We can not. Must not allow our own democratic sovereignty to be ripped from us for 30 pieces of silver and 3 magic beans Key and Groser have managed to get after trading all our cows at market.
In Lizzie Marvelly’s excellent column last week, she pointed out our terrible failings as a society when it comes to sex education. Her follow up column this weekend focuses on the intergenerational theft children in poverty face against an older electorate who simply vote for their interests.
30 years of neoliberalism in NZ has created important pillar myths that need to constantly be reinforced and worshiped unquestionably. We are not allowed to challenge these scared cows, we must not ever disagree with them and we must always accept them.
The continuing meltdown on stock markets around the world didn’t slow down. China lost 3.6%, European markets slid hard and the Dow Jones just closed down 392 points.
Despite all the claims that Corbyn’s shift to the Left is utterly unelectable, a recent survey of the thousands and thousands of new grass root activists who have flocked to the Party suggests that his leadership has given UK Labour more energy and rebirthed branches that had been near dead…
To date most of the mainstream media focus on the collapse of Dick Smith has been the impact on customers not being able to cash in their vouchers. This small minded approach manages to miss most of the real issues going on.
To be honest, I thought this spineless NZ Herald editorial was originally a Toby Manhire spoof. Only Manhire could manage to mimic the subservient tepid fecklessness of the Herald editorial so masterfully.
