Jim Anderton made a great and irreplaceable contribution to our society and democracy. Without his leadership of NewLabour and the Alliance – and his support of MMP – we might still be stuck with a narrow, two-party, first-past-the-post political system – like Britain, Australia, Canada and the United States. We owe Jim a lot.
It’s not that I want this compassion to be removed from the elderly or the veterans, I just wish that the same empathy could be extended to the beneficiaries whose lives they make miserable.
Rest in peace Jim, you were a bigger man than Labour’s treachery could ever contain.
From now on, The Daily Blog will be naming all storms hitting NZ by the names of MPs who are doing sweet bugger all and by the NZ Corporations exacerbating climate change.
Any research report on the planet Earth would come to some grim conclusions. Can you imagine it?
It’s almost like an extreme weather event exacerbated by something is happening to the climate???
The crash is starting and the cold reality of how in debt the property class find themselves is starting to sink in. Watch them thrash around and twist in the wind as the reality of that mountain of debt starts to implode upon them.
The World Press Freedom Index is out and after 9 years under National, NZ has dropped 8 places from 5 to 13. Here’s what the report had to say…
…when you have to trump up false charges against a teenage girl because she hit an occupying forces soldier who is invading her home, you know that the justification for this ongoing human rights obscenity has reached pretty barrel scrapping levels.
…Refining New Zealand is the industry funded pretence to pay for infrastructure so that the Government don’t wise up and demand more serious oversight, thankfully Resources Minister Megan Woods has ordered an inquiry into the fiasco last year and fingers crossed she extends the focus to whether or not this joke is fit for purpose.