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This means anyone who becomes unemployed in the next 12 weeks will refuse any part time work offered to them because they will lose the new payment. This is obviously supid so we hope will be changed in the future to allow some income on top of what they get as a tax-free payment.
From 13-25 May (inclusive), there were 34 Israeli Gaza ceasefire violations, none of which provoked even a single Palestinian response.
LOOK HARD at this image. Think about what it depicts. Ask yourself how one human-being could behave so brutally when so many eye-witnesses – and very soon millions of people online around the world – were there to watch him do it. Then ask yourself why he didn’t care.
Well there you have it. Two Labour Party ministers confirming yet again, if any confirmation was necessary, that Labour remains as mired in neo-liberalism as it ever was in the 1980s.
It is debateable whether Muller and his advisers understand the danger they and the National Party are in.
Slap in a fresh clip, comrades. We have a fight on our hands.
The government’s new Covid Income Relief payment is a welcome step forward. The payments are for 12 weeks from June 8 when the current wage subsidy stops for most employees.
So here’s a curious thing. A few days ago, Matthew Hooton wrote what can only be described as an obsequiously…
We have learned a lot about Todd Muller (who, like you, I had never heard of a week ago) in the past few days.
I ended the week feeling sorry for Simon Bridges