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.
The crucial political failure of Labour and the Greens is that they have yet to appreciate that without the realisation of the radical conservatives’ programme, the chances of a radically progressive programme succeeding are nil. Until the slums of neoliberalism have been cleared, a New Zealand fit to live in cannot be built.
The government has decided to miss an important opportunity to increase workers rights as part of the proposed changes to the employment relations act.
Economically it makes no sense to continue investing in big Dairy when synthetic milk and meat are on the horizon.
Like prisoners, beneficiaries are treated with a gleeful contempt that speaks volumes about the black anger at the heart of white New Zealand.
Members of the Christchurch Progressive Network will attend todays Christchurch City Council Meeting from 8.30am to protest the proposal to spend an extra $220 million on a rugby stadium ahead of rebuilding council rental housing destroyed in the earthquakes.
NEW ZEALAND GOT POPULISM early. If you count Rob Muldoon as this country’s first no-holds-barred populist, then the start-date is 1974. If, as most people do, you date the rise of populism in New Zealand from the advent of the NZ First Party in 1993, then our populist-in-chief is Winston Peters – and he’s been kicking around for a quarter-century.
This isn’t a case of the quick brown NZ First jumping over the lazy red Labour, it’s more a case the lazy red Labour has no idea there is a fox, that it is jumping or has a functioning idea of what gravity is or how it works.
Come on sleepy hobbits, even we can get this one!
ZB must be forced to put out a statement that they do not endorse the climate denial lies of Leighton Smith because while it is up to them to decide who uses their platform, but it is not up to them to decide their own facts on something as huge as global warming.