What my colleagues wore is of no interest or importance, what we discussed, debated and talked about as we gear up to deliver on the promises we made the people IS important.
It is good to see Andrea speaking out like a lone voice and to see the media attempting to hold the media to account.
There are events that manage to crystallise a deeper rage and explode in a way few predict. Brash’s manufactured Orewa Speech, the ignorant madness towards the repeal of section 59 and the backlash against Kim Dotcom’s Moment of Truth are all perfect examples of this.
Waitangi 2019 has no obvious fuse to it, but there is a cocktail of things that combined could become very unstable very quickly.
Pundits are missing the real point of the Blue Greens and the New Conservatives and the behind the scenes support both political embryos are getting from National.
How different is today’s Green caucus from the “magnificent seven” Green MPs who entered the House of Representatives so triumphantly in 1999. The New Zealand establishment recognised those Greens for what they were: enemies of the status-quo and certainly not the sort of people this country’s capitalists (not even those in the Labour Party!) felt the least bit comfortable about doing business with. Red-Greens they were called: a label which MPs Sue Bradford and Keith Locke wore with pride. Today, to be branded a Red is simply embarrassing: proof only of outdated thinking.
…I thought Kate’s hateful attack on a garden in a prison and her weird attack on Meghan Markle were pretty awful columns, but basing an entire one on what MPs wore at a retreat seems so shallow it’s difficult to do anything other than mock it.
The Speaker is allowed to maintain links with their political party and in the past it has been up to the Speaker whether they attend caucus or conferences.
A fact lost upon the NZME resident half wit Kate Hawkesby in her article titled “What a dag! Is this really how Labour Party MPs dress for a retreat?”
The Prime Minister is talking up the politics of kindness at Davos and we’re hearing a lot about an upcoming “well being” budget, but last September the Government released its interim tax rerport that frankly does little to address some of the main drivers of inequality in our country
This would be funny if it weren’t so dangerous because I’ve seen clowns across social media claiming that because America is gripped in a frozen storm that global warming isn’t happening.
