Farming backlash against clean water policy is cultural and stupid
The almost spiritual connection thin skinned farmers have with their cows means nothing David Parker could have said about dairy polluting our water was ever going to be acceptable.
New Zealand Politics
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MSD forcing NGOs to nark on beneficiaries just the beginning
The neoliberal welfare agencies have countered this drop in anyone wanting to interact with their agencies with glossed over stats that suggest things are getting better when front line poverty agencies see a surge in demand.
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Nashy goes full Trump – Gang rhetoric to punish 7000 children
When it comes to bullshit ‘get tough on crime’ rhetoric, Red is the new Orange.
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More civil rights abuse, more police power and faster dog justice vs entrenching Maori political representation – the issues that matter
Four new bills have been drawn from the parliamentary ballot and they really do give you an insight into what National & Labour values actually stand for.
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Come on Phil Twyford – the government can do better than this!
It is stupid of the government to spend tens of millions on motel accommodation for homeless families when we have 33,000 empty homes in Auckland.
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The micro-aggression review of Avengers: Infinity War
Radical environmentalist, solo dad and Mens Rights Activist, Thanos, has mansplained himself into believing the only sustainable way forward for the Universe is a radical heteropatriarchy that kills off half the population of every planet while turning all waste body matter into biodegradable plant fertiliser.
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The false equivalence of comparing Left wing dirty politics with Right wing dirty politics
I’m getting sick to death of the attempt by those on the right to somehow justify the latest dirty politics smear against Clarke as somehow fair because the Left indulge in dirty politics as well.
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Cameron Slater just said WHAT regarding the Clarke Gayford smear???
In the one breath Slater says he had nothing of do with the smear, and then in the next breath he says…
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Dr Liz Gordon – The land of the zombie apocalypse
In Arizona, the rate of incarceration is six times what it is here, at 1200 per 100,000 of population. The main reasons for this are the ‘war on drugs’ and also the length of sentences given, often for quite minor crimes. Women are also jailed for prostitution, which increases the female numbers.
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Of course the smear on Clarke was Dirty Politics
The co-ordination of this smear against Clarke, the anonymous troll army echo chamber promoting it, the fact the story suspiciously never changed and the place it was originally launched from – this was all a concerted effort by ‘someone’ to destabilise the Government.