The announcement that Greenpeace strategist Steve Able and Climate strike activist Luke Wijohn join poverty campaigner Ricardo Menendez as Green Party candidates gives me hope the Greens can be a relevant political force again.
This whole sordid clusterfuck of ego, abuse of power, depression, anger and political toxicity is a Shakespearean Greek fucking Tragedy but everyone is MacBeth with an achilles heal.
So.. the median house price for New Zealand, excluding Auckland, in January, is up 11.7 percent compared to January 2019.
So hold the phone … Paula Bennett is accusing the Prime Minister of refusing to face up to the issue around photos of a former NZF functionary meeting with a journalist turning up on Not-WhaleOil, claiming also that Winston’s statements in relation to this make him unfit to continue serving as Deputy PM.
RADIO NEW ZEALAND needs to reflect very carefully about the position in which it now finds itself.
Watching National trying to claim the moral high ground over NZ First’s behaviour here is Trumpian in its delusion.
…NZ First has been constantly held up as the reason why truly progressive change didn’t occur in the last term, imagine what a Labour/Green/Māori Party could achieve?
The Chinese Government are critical of NZs travel ban and points to the fact WHO haven’t endorsed such bans as proof positive that we should remove them. We shouldn’t for one moment drop the travel bans and in fact should be expanding them dramatically.
If Labour in Opposition had announced something this empty, the mainstream media would be destroying them and screaming ‘Labour are not ready for Government’, yet National pull this stunt and the crickets are chirping.
Family First are the far right Christian pressure group who are currently running campaigns against the Cannabis referendum. Previously they were all about the legal right to beat the fear of God into children, now they are the moral custodians trying to kill off the cannabis debate.