National’s attempt at the moral high ground over NZ First is extraordinary
Comrades.
What NZ First did by having ‘someone’ photographing journalists who were investigating them & handing those photos to Slater’s latest far right hate blog is awful, but let’s not suffer a collective amnesia here in terms of the vast abuses of power the Key Government embarked upon!
Watching National trying to claim the moral high ground over NZ First’s behaviour here is Trumpian in its delusion.
Let’s remember those abuses of power:
- Using the meth hysteria to throw thousands of beneficiaries onto the street during a homelessness crisis to privatise state housing by misusing Housing NZ drug policy and needlessly pissing away $120m in decontamination costs that were never a threat to health.
- Colluding with the SIS to falsely attack Phil Goff before the 2011 election
- The Todd Barclay fiasco.
- The Teapot Tape fiasco.
- The paying a Saudi Businessman a multi million dollar bribe fiasco.
- Running a dirty politics team out of the PMs Office
- Using the same far right hate speech bloggers to attack their political opponents
- Having one of their stooges pretend to be a PR person when they were really a journalist for the NZ Herald, to discredit the Waitress who bad accused Key of tugging her pigtails.
- Lying about mass surveillance.
- Attacking Journalists and overseeing state intimidation on John Stephenson & Nicky Hager.
- Ramming through mass surveillance legislation under a misuse of urgency.
- Paula Bennett releasing details of beneficiaries to the media who had complained about her draconian welfare reforms.
- Passing retrospective legislation to allow Police abuses of surveillance power to be legal.
Oh and a war crime. Let’s not forget their Afghanistan SAS revenge attack war crime.
Again, it is unacceptable that anyone from NZ First passed along photos of journalists investigating NZF to a far right hate speech blog.
BUT
In the totality of abuse of power and compared to National’s legacy of doing it, watching Paula, Simon and all the other Blue Stormtroopers pretend they suddenly have a conscience when it comes to the State abusing its power is Republican in their selectiveness.
! Breaking news!
Jamie Lee Ross one of 4 charged over National party donation scandal.
Grab the popcorn because if he goes down you can bet he’ll take a certain leader with him.
Winston is the least of Slimey Simon’s problems now!
Bert,
I agree.
The nasty Nats are smugly laughing that JLR has scored an own goal. If JLR is guilty of anything it will be that he was the frontman advising the Chinese donors how to split their donations. We all remember JLR asking Vile Bridges what he wanted to do with the donations? I’m certain JLR will reveal all. Bridges should be VERY nervous. Another interesting aspect is the Chinese donors made a statement saying they were “urged” how to split the donations. National, as always are knee deep in slime.
Bridges is the most untrustworthy National Party leader ever to hold that position. How ironic that Pullya Benefit is his deputy. Quintessional slime.
No j key is the most untrustworthy, Bridges is one of keys protégé as is JL Ross
“Journalist” is a very generous term for what Rachel Glucina does:
https://twitter.com/_RachelGlucina/status/727607447540535296
One things that sits in the craw about John Key’s reign of tyranny was that he had a “bottom draw” or maybe top draw of information that always silenced his detractors.
They are all complicit in what they are doing to this country.
I wouldn’t panic about John Key or any of his political descendants, they are Le Passe’, you will see the current COL govt returned to power. And you will see yet more of the filth of the ChiNational party , its dealings and its motives revealed in the next three years.
I predict, because of that , a return to a more centrist line by both major partys in the next few years. Extremism, will be less and less tolerated. And it is that time,… that voters need to reawaken to the possibility’s. I sense a weakening of the neo liberal agenda here in NZ,… it is now to be taken advantage of, so stay the course,… it is neo liberalism that we are at war against, that and that only.
Ok,there is no panic in my comment, it was an observation.
As for your prediction, I believe the exact opposite. The globe is heading towards a reign of facist extreme right wing government and that trend will not change until the world is almost dust.
I know too many of these neo liberals to think they will just roll over and concede all they have, both in terms of wealth and power.