What should have happened is that Kavanaugh should have been grilled over his views on abortion and whether or not he would ever make it more difficult for women to get them, instead it became an emotive media circus that created a toxic cultural backlash which risks benefitting the Republicans in the mid term elections.
Meka must grow up, dump the chip on her shoulder about how incompetent staff are a reflection of disdain against Māori women in power and get back to the excellent work for her constituents that she is known for. The Prime Minister also must ponder how woke activists in her own office could inadvertently paint her into a corner she can’t get out of.
Because we as New Zealanders have allowed ourselves to be emotionally manipulated by mainstream media who use crime porn as a ratings aphrodisiac alongside victims rights groups who use victims pain to champion vengeance over justice, Corrections has become one vast violent, overcrowded hate pit where double bunked jail cells are rape pens.
After last Friday’s double wins for me in the Courts , it was perhaps too much to be expected the “system ” ( Corrections ) would leave me be.
October has only just begun but already, in the first two days of this month, the Israeli Army has shot dead a 78-year-old farmer, Ahmad Nassar Al-Arqawi, as he tried to eke out a living on blockaded Gaza farmland.
Far from undermining our parliamentary democracy, the Electoral Integrity legislation which NZ First insisted form a central part of this new coalition government’s programme now stands as a solid protection against any repetition of the constitutional outrage of 1998. That blatant attack on MMP which Winston Peters perennial critics either cannot, or will not, acknowledge.
There is an anecdote about how, in Stalin era USSR, everything would somehow be blamed on Trotsky. Soviet economy didn’t meet 5 year plan output targets? Trotsky’s fault. Collectivization of agriculture has unintended effects on food supply? Trotsky’s fault. Building collapses? Trotsky’s fault. Factory machinery stops working? Trotsky’s fault. Fall down the stairs? Trotsky’s fault. Etc.
Anyone who has been active in Auckland politics from a grass roots level over the last 3 decades knew and would have be accosted by dear Penny.
Her tenacity, her focus and her unwavering believe that people can hold their political masters accountable inspired as many as it alienated, she never suffered fools and was merciless if she saw you as the enemy.
She was a battler, a fighter and a unique character who we are made lesser with her passing.
All our love from The Daily Blog to her whanau.
…the taxpayers Union has always been an astro-turf group. Funded by the right, it seeks to weaponise the spending of public money for the small Government cult.
This move to make synthetic cannabis Class A is just so stupid.
Here is what will happen the second you increase the penalty.
