TDB SPECIAL: 1 year out from 2017 election – Issues
With less than 10 months until the election, what will be the political issues and what will be the wild cards in 2017?
Martyn Bradbury
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TDB SPECIAL UPDATE: 1 year out from 2017 election – the Political Parties
With the extraordinary shock resignation of Key, the entire NZ political landscape has fractured and morphed. Factoring that in, here is the updated TDB special for the 2017 election.
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Goodbye David Shearer – we barely knew you
For me, that was the final straw. To tell us to our face that he aligned with our values and concerns while secretly meeting Key to try and get the spying powers past was a total betrayal.
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Of course there is exploitation of migrant workers – why are Kiwi’s so easily led?
We have a corrupt work and student visa system in place bringing in 250 000 migrant workers/students on top of record immigration of 70 000+ each year. We have a Government who are doing this because it keeps their property bubble high and it pushes down labour demands.
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Sam Lotu-liga finally does honourable thing & what msm isn’t saying about our corrupt prison nightmare
We have a corrupt corporation running prisons which are producing men and women more damaged when they come out than when they went in. We have allowed anger to influence social policy and that social policy is merely creating an ocean of spite.
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Thoughts on Wellington’s ‘Free the nipple’ protest
Now, as a cis white male who benefits from the patriarchy (despite not supporting it), I have to check my privilege and not start mansplaining (as if explaining ones thoughts on an issue is a bad thing) because free the nipple protests seem to me to be identity politics at its most elitist, middle class and alienating.
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Basher Bennett and Bully Boy Bill – meet your new Prime Minister and Deputy
…our country has just witnessed the biggest con job of a Political manoeuvre to immediately replace a Prime Minister who suddenly ended his career and stepped aside for two politicians whose political thuggery towards the poorest and weakest amongst us are a matter of public record. Not only is this false coronation accepted but there is no scrutiny as to why Key has suddenly stood down.
How long can this status quo continue?
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English makes his first mistake as PM – having Paula Bennett as Deputy
The die is cast and Prime Minister English has made his first mistake which will deform the next 10 political months.
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Time for Labour & Greens to work together in New Lynn, Auckland Central & Mt Albert
If the Mt Roskill by-election taught the Opposition one thing, it’s that when they team up and don’t run against each other, they beat National.
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NZ on Air turns down funding for Waatea 5th Estate – back to the same bullshit current affairs we always get
It is depressing to think that we will see a 2017 election with the same current affairs gatekeepers doing the same idiocy dressed up as public debate.