Green Party self-flagellation for identity politics & the truth about Immigration post election
The Greens have made another smart strategic move, this time a bit of self-flagellation for daring to suggest immigration controls were a good thing…
New Zealand Politics
-
-
Working people’s share of income – a brief New Zealand history (Not written by me)
Summary of the June, 207, CTU Economic Bulletin
-
Why the rise of Shane Jones hurts National not Labour
In Shane Jones and Winston Peters this simmering resentment deep within the North Island provinces against lazy slack National MPs who have time served their existence through to double chinned backbench impotency is ready to rupture.
-
GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – Labour strengthens worker rights and put’s $30 a week into pay-packets of poorest workers
Increasing the minimum wage by 75cents an hour would give workers on the minimum wage working a 40hour week an extra $30 in their pay-packets each week.
-
GUEST BLOG: A NZ First Vice Chair slams Shane Jones
I know that a lot of my fellow members of New Zealand First agree with me on this (some to the point where they’ve said they’ll resign their membership, which is something I had also previously threatened to do, but have been tentatively convinced to refrain from – for now).
#NeverShane
-
GUEST BLOG: Andrew Little – A fair deal
After nine years of National, working people’s share of the economy has fallen.Right now, 40% of children living below the poverty line are from working families. And under National, everyone’s employment rights have been eroded in a ‘race to the bottom.’
-
BREAKING: Latest Barclay revelation
So they know that there is in fact a tape and they have heard the allegations but they are hiding behind a technicality that it isn’t in their ministerial capacity?
-
Hilarious watching Landlords being burnt by P contamination hysteria
…in NZ we are simply too immature a culture to be able to have adult discussions on drugs and effective standards for those drugs. We see the drug as illegal and ANY suggestion that it is being taken becomes the rational for firing someone or demolishing a house.
-
Isn’t it about time sleepy hobbits asked hard questions about someone as dangerous as Peter Thiel?
If the revelations in Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press are true, we have allowed an incredibly dangerous individual to become a citizen who just happens to have a remarkably close commercial relationship with our GCSB and SIS.
-
The “Third Way” of running capitalism has failed
The days of capitalism are numbered because it can’t get the basics right – including the right to life itself. People need jobs, housing, health care, education. To achieve those goals for all requires a radical attack on wealth inequality.