…before he was elected, John Key couldn’t stop talking about the growing underclass in NZ and how he was going to fix it. 8 years later and homelessness is worse, inequality is worse and child poverty is worse.
I’ve never been to Hawkes Bay, so I have no idea of the collective IQ of this region, but are the people of Hawke’s Bay blind stupid?
…Kiwi’s love punishing criminals more than they hate crime, so in a culture as tiny minded as ours, we refuse to see connections between culture and personal choice. It’s part of our 30 year neoliberal mythology, I succeed because I’m great and hard working, you fail because you are a loser.
The only reason the NZ police get away with what they do is because the sleepy hobbits of muddle Nu Zilind let them. Kiwis don’t hate crime as much as they love punishing criminals so the idea that an innocent person has been locked up won’t annoy NZers as much as having to let a person out of jail in the first place. This is the tiny minded bitter nation that we really are.
…the fact that Paul Henry is even close to Breakfast TVNZ1 in terms of ratings should put the fear of the returned zombie Christ into TVNZ management.
If TVNZ wants any positive reviews of this beige mess they better pay The Spinoff to be a client.
It staggers me that as a nation we have spent more media time crucifying the Rugby Union for not publicly whipping Losi Filipo than we have demanding every MPI employee be arrested for allowing the fishing Industry to burn and pillage our fishing stock.
This isn’t an issue about health or safety, it’s politicised fear mongering to demonise state tenants and soften the public up for state house privatisation, so the joy of watching Housing NZ squirm due to their own hysteria about P over this furniture that was left for 3 days is wonderful.
It took 18months for the cops to admit they were wrong for illegally raiding Nicky Hager’s house. It took 5 years for Key to admit he was wrong for defaming Bradley Ambrose. It took the NZDF 7 years to admit their defaming of Jon Stephenson was wrong. How long do we have to admit as a country that handing civilians over to known torture units was also wrong?
It is difficult to put aside our righteous disgust at his bullying violence on that night, but that’s what we as citizens in a liberal and progressive democracy must do. We have a Judiciary who is asked to stand above the anger and make decisions on punishment that are beneficial to the wider community.