GUEST BLOG: Bill Rosenberg – Rethinking Welfare speech notes
Bill Rosenberg is the economist and director of policy for the Council of Trade Unions
New Zealand Politics
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Fear mongering by Business over ERA Bill is the epitome of snowflake virtue signalling faux outrage
In all the noise over the current fiasco, people have forgotten that what Labour are proposing is so mild as to be laughable. The only people who can seriously claim this will hurt business pay their staff a pittance and probably shouldn’t be in business.
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Heather du Plessis-Allan: You can take the white South African out of apartheid but can you take the apartheid out of the White South African? (with only a tiny diversion to Kyle MacDonald, Rachel Stewart & Transphobia)
TRIGGER WARNING: This blog is not as mean to Heather du Pleases-Allan as the title suggests
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Jacinda’s slightly desperate ‘everything is ok’ 10 month jamboree
Well that was pretty meaningless with a hint of crisis management wasn’t it?
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Dr Liz Gordon: The collapse of the welfare state
These are the ongoing effects of 30+ years of neo-liberalism, a political philosophy aimed at shifting wealth from the poor to the rich in New Zealand. It has been a most successful movement. Even though, as Max Rashbrooke shows, the bottom 90% of New Zealanders are worse off, most people still think that it is the best economic model.
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Anti-1080 protesters as irrational as meth contaminated State Housing hysteria
If you are freaking out about 1080, vaccinations and fluoride in the water, wait until you hear about this thing called global warming. It’ll make you appreciate how petty your fears really are.
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – New pilot programme for apprenticeships a win for young people
I re-entered politics because I wanted to see hope return for the many New Zealanders whom National had failed. I was sick of seeing the people in my community go without and fall further and further behind as those from the wealthier parts of town danced to a ‘rock star’ economy tune none of us could hear.
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Ban 1080 protestors lie to make their point & can DoC & Forest & Bird please get off their arses?
Stop hiding and engage, that’s the only way to ensure this issue gets fairly discussed.
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Latest media claims of cracks in the Government
Folks, it’s all bullshit spun by right wing trolls in the mainstream media. We are being led by people like Matthew Hooton, Tova O’Brien, Jordan Williams, Duncan Garner, Mark Richardson, John Armstrong, Cameron Slater, Mike Hosking, Kate Hawkesby, Heather Du Plisses Allan and Barry Soper!
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The Woke are good at hating Winston, not so good at counting
Brothers and sisters, we may feel pissed that we aren’t getting some progressive ideas past, but not nearly as pissed as NZ First are at the utter lack of effort to roll back neoliberalism by the Greens and Labour.