The Daily Blog Open Mic – Sunday 1st October 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
Most Recent Blogs
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Theo Spierings: An Icon of Inequality
Mahatma Ghandi said the true measure of any society is its treatment of its most vulnerable members. Others say inequality is the measure of fairness in society. The massive levels of inequality in modern capitalist societies reflect badly by any measure. Egalitarian New Zealand is a myth.
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Only middle class activists would wait another 3 years to change the Government
Only middle class activists with cushy public jobs in Wellington that won’t be impacted by a change of Government would cry that Winston isn’t good enough to change the Government.
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Political Caption Competition
Nothing sums up the National Party better than this single image
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The Last Thing Progressive New Zealand Needs Is A Coalition Of Contradictions
IT IS POSSIBLE to want something too much. The New Zealand progressive community’s hunger for power – so shamelessly on display since Election Night – has led it to treat Labour, the Greens and NZ First as unambiguously progressive entities capable of working together without fault or friction.
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The Daily Blog Open Mic – Saturday 30th September 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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Comparing the negotiating teams
The negotiating teams of each of the Political Parties vying to form the next Government say much about the relationship each of the Leaders are needing and how they expect a possible coalition alliance to play out.
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Remember that time Labour identity politics activists tried to expel Willie Jackson and Greg O’Connor
Remember the young labour party identity politics activists who signed a letter to expel Willie Jackson and Greg O’Connor from Waitangi Day at the beginning of this year?
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As MMP reality sets in, Labour-NZ First-Green Government looks more likely
…the reality is that we are starting to see more and more of the mainstream punditry acknowledge that their attempt at a National Party Coronation has failed and that there is a 50-50 chance we will see a Labour led Government.
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When National supporters scream National has the majority – show them this
The Right wing in conjunction with the right wing corporate media are desperately spinning a line that National won the election.
That is a total fabrication.
Here are the facts…