What English has in fact created are neoliberal welfare state agencies that are more aggressive than a Police Dog on meth. The beneficiaries are terrified of talking to any government agency now because that information goes to everyone and suddenly the beneficiary who is asking for help from Housing NZ are then facing a bill from WINZ for a relationship they didn’t disclose.
What many Journalists still don’t appreciate about English is that he is a hard core ideologue. He sees superannuation as simply the next benefit to attack, just like CYFs, just like state housing, just like public prisons.
The power of Lorde’s voice online managed to project from the netherworld of cyberspace and tear into the real life last night as she sent out a treasure hunt that saw Aucklanders ripped from their lounge rooms and rushing around town in a confused and curious friction.
Some on the Left and in the media feel that Jacinda is underwhelming in some way. That intellectually she isn’t hard enough, in the House not combative enough and everyone always asks ‘yeah but what has she done’.
Corrections know that the lynch mob mentality of an easily led electorate manipulated by media and politicians will always have a thirst for suffering with punishment. Corrections know that society doesn’t give a fuck about prisoner rights. Corrections know the public are too stupid, angry and fearful about crime to rationally understand that abusing these prisoners only creates more damaged people entering society.
Not inviting Mike Lee to speak, the man who fought to get this piece of our history saved, is a disgraceful and spiteful move by Auckland Transport.
In light of the scope, scale and sheer audacity of corruption inside Auckland Transport that Matt Nippert has exposed, it’s time Phil Goff fronted on this issue and explained to us all why he removed our oversight on Auckland Transport and what the hell he intends to replace it with so that Auckland Transport are accountable to us.
TDB pointed out this would happen on Monday and we explained the internal tensions that were building for it to happen…
National need huge migration numbers to prop up the property bubble and require tens of thousands of exploitable migrant workers to keep labour costs down. Blaming mass immigration and cheap labour exploitation on Kiwis smoking weed is like downgrading your water quality and renaming it ‘swimmable’.
So after building the Prison Empire that we now suffer under, ACT have decided the skyrocketing prison population is a damaging social cancer and are suggesting if Prisoners learn reading or writing the will get an early release.
Lovely to see ACT come out of the dark ages.