WaateaNews Column: Election 2017 – Maori Party punished & Labour rewarded
We’ve lost Metiria, Marama, Te Ururoa and Hone as voices for the most vulnerable, Labour’s Maori Caucus must now become that.
Martyn Bradbury
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Why the National-Green Government idea is a desperate joke
There is more chance of me becoming the next leader of the ACT Party than the Greens going with fucking National.
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The ‘National won’ propaganda circus and when will the Left stop sulking & fight back?
If enough leading lights of the left could find their way to getting off their arses and adding their voice maybe the faux shockwaves of manufactured outrage about to erupt when Labour-NZ First-Green gov gets announced won’t spook the country so much.
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Blame Labour’s low polling where it deserves to be blamed – on the mainstream media
If there is a disappointment with the Labour and Green vote on election night, let’s put that blame where it deserves to go, the right wing corporate mainstream media.
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10 reasons why there will be a Labour-NZ First-Green Government and why it will take a month
I’ve communicated briefly with Jacinda, I’ve spoken to some of the leading members of Labour’s negotiating team and I can assure you all, any suggestion Labour are just going to roll over and allow NZ First to go to National without a fight is utterly wrong.
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The difference between what Jacinda and Bill can give Winston
Jacinda can offer Winston legacy, Bill can offer him baubles. What Winston chooses will become his political epitaph.
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People calling for National to be the Government because they got most Party vote don’t understand MMP
It doesn’t matter that you got the largest Party vote, what matters is if you can get 51% in Parliament, if you can’t do that, then you can’t pass legislation.
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Election 2017 Winners, losers & biggest issues
In 2014, NZers shrugged over dirty politics & mass surveillance lies & voted in National to protect their speculative property bubble wealth, so as a progressive, to be where we are with Labour + Greens + NZ First being the majority, that’s a major victory.
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How to negotiate a Labour-Green-NZ First Government
Negotiating a Government requires extreme skill and the way you start will be the way you run.
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How did Paula Bennett get your phone number?
Seeing as Paula Bennett has a history of abusing her position to get personal information of beneficiaries and making them public, how did she get people’s phone numbers to text them?