WTF – [W]inston’s Pension; [T]he #MotherOfAllScandals; and [F]ilthy Politics in 2017
Look “behind the curtain”, if you will.
The timing of events is, in politics, almost never coincidental.
New Zealand Politics
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Major boil over in Māori Politics – Can Māori Party finally work with Labour?
This could undermine Winston’s power of Kingmaker more than any other move in the rubric cube our political landscape is becoming.
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GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – If Māori back Labour – Labour will back Māori
Apathy is easy to feed when we have been so disappointed by the political leadership of the last 9 years, but Jacinda alongside Kelvin is the best hope for all New Zealanders to see a country that actually lives up to our expectations rather than lowers them.
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Increasing Teina Pora compensation is disgusting
Fuck inflation adjusted, what about justice adjusted rather than justice adjacent?
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Swing and a miss for David Farrar – Campaign For Change wasn’t illegal
Poor old David Farrar, swing and a miss, turns out the Campaign for Change was within the law…
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Wait, what? Bill English tried to hide his involvement in the Todd Barclay fiasco?
This just gets dodgier by the second doesn’t it folks?
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Labour tertiary education policy a total yawnfest
Labour aren’t really trying with this policy, they sense they can probably win without promising too much and are starting to allow the caution to creep into their positioning.
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Dear National – If you come for Winston, you best take him out with the first shot – using a Lloyd Burr just won’t do
This is a Government who colluded with the Secret Intelligence Service months before the 2011 election to falsely smear Phil Goff, does anyone honestly think they wouldn’t breach every rule of privacy to smear Winston Peters?
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Comparing Winston, Metiria and Paula Bennett – Why? Why? Why?
5 things concern me about all of this.
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Waatea News Column: Why every Maori should be outraged by how racist National’s Bootcamps really are
You know it’s election time when National starts promising harsher and more punitive law and order policy, but I believe that Maori should be up in arms over National’s latest get tough on crime brainfart because the truth beneath the bootcamp headlines is that this is a remarkably racist programme.