Whatever machinations went on behind the closed doors of the ANZ last week that has led to the departure of David Hisco ( the highest paid CEO of any bank in our country) it seems the Bank boss’s inflated sense of entitement played a role in his downfall.
Building mass support in 2019-20 is all about pitting oneself and one’s party against the “elites” and the impermeable “Establishment” those elites are pledged to defend. Seymour appears to believe that he can offer the right-wing populists the protection they need from New Left “intolerance” while, in the same breath, promising “the big end of town” the gift of tax cuts and a permanent deregulatory crusade.
Key said an internal investigation begun three months ago in Australia by group chief executive Shayne Elliot in Australia covering multiple senior executives had revealed “anomalies”, which the ANZ New Zealand board were told about three months ago.
…I don’t care about scabs. If you refuse to join the union but then benefit from the better conditions they negotiate, you are a scab. Union members should be rewarded for a better negotiated deal, these scabs are just lucky they will also benefit from the better pay and conditions. Screw them and their whining, the audacity of these scabs!
Seymour’s simplistic neoliberal solutions to free speech should be rightfully mocked, but the blind anger and depltforming wokeness brigade will attempt to interpret Seymour as a Nazi and drown him in all the bile vegans can manage to retch up.
It goes like this. National were in government for 9 years and ran everything down and you can’t expect this Labour led coalition to fix everything straight away.
We have known for a long time that the Israeli government funds intensive online attacks against people who criticise their policies or express support for the BDS movement (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) against Israel or actively support the Palestinian struggle for human rights.
A person attacked in this way will find messages posted online calling them a “Nazi”, “anti-Semite”, “Jew-hater” etc and will typically feel shocked and overwhelmed.
Now we know the details of how this works.
Probably there is no better example of how the Super City really works and whose interests it works for than the sorry saga of the Civic Administration Building (CAB).
Sean Plunket’s Working Group with Bomber Bradbury & Damien Grant: THIS WEEK: The horror of Oranga Tamariki
On 23 May, news broke that Israel had agreed to pay compensation to two photo-journalists who had been attacked by two Israeli soldiers four years ago, in the Palestinian village of Nabi Saleh. One of the assailants was a commissioned officer. The Israeli Army claimed that the journalists had led what it called “violent riots” that day.