The great problem now facing the Greens is that Labour finds itself in possession of the most likeable political face New Zealanders have encountered for many decades. When set against “Jacinda”, the Greens’ James Shaw comes across as a low-energy compromiser. Meanwhile, his co-leader, Marama Davidson, strobes identity politics in a fashion calculated to make a sizeable majority of the electorate feel decidedly queasy.
With the looming debate on hate speech drawing closer, the Green MPs and activists won’t be able to help themselves. Their ‘free speech = white supremacist Nazi’ mentality will manage to alienate and give Jacinda extra party vote instead of going to the Greens.
Its time to actually have a fight with Australia over this because if Jacinda can’t throw a punch for an issue as unjust as this, she’s going to look weak as well as timid in 2020 when she needs to look strong and confident.
The reality is that the planet is super heating because of human pollution, that it is faster and worse than Scientists had conservatively predicted, and that the level of civl disobedience and radical reform is inescapable.
All I keep hearing in the current Superannuation debate are boomer bureaucrats trying to tell GenXers they won’t be able to afford all the creamy cradle to the grave subsidisation their generation enjoyed.
1 in 14 Māori kids have a chance of being removed from parents, compared with 1 in 50 Pākeha kids…
I have never been a fan of women’s magazines. I am a book-lover and my trusty Kindle accompanies me everywhere. However, the other day in an airport lounge I picked up a free copy of the Women’s Day out of curiosity. And this blog was born…
Sean Plunket’s Working Group with Bomber Bradbury & Damien Grant: THIS WEEK: Moon landing, Chinese penis pinching, black cap loss & agricultural carbon discussion
Let us as a nation be crystal clear so that history hears us, we will not back Trump in military conflict against Iran. Not one of our soldiers should be put in harms way because this tangerine fascist is too much of an idiot to comprehend what he’s doing.
One of the most powerful effects of cannabis is to addle the minds of those who don’t use it. As we approach our once-in-a-generation chance to finally end cannabis prohibition with the referendum next year, we are in the midst of a Reefer Madness campaign of fearmongering.