National’s pollster and spin dr, David Farrar, must have come back to National with bad polling numbers because National have made come out with an announcement to cut our over heated and deeply corrupt immigration system by a mere 5000 over two years…
Whatever Trump said to a bunch of Sleepy Hobbits over a decade ago is about as newsworthy as Helen Clark’s collected audio farts of the 1990s. Who cares?
The level of the debate from Trump is “I know you are, you said you are, but what am I”. The Americans Trump is trying to win are just listening for his tone, and his aggressive tone matches their anger and their expectations of how power is wielded.
…the National Party were actively and secretly looking for ways to disqualify the sick and vulnerable from state health care. If they were prepared to do it when euthanasia was illegal in the 1990s, imagine how quickly they will begin to pressure hospitals to start euthanasia as a cost cutting measure if it becomes legal?
I have no time for medieval superstition be it Christian, Muslim, Hebrew or Jedi but allowing ourselves to believe the ‘other’ is too alien to interact with is an incredibly dangerous narrative to start investing in because the only solution to that belief is genocide and exclusion.
The 3 biggest losers from the elections are:
The continuing occupation of Palestine by Apartheid Israel is one of the worst ongoing human rights abuses on the planet, and a human rights activist like Marama protesting while she is on holiday from Parliament should be applauded, not denigrated.
This is the most important political event next to the last remaining budget and the 2017 election because of what its results could do to Labour’s chances of winning Government next year.
The media’s ignorance is our ignorance and their chase for clickbait bullshit clouds our ability to have a functioning democracy.
The most boring election known to human kind is over, and it’s been a sprawling failure for democracy (barely 40% voted) and it’s been the dullest (nothing much will really change).