Red Landslide swallow Greens – Mt Albert by-election 2017: Winners & Losers & General Election Ramifications
The weakness of the Greens tonight for one of their star candidates will mean they will have real problems with Labour come the election.
Martyn Bradbury
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Bill English blames Gaia for Auckland Housing Crisis
They’ve spent so long bullying beneficiaries and the poor with this bullshit pretending it to be sound reasoned policy that when they try the same garbage on the educated middle classes they use the same condescending tone.
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National’s ‘swimmable’ rivers policy is another ‘alternative facts’ moment and why we can’t allow it
The Government redefinition of ‘swimmable’ as water that doesn’t directly burn your eyes, ears or lips and will only make 1 in 20 sick is a farce and it says the Government thinks we are idiots…
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Nothing highlights the racist blindspot & vacant ignorance of NZ mainstream media quite like the Mike Bush drink driving story
Look, I’m all for putting the boot into the cops about their incredible expansion of surveillance, bugger all oversight to their powers and don’t start me on the poorly resourced Independent Police Conduct Authority, but shanking Mike Bush in the media as a hypocrite for leading an organisation that would now stop someone becoming a Police Officer for drink driving is the most petty of examinations.
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Family Fist exploiting transphobia for political moralistic point scoring is far more destructive than transgender toilet use
PLEASE NOTE: I realise that transgender issues are a minefield which a stupid cis-male like me can blunder into and cause harm. That’s not my intention and please accept my apologies if I do.
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Fairfax threatens NZ again & Sky/Vodaphone smackdown
Watching the mega corporations who have managed to avoid any real regulation in NZ burst into tears over not being able to get their anti-competition mergers is just delightful.
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The fascinating ability for NZ Corporate media to ignore why Peter Thiel was granted residency
Our mainstream corporate media refuse to remind you of the possible billions in damages the Kim Dotcom case has opened us up to, they refuse to acknowledge the role of Corporate Hollywood in the extradition case against Kim Dotcom and they refuse to touch the real reason why Peter Thiel was granted residency in NZ.
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Why is AUT sponsoring right wing posturing pretending to be journalism?
Cameron Slater used to do this shit, he took cash from right wing industry to attack and denigrate health officials who demanded change, The Spinoff just makes that process look more palatable because it’s framed as a ‘debate’ with Julie Anne Genter.
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Dear NZ – The sooner we realise National have no interest in solving the Housing Crisis, the sooner we can organise to vote them out
…Folks, I appreciate that it’s difficult to admit that you’ve been duped, but you have been. National have zero, let me say that again, ZERO, interest in fixing the Housing Crisis.
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It’s supposed to be a broad church, not a cross burning one – Labour’s tin ear towards the Maori Party and MANA
From Labour’s perspective, the Māori Party’s desire to sit at the table with National means they are a threat and it’s a tactical position that has seen the Māori Party being accused by many Māori for being sell outs, but this election could end up creating a very different kind of Government.