Allowing the NZ Government to spy on you for ‘terrorism’ purposes is one thing, allowing the fucking NSA to have that same power over all of us is an act of Treason!
It will be interesting to see if Jacinda Ardern can breathe some life into Labour’s neo-liberal corpse.
Brownlee must have sat down and worked out how he could look dangerously paranoid and petty with all the grace of Donald Trump in just one gesture.
He succeeded.
Labour definitely couldn’t afford to poll any lower – without risking key senior MPs. So the departure of Andrew Little probably couldn’t damage the party any more than if he were to stay. Even though it’s extraordinary (but not unprecedented) for a leader to resign so close to an election, desperate times call for desperate measures.
The lies and fear mongering that the right wing are trying to spin right now as the enormity of public support rushing towards Jacinda builds with astonishing speed is becoming ridiculous now.
LABOUR CAN NOW WIN the 2017 General Election. Thanks to Andrew Little’s noble self-sacrifice and Jacinda Ardern’s spectacular political talent, the fortunes of the centre-left have undergone a sudden and dramatic transformation. Victory is not, however, certain. As always in electoral politics, there are a number of important “ifs” that must be factored into any winning equation.
Gutting one of NZs biggest suicide counselling lines at a time of spiking suicide to give the contract to Bill English’s wife isn’t just ‘bad optics’ it’s a lack of perspective that screams arrogance at such a frequency that it shatters the eyeballs in their sockets.
…if it’s a rockstar economy, it’s an acoustic performance on invisible guitars.
People on Facebook have asked me to give them a really easy run down of the policies of the main parties, so here they are –
By the end of this week, a quantity of ink fit to fill Lake Rotoiti – and sufficient electrons to power Tiwai Point for about the space of half an hour – will no doubt have been marshalled in service of commentating upon what Jacinda Ardern’s ‘shock’ elevation to the leadership of Labour means for that party. And, for that matter, the prospects of actually securing ‘progressive’ governance in 2017.