After another week of breathless mainstream media breaking gossip masquerading as news, Simon Bridges is still the leader and Judith Collins has not made her move.
So what is actually going on?
So we have a legal product, that the pro-tax advocates insist must pay a fine of around $60 a week or $3000 a year for their “filthy” habit. I can see the middle-class do-gooders sneer as they support higher and higher taxes on the poor and brown and obviously stupid people who continue to smoke.
So I will just arrive at the Court at the Human Rights Review Tribunal, make my submission and then just sit outside the door while the Star Chamber makes its decision? Where the hell is the justice and holding the powerful to account in that?
Of course we don’t want to promote hate speech, of course we want to protect brothers and sisters from minority communities from abuse. It sickens me to see those with little power denigrated, but be careful what we build here.
Five years ago, the Brian Tamaki inspired Man Up programme was born out of a desire from prison inmates themselves to seek positive change in their lives. Its reach and its success have grown in leaps and bounds since then.
“There is no alternative.” That’s what we were told when Labour introduced neoliberal economics into New Zealand back in 1984. It was a lie. There was – and is -always an alternative.
Instead of spending vast amounts of money to make our roads bigger and wider just to clog them up again with more and more cars -why don’t we make public transport free and charge people a premium to taking their car into the city?
If his ISIS Group were responsible for Sri Lanka’s week of terrorist chaos, and if this Group decide that retribution is the key to redemption, it would (in my view) be unwise of NZ Guardians, to ignore the possibility if not probability, that Aotearoa would be an easy target and revenge for the massacre of 50 Muslims in Christchurch.
When do Wellington bureaucrats ever get held to account?
Brian, why don’t you just ask God to smite the entire Government and replace them with you as Prime Minister? I mean you are on talking terms with your vengeful angry God right? Tell him Jacinda and Clarke are living in sin and the Holy Ghost with a big flaming sword will do the rest.