AS ELECTION-YEAR GAME-PLANS go, it’s a good one. Why bother to reconstruct Labour as a “broad church” when the same effect can be achieved by creating a broad political “faith” out of three separate parties. Broad churches were mandated by the first-past-the-post electoral system; proportional representation allows a broad faith to have “many mansions” – and even more voters.
Before I was banned from Radio NZ about a decade ago, I argued that RNZ should create a youth station format and wrote a column for Metro at the time making my case for it, so the question shouldn’t be why should RNZ have a youth station, the question should be why has it taken this long?
The American ambassador should be dragged into Winston Peters Office and read the riot act on how utterly offensive this is to New Zealanders.
I appreciate you seem to believe in this bubble of positivity and the politics of kindness.
That’s neat.
However.
Fox News is more balanced when covering Hilary Clinton than ‘One Roof’ when reporting on the property market.
I haven’t seen a self inflicted meltdown as bad as the Democratic Iowa results since Chernobyl!
The importance of this hint is that Winston could be considering this to be his last election.
The NZ Herald published an Opinion piece by John Minto, National Chairman, Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa yesterday.
Here is the full unabridged version:
I was awake before the woke.
The sale of a Rangitikei forest to a Chinese buyer was approved by the Overseas Investment Office last Thursday.