What MANA needs to be doing right now
With the Polls showing a razor thin win for either side, it is more important than ever that the Labour Party manages to shut down the Maori Party.
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NEW POLL: One News Colmar Brunton Poll has Labour cannibalise Greens beneath threshold
The most concerning part of the volatility of the Polls has been how utterly manipulated they are by the mainstream media.
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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 –
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If Corbyn inspired you, the Campaign for Change launches Monday
Matt McCarten will launch the Campaign for Change Monday.
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URGENT: The Daily Blog 2017 election contribution drive
Brothers and sisters, Comrades – if you want to support independent blogs so you have some critical media this election rather than the corporate crap we are usually fed, then we need your help.
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Don’t forget to join our social media militia and spread the views this election
Comrades, as the Daily Blog gears up to cover the 2017 NZ Election, we want to send out a reminder for you to join us on our social media platforms, Facebook and Twitter so that you are able to share and retweet blogs you want to spread.
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John Stroh: Pragmatic Politics
I am developing more and more dislike of our personality politics and the kind of class-conscious elitism that comes in the guise of most, if not all, “isms” that drive our traditional political parties in New Zealand.
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Frank Macskasy: Election ’17 Countdown: The Promise of Nirvana to come
The great mistake made by National is that, at the beginning when they dreamed up these feel-good gimmicks, they set target-goal dates too close to the present. For example, when John Key and Bill English published a document entitled “Better Public Services” in February 2014, issuing a whole raft of target-goals, they set the date for accomplishment at 2017 (for most, though not all).
That left National minister in office only three years later having to explain their failure to achieve their target-goals.
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Green Party Members Special: Ranking the top 20 Green Party candidates
If you are a Green Party Member, this 2017 candidate party list selection is the most important thing you can do to make NZ a better place. Make your selections and get the list returned asap.
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Your Voice Election 2017 – Hem’s experience of Ministry of Social Development
As part of our election coverage of shaming the neoliberal welfare state who treat the poorest and most vulnerable amongst us with contempt, here is Hem’s experience of Ministry of Social Development