This isn’t the first time Mike has lashed out at Pacific Islanders, but by trying to paint out this aid budget as robbing the poor in NZ to splash cash around for feckless Islanders is ugly, especially because I can’t recall Mike ever articulating any concern for poor people needing access to cheaper health care in his entire media career.
NZ requires an Opposition that will hold the Government to account, what we have however is a Party wilfully happy to manipulate and lie to generate divisive anger in their supporters.
We can’t outspend China, but we can play a far smarter game.
Getting tangled up in making it compulsory is missing the opportunity to progress while requiring focus on the structural racism that blights NZ.
The real reason National are now starting to signal they will dump ACT however isn’t because of a sudden realisation that the deal isn’t working, it’s that National want to try it out elsewhere.
The almost spiritual connection thin skinned farmers have with their cows means nothing David Parker could have said about dairy polluting our water was ever going to be acceptable.
The neoliberal welfare agencies have countered this drop in anyone wanting to interact with their agencies with glossed over stats that suggest things are getting better when front line poverty agencies see a surge in demand.
When it comes to bullshit ‘get tough on crime’ rhetoric, Red is the new Orange.
Four new bills have been drawn from the parliamentary ballot and they really do give you an insight into what National & Labour values actually stand for.
Radical environmentalist, solo dad and Mens Rights Activist, Thanos, has mansplained himself into believing the only sustainable way forward for the Universe is a radical heteropatriarchy that kills off half the population of every planet while turning all waste body matter into biodegradable plant fertiliser.
