Much has been written by Spin Off on the power social media exerted to bring people to the occupation, but there was another fight happening at the sam time, one far less noble than powerful images and art.
To assist the voting public to know what the hell is going on, TDB will be live streaming the first ‘Pub Politics’ 8pm September 2nd from Chapel Bar on Ponsonby Rd to debate the cannabis referendum.
I can not see any justification for that kind of mass surveillance and until the Intelligence Services explain why they should be entrusted with that kind of power and what the safeguards are, we should not allow them to mutate into a global Stasi.
The Greens are in survival mode for this election, if all the amazing policy ‘wins’ were so amazing why haven’t they moved in the polls for 2 years and why are they still polling less than they actually gained on election night 2017???
To date, the Left have hated the idea of using MMP the way the Right use it. That’s because the Right like to win while the Left likes to loose and whinge about how unfair it is that they lost.
There is a suggestion that Labour and NZ First are somehow not on the same page over Ihumātao. I’d suggest it’s a separation of difference that is incredibly tiny and measured in the millimetres.
Unionist crusader Andrew Little will always protect out rights!
The Southside and the Westside have lower socio-economic higher ethnic communities that are always stereotyped. Working class does not mean lesser than, or second class. Southsiders and Westies may not all be flash.
Why would Peters want to blow up the government he helped to forge? The bleedingly, bloody obvious answer is that NZ First’s ongoing participation in the Coalition is causing it to haemorrhage voter support.
Ihumātao could be the least of the Government’s problems.
