This militancy when Labour are in power and cowardice when National are in is deeply detrimental to industrial relations and progressive politics because it feeds into a National Party narrative that Unions feel emboldened by Jacinda being in power.
While no one ever likes to agree with Damien Grant, he has a very valid point, this Government wants to parade our liberal values on the global stage while betraying them at home. The truth is that we will only solve synthetic cannabis use when we legalise the real version and on that front the Government is fecklessly rudderless.
There is no greater challenge to the Government than the rising price of petrol because the entire economy is at risk and those workers already trying to survive in a country where costs outstrip wage increases will quickly revolt.
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.