The pressure is on the poor because the desperate have no better options, if the Government lifts the poorest out of that desperation by a huge wholesale state house building process, then the rental market has to upgrade itself because they aren’t housing the desperate.
The ‘Kiwi way of life’ is a low imagination horizon anti intellectualism based on exploitation of confiscated indigenous resources where ignorance & malice is celebrated by the rural volk while middle class attention is engulfed between school rankings & property speculation.
With screaming headlines and pundits claiming Winston Peters is dragging us into a conflicting foreign policy and examples of Chinese passive aggression turning up weekly what is actually happening here?
Matthew Blomfield refused to allow the bully to win, the delusional fanatics who still visit Whaleoil have gone terribly quiet since this ruling. The full truth of Slater’s malignancy has been exposed but it says as much about us as a people as it does about Cameron.
You beat the negative populism that Trump creates with positive populism. Trump plays to the economic and identity insecurities of the working classes using hatred of the other and divisiveness, Bernie offers those very same voters the hope of universal health care and education, Bernie re-pledges the solemn promise of democracy that you can look into the face of your child and know they will get a better deal than you have.
…not only do we need to re-enter this mine, we need to re-enter the whole bloody investigation, because the sudden disappearance of a piece of evidence that would tell us where the real blame lies is atrocious.
‘Several people criticised the campaign on social media’ – the moment when journalism died folks
He reminds us that even though prisoners have wronged us and must be punished, they are still human beings with human rights.
We should utterly refuse their screams for help when the shit hits the fan if they are this ignorant. If you live in these regions and they are your representatives, organise, activate and vote these fools out of office because their vulgar illiteracy will destroy you.
Labour’s greatest challenge in front of it right now is the ideological right wing arseholes who have taken up residence in our public service. Like cancerous tumours, they have spread their hateful right wing beliefs and infected every inch of what should be a welfare system designed to protect and help rather than punish.