Tongan politics are so poorly reported in New Zealand that it is hard to judge the actions of the various players in the latest political crisis.
However, we should be concerned that the monarch, King Tupou VI, has sacked the elected government headed by Akilisi Pohiva, an advocate of greater democracy.
THE STORY APPEARED FIRST on an offshore blog. After that, not even the best legal brains at Crown Law could prevent the voters from learning about the “Mother of All Scandals”. The Internet, as always, prevailed over the frantic machinations of desperate politicians.
Winston Peters is going to get medieval on who ever leaked his information to the media.
Look “behind the curtain”, if you will.
The timing of events is, in politics, almost never coincidental.
This could undermine Winston’s power of Kingmaker more than any other move in the rubric cube our political landscape is becoming.
Apathy is easy to feed when we have been so disappointed by the political leadership of the last 9 years, but Jacinda alongside Kelvin is the best hope for all New Zealanders to see a country that actually lives up to our expectations rather than lowers them.
Fuck inflation adjusted, what about justice adjusted rather than justice adjacent?
Poor old David Farrar, swing and a miss, turns out the Campaign for Change was within the law…
This just gets dodgier by the second doesn’t it folks?
Labour aren’t really trying with this policy, they sense they can probably win without promising too much and are starting to allow the caution to creep into their positioning.