Martyn Bradbury

435 lies by John Key since he took office

The inhumane haste at which the Labour Party and Greens announced their Memorandum of Understanding last week has been stripped bare by a power struggle that has quietly been occurring behind the scenes within the Greens.

So when Key claimed his Ministry Officials and Salvation Army advocates went out to ‘help’ the homeless, it turns out he was lying…

Paula Henry and his right wing panel were shocked this morning on the Paul Henry Morning Insult Show because the ‘flying squads’ sent in by Paula and John Key to offer ‘help’ to the homeless living in cars were rejected.

The launch was a clumsy flop, but the strategy behind using MMP to beat the National Party in 2017 is actually not only possible but likely.

…we need NZ solutions, a Kiwi Socialism, if we want to insulate ourselves to the massive global downturn we are facing. The problem is that no political party in NZ is even close to articulating the radical reforms we need to reverse the damage neoliberalism has created.

You actually can’t write satire better than this. He’s offering the homeless to leave Auckland for $5000 and offering the poor in the provinces $3000 to move to Auckland but he wouldn’t shoot a gorilla.

Our sensible sentencing lynch mob mentality fuelled by get tough on crime politicians and lazy news journalism that uses crime to pump ratings is so overwhelming that the idea Prisons are costing us a billion per year gets eclipsed by the idea Guards are being bribed to give Prisoners ciggies