This is a Government who colluded with the Secret Intelligence Service months before the 2011 election to falsely smear Phil Goff, does anyone honestly think they wouldn’t breach every rule of privacy to smear Winston Peters?
5 things concern me about all of this.
You know it’s election time when National starts promising harsher and more punitive law and order policy, but I believe that Maori should be up in arms over National’s latest get tough on crime brainfart because the truth beneath the bootcamp headlines is that this is a remarkably racist programme.
THIS LATEST POLITICAL “SCANDAL” involving Winston Peters reminds me of The Godfather. Not the famous scene in which Sonny Corleone is assassinated at the toll booth, but the earlier scene in which Michael Corleone realises that there are no staff on duty in the hospital where his wounded father is being treated. The empty nurses’ work station, the silent corridors, the overwhelming sense of something being “off” – all of it communicates a single, unmistakeable message to Michael. This is a hit.
It seems media corporates think politics is too boring for mass media broadcasting – just look at the Herald’s website – and so the job of political journalists is to sex it up to increase ratings. Baiting politicians provides the entertainment to squeeze into the small gaps between the advertisements.
There are rumours circulating online that there will be a large scandal about to be released on Monday …
…can you imagine how the media would have reacted if Jacinda missed a crucial detail like this at a policy launch?
I have been on the road with Tamati Coffey helping promote our healthy home policy in Waiariki, but was shocked, angered and upset about how utterly guttered Maori dominated areas like Murupara have been allowed to become.
It’s a Housing Debate between Amy Adams and Phil Twyford.
There are a number of electorates which are crucial in this election and could show some deep changes in the NZ political landscape.