The thermodynamics of identity politics is that when middle class white Millennials don’t get what they think they were getting, all hell breaks loose politically.
Dear Simon Bridges & Matthew Hooton.
Quick word if I may before all the voting unfolds today.
Stab Judith Collins in the back now.
NOW!
The one question media isn’t answering yet is ‘who benefits from this Megaprison’?
The last prison built was a Public Private Partnership for Serco where ACC had a 30% stakehold meaning a Government Department was reliant on incarceration for a revenue stream…
This case matters because it’s about civil rights, not racial profiling. If this had happened to a white NZer it would be equally questionable.
Jetstar as a company in NZ has this terrible reputation of being vicious to NZers when it comes to any kind of basic customer service.
Contestants blaming ‘Married At First Sight’ for a lack of scientific rigour makes a drowning man clutching at straws look responsible and rational.
I get that McAnulty and Tirikatene were trying to be sensitive to Luxton’s perceived embarrassment but being Twitter offended is best left for the Wellington Twitteratti, not actual Members of Parliament.
FFS – will one of you journalists do your actual job and directly ask…
‘Did you or any of your mercenary mates kill any civilians while on tour in Iraq’
…not ‘did you kill anyone’, that isn’t the question! GET HIM ON RECORD!
This man is now running for the leadership of the largest political party in NZ, not answering about his time as a mercenary in a war zone where mercenaries were ruthlessly murderous just isn’t an option!
Relying on corporate media to be our fourth estate was always going to be problematic when their focus is on profit over democratic obligation, it’s time for the new Government to seek a new public broadcasting relationship if we are to have watch dogs rather than corporate lap dogs.