the status quo?
There are times I’m really outraged by the lax manner we allow standards to slip in this country because it’s always the poor who pay the steepest price. NewsHub’s recent report on deplorable conditions of boarding homes in this country is a perfect example.
Three quick questions over the Barclay/English affair.
It’s looking increasingly likely that embattled UK Prime Minister, Theresa May, will have to stand down.
The reason that thousands of young people flocked to Corbyn’s program was because they agreed with it. As did many die hard older Labour supporters despite decades of Blairism, and before that, decades of Labourite attacks on the working class.