The solution to Police pursuits is arming the Police? Wait, what?
…we need a rational debate about Police pursuit policy that can’t be derailed by ‘respect my authority’ as a response.
New Zealand Politics
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Let’s be honest bout what Key & Obama will talk about while golfing: TPPA & Kim Dotcom
…Key had golf with Obama on January 3rd 2014 and by 19th February 2014 the old boy network of the New Zealand appeals court overruled the 28 June 2012 decision, and declared the search warrants against Kim Dotcom to be valid.
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Green Party Political Polyamory
I for one did not vote Greens for them to hand over fucking 42 parliamentary questions to the fucking National Party.
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On The Greens’ Transition From Voice In The Wilderness To Ventriloquism Through Handing Their Questions To National
Unquestionably the biggest news in politics of the past week – despite several somewhat sensationalized stories that’ve been in circulation recently – was the Green Party announcing a bold move to give the National Party their Primary Questions in Parliament on occasions when the former are not using them.
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Questioning The Greens
If the Greens really were determined to subject the Labour-NZ First Coalition to the scrutiny of the most informed, articulate and progressive members of the House of Representatives, then they would hardly have given away the chance to do exactly that to Parliament’s most ill-informed, inarticulate and reactionary elements. Progressive Kiwis have only to ask themselves: “Who would we rather held this Government to account: Chloe Swarbrick or Mark Mitchell? Golriz Ghahraman or Judith Collins?” – to realise that the justification advanced to them by Green Party co-leader, James Shaw, is pure, unadulterated, bullshit.
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Why Green MPs shouldn’t give their parliamentary questions to National
There are several reasons why it is wrong of the Green caucus to hand over some of their Parliamentary Questions to National.
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Racism and capitalism go hand in hand in Australia and South Africa
There are occasional lovely moments when a politician’s carefully arranged façade of decency and respectability is stripped away to reveal their inner person with all its ugly racism and stupidity on display.
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How did a far right attack troll know about the Labour Party Summer Camp scandal 24 hours after it happened?
…how did a far right Troll know about this scandal before anyone else in the Labour Party hierarchy?
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UPDATE: The Greens have managed to self sabotage themselves with the glee of a depressed goth Kamikaze pilot
On a very technical level at a Wellington-Central-vegan-cycle-friendly-consent-contract-signed-after- work-function that is chaperoned, you could mount an intellectual argument that Governments can’t and won’t hold themselves to account so giving the Opposition extra questions to do that is a technically principled position to take.
You could mount that argument.
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TV REVIEW: Q+A – Jacinda under omnishambles pressure + the madness of the Greens
I’ve seen the Greens do some spectacularly stupid things in the past, but handing over one question to the fucking National Party every Parliamentary Question Time is fuckwitedness at a level I’ve never witnessed.