A reality check on the budget
The simple truth is that the bulk of high wage and salary earners, low-wage employers and parasitic landlords are National Party supporters. This is their budget.
John Minto
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Budget 2017 – here we go again
All indications are National is about to outflank Labour on the left with its 2017 budget and leave the party that claims to represent working New Zealanders struggling to appear relevant.
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“I do not care for the word ‘peacekeeper'” – Head of Defence Force Lieutenant-General Tim Keating
ANZAC Day should be a time when we pledge to use every means possible to avoid war. It should be a time when we assert an independent foreign policy with New Zealand’s foremost role as peacemakers and peacekeepers.
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Doug Myers, morality and business
Across the media Myers is being praised as a business leader and philanthropist yet he made money not through his own efforts but through using his massive inherited wealth to exploit the free-market economic policies he championed, as a leading light in the Business Roundtable, alongside the Labour Party of the 1980s. That wealth he gained was at the expense of middle and low-income New Zealanders who continue to struggle today to provide that triple lining to the pockets of the super wealthy.
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The new Ministry for Roger Douglas’s Children
The new Ministry should be called the Ministry for Roger Douglas’s Children because it was the brutal policies of Douglas and his Labour Party cohorts unleashed on New Zealand from 1984 which, several decades later, are continuing to devastate communities, families and children.
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Labour and the Greens prostrate themselves to corporate capitalism
I think pitiful is the best single word to sum up this deal.
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Rust never sleeps and the Business Roundtable always wants more unearned wealth from the rest of us
It was no surprise to see the New Zealand Initiative (the old Business Roundtable rebranded) provide a platform for a Rogernomics-era free-marketeer, Stephen Jennings, to tell us we needed more market-led reforms – especially in education.
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Minto for Mayor in Christchurch
Today I’m announcing plans to stand as the KOA (Keep our Assets Canterbury) candidate for the Christchurch City Mayoralty.
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Private schools provide a socially-cleansed environment for the children of cabinet ministers
We should fund private schools ONLY when they enrol students on the same basis as public schools and abandon their fees.
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The hi-jacking of the working class
Until the left is able to provide a coherent, message that it is the greed and corruption at the heart of capitalism which is to blame for the appalling situation low-income families find themselves in then we shouldn’t be surprised at the Trump/Brexit developments.