if all Shane has to offer is his usual Shakespearian word salads from the Great Waa Waa of the North, he’s not going to sate the lust for radical change that a growing segment of the voting population are demanding.
Nothing manages to sum up the impotency of the Greens in power quite like any decision by the Ministry captured Minister Sage or this fiasco over mining…
Nothing is more gloriously tedious in the schoolyard of life than bitchy media companies playing Mean Girls with one another and then competing to virtue signal their outrage olympics as to who has been hurt the most.
The news of Jeanette Fitzsimons’ death is so sad for me as a friend and former parliamentary colleague. She symbolized Green politics and was totally committed to the welfare of the planet and the people on it.
She forged a new leadership for women, she defined a completely different set of values for public discourse and humanity between people.
It’s time to start preparing for a unique one off generation event here.
We trust the Police with this extra power and they can’t help themselves but abuse it.
The police tell us everything is tickety-boo.
WHAT IS SHANE JONES trying to do? In speaking so insultingly about the Indian student community he must have known he’d attract the ire of the people he calls “Ngati Woke”. Was he being provocative just for the hell of it, or did he have a more coherent political motive for courting accusations of racism and xenophobia?
The reality is the threat of this pandemic will only abate once we have a vaccination, and that’s 18months away – things are going to get a lot, lot, lot worse public health wise and economically before they can get better.