Labour’s last throw of the neo-liberal dice
It will be interesting to see if Jacinda Ardern can breathe some life into Labour’s neo-liberal corpse.
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Twitter Watch: Witness Gerry Brownlee’s petty & dangerously paranoid attack on Patrick Gower
Brownlee must have sat down and worked out how he could look dangerously paranoid and petty with all the grace of Donald Trump in just one gesture.
He succeeded.
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Labour’s prospects after its (latest) leadership change
Labour definitely couldn’t afford to poll any lower – without risking key senior MPs. So the departure of Andrew Little probably couldn’t damage the party any more than if he were to stay. Even though it’s extraordinary (but not unprecedented) for a leader to resign so close to an election, desperate times call for desperate measures.
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Twitter Watch – Helen Clark smashes Matthew Hooton
The lies and fear mongering that the right wing are trying to spin right now as the enormity of public support rushing towards Jacinda builds with astonishing speed is becoming ridiculous now.
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Labour Can Win If … Defining Jacinda’s Political Mission
LABOUR CAN NOW WIN the 2017 General Election. Thanks to Andrew Little’s noble self-sacrifice and Jacinda Ardern’s spectacular political talent, the fortunes of the centre-left have undergone a sudden and dramatic transformation. Victory is not, however, certain. As always in electoral politics, there are a number of important “ifs” that must be factored into any winning equation.
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Hold on – National cut suicide helpline to give contract to Bill English’s wife?!?
Gutting one of NZs biggest suicide counselling lines at a time of spiking suicide to give the contract to Bill English’s wife isn’t just ‘bad optics’ it’s a lack of perspective that screams arrogance at such a frequency that it shatters the eyeballs in their sockets.
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Yay – it’s NZs brighter future we were promised – a .1% reduction in unemployment
…if it’s a rockstar economy, it’s an acoustic performance on invisible guitars.
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The only time I’ve ever enjoyed watching The AM Show & Mike Hosking’s ‘credibility’ concerns
The Media’s current ‘what if Jacinda is PM & gets pregnant’ is only a step away from ‘What happens if she has a period while PM’. Is this the fucking 21st Century or not? How can those questions lead the debate? Seeing as Bill English is an anti-abortion radical right catholic who has 6 kids, shouldn’t media be asking if he’s breeding next?
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Political Caption Competition
The moment Paula Bennett found out Jacinda was leader
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The really basic run down of policy by different Political Parties for 2017 election
People on Facebook have asked me to give them a really easy run down of the policies of the main parties, so here they are –