How TOPs re-entry changes 2020 and the worst case scenario for the Progressive Left is highly likely
TOP getting 4% and the Greens getting 4% meaning both would miss out getting over 5% which would mean we lose all that representation.
New Zealand Politics
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Duncan Garner compares apples with fish and concludes Jacinda is a silly mother blowing taxpayer dollars on her stupid baby!
For some this is the “I TOLD YOU SO” moment, the point where they are proven right that their inane bullshit claims a year ago that the PM couldn’t be pregnant and run the country has finally come home to roost.
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Transporting Aucklanders: Capitalist Cars versus Socialist Trains
WHY CAN’T WE get public transport right in New Zealand’s largest city? Visit any other world city and you will find buses, trams, light-rail networks and extraordinarily fast and efficient heavy rail services. Literally millions of people avail themselves of these services every day.
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Kiwiblog gets it wrong
This morning on that great bastion of National Party propaganda, Kiwiblog, David Farrar wrote a very unbalanced and quite frankly sloppy article titled “Willie wrong on almost every stat”.
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Why Pike River matters and why National should be ashamed
We are a modern liberal democracy. Worker rights and the security in knowing your loved ones will return from work at the end of the day are demanded and expected in the modern age. That we as a nation have allowed anti-union political parties to rob us of that security is our fault.
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Wait – what? Vigilante Vegans are to blame? Dear Federated Farmers, make up better lies
It is increasingly becoming apparent that the dairy industry is a sunset industry, with synthetic meat and milk around the corner, the welfare, health and environmental costs of cows are something we simply can no longer justify.
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No! No! No! Renter Rights NOW! Not in 2020 – don’t do a Hobbit Law on this
It’s about time the Government moved on the grotesque imbalance of power between Landlord and Renter with some attempt at righting some wrongs…
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Corrections must be held to account for death
Someone in Corrections should be held accountable & punished for the callous system that allowed this young man’s death in custody in May 2017 & the coverup afterward. That’s what would happen outside prison .
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Labour, New Zealand First and the Pokies
When Helen Clark’s Labour government came to power in 1999 there were 14,000 “non-casino” pokie machines in New Zealand. Four years later there were 25,000.
Labour was asleep at the wheel.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – The problem with Simon Bridges
Simon Bridge’s previous job was as Criminal Prosecutor, Tauranga. He saw his job as getting as many “bad guys” as possible locked up for as long as possible. But he doesn’t know much about what motivates people to reoffend.