I see Simon Bridges is dangling the “less tax as a vote for me” carrot this election and that Grant Robertson has immediately wanted to know which services Bridges would scrap in order to run a government on less income.
CAN THE GREENS get themselves back on track?
As the father of a daughter, I would be outraged if after choosing to wear shorts or pants my daughter had to see the bloody counsellor for a discussion on what anyone else thinks!
This story and the attempt to build the protagonist up as a Nazi and ACT benefiting from Nazi donations is honestly such an embarrassing hot mess. There are plenty of good reasons to hate ACT, inventing them is lazy.
The question isn’t can Bernie beat Trump, he can and will, the question is will the corporate interests who control the Democrats allow Bernie to be the candidate?
Neoliberal economics , introduced by Labour in 1984 (and still practiced by them ) put on steroids by National and supported today by Greens and NZ First (by virtue of choosing to be in cabinet ) has done enormous harm to the lives of ordinary families in our country and as we head towards the election I’ll be reminding you of the specifics of the damage it has done to the lives of most New Zealanders since its inception and what we must do to change the economic and moral direction of the next government by using your vote to get the best tactical outcome.
I have regained a small sliver of optimism this week over Bob Jones dropping the defamation action against Renae Maihi.
If National get back in, they promise to take NZ back to the Housing Crisis by cementing into place middle class property speculation rights over the working poor, Gen X, Millennials, Māori, Pacifica & beneficiaries.
We all want justice for this little boy, we all need to know that the person or persons who conducted such violence are punished and removed from the possibility of doing this again. To feel otherwise would be not human.
BUT.
We must temper such anger with a deep respect for civil rights.
