UPDATE: I hate Jordan Williams and the Taxpayer’s Union with a passion – BUT when they are right, they are right
You all know I despise Jordan Williams and his flake David Farrar backed Taxpayer’s Union with a passion.
New Zealand Politics
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Dear New Zealand – we need to have a chat about Waitangi Day
This is real life, not social media. You can’t just block someone or mute them, you have an obligation to interact civilly and if we as Pakeha want a day where we can celebrate being NZers, then that requires Maori to be with us enjoying the same fruits of the societal harvest.
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Waitangi Day needs a weeping millennial and when will Fairfax do to their own Journalist what they did to Leitch?
English would have watched the backlash to the Peter Leitch is racist debacle and believed disrespecting Waitangi Day would perfectly compliment the growing anger at defaming Leitch.
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TDB Summer Election Special: United Future – a revulsion of one and will MoU survive Ohariu?
Asking the Greens to stand their candidate aside and vote for a Labour candidate who is a former law and order hardarse like Greg O’Connor seems about as reasonable as appointing Cameron Slater to the Broadcasting Standards Association.
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Labour Candidate Finds Southern Response Wrongly Withheld Council Refunds – NZ Labour Party
The Labour Candidate for Christchurch Central, Dr Duncan Webb has discovered that Southern Response owes homeowners thousands in wrongly withheld…
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Bill English denies Waitangi Day appearance and out plays the Opposition. Again.
English is far more dangerous than Key, he is a fanatical anti-Gay, anti-abortion Catholic who believes welfare is the ultimate sin and he is far smarter a tactician than Key.
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Meanwhile the planet is melting
In my mind Green Socialism is the only way forward, and that will increasingly be seen as the only way forward once the impacts of out of control global warming take hold.
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TDB Summer Election Special: Is TOP real or a Gareth Morgan vanity project?
His surprising position on Palestine, his hard line on the environment and his strong support of a Universal Basic Income has the potential to disrupt politics and rupture ideological boundaries.
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GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Xmas mail, New Serco allegations, and Peter Leitch
I am reliably informed that the I.D.U. rate (positive drug test results) at SERCO Wiri is at least 25%….i.e. one quarter of the prisoners have tested positive for drug use
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NZ Labour taking former Police cheerleader Greg O’Connor on as a candidate will be their final mutation into National lite
If Labour can bring a former tough on crime Police cheerleader into the fold to legislate for cannabis in the electorate seat held by an MP who refused to legalise medicinal cannabis and forced Helen Kelly to be a criminal, that would be a political coup.