What the 2018 National Party Conference tells us
It’s been an interesting conference and I think some of the surface headlines suggest deeper moves we aren’t picking up on.
Martyn Bradbury
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Let’s be brutally honest about Charter Schools and Māori shall we?
Charter Schools always seemed to be a solution searching for a problem.
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The single one thing that would forever change 7pm current affairs
If we made 7pm a time slot of current affairs, we could get a broad spectrum of that across the channels.
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How the Woke Left lost the free speech debate and gave Southern and Molyneux a marketing victory
The Woke Left would protest the Vagina Monologues for not being sensitive enough to women without vaginas. It’s like a Spinoff TV dinner party where Simon Wilson has just finished a 5 hour powerpoint presentation on the importance of cycle lanes while you’re stuck between Lizzie Marvelly and Toby Manhire arguing over who hates men most and who can firebomb the Pop-Up Globe fastest. You can’t get to a democratic majority of 51% if people suspect you want to legislate infant girls being gifted anything pink as a hate crime.
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EXCLUSIVE: Teachers Council drags Cannabis Activist before kangaroo court
Cannabis Activist Jeanette Saxby is facing the exact persecution the gutless and spineless new Government promised wouldn’t happen.
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UPDATE: Crypto-Fascists 1 New Zealand 0
We got trolled by two right wing Trolls and the very foundations of our liberal progressive democracy shuddered.
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National’s Medicinal Cannabis Law the worst possible scenario for New Zealand
Trust the National Party to take all the fun out of cannabis – what’s their encore? Orgasm free masturbation?
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Spinoff TV ratings meltdown – is it now the new Red Peak of Twitter?
As someone who has produced independent TV in this country, I look at the $700 000 that was pissed against the wall here and shake my head in disgust. I consider how we at Waatea Māori Radio managed to make a 5 night a week, 7pm Current Affairs show that led the agenda for 7 months for a mere $20k per month and then stare at this SpinOff TV abortion in horror.
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Who is most hopeless? The Minister of Health? Minister of Welfare or the Carbon Neutral Bill?
Cannabis reform, welfare culture reform and climate change – if this is the best Labour and the Greens can muster to central issues of the Left, they need to be replaced because this crap is window dressing, it isn’t leadership.
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Winston is right about tobacco
Rather than punish the user, go after the bloody industry. Consistently raising the price so the end user is forced to get more and more desperate to feed their addiction is not a solution. Create a vice tax that goes on the profit margin of the tobacco company. Put the pressure on the corporation to pay more of their profits rather than endlessly punish the end user.