10 Facts about how bad Budget 2017 really is
This Budget is a hollow turd rolled in glitter.
New Zealand Politics
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Budget 2017 – the sweep it under the carpet budget
This is a sweep it under the carpet budget, just like everything this Government does. It only looks good because Labour and the Greens have such incredibly small visions.
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Budget 2017 – here we go again
All indications are National is about to outflank Labour on the left with its 2017 budget and leave the party that claims to represent working New Zealanders struggling to appear relevant.
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Stake Holders for the TPPA
It’s like a scene from a Dracula movie where the zombie comes back from the dead. The TPPA is dead but the TPPA-11, without the US, has just opened one eye. The idea of reviving the TPPA without the US, but still including all of the dangerous aspects that the US introduced into negotiations, makes no sense.
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Dear Anti-Vaxx fanatics – you are either smoking too much cannabis or not enough
I believe vaccinations are good
I don’t believe internal explosions brought down the Twin Towers
I don’t believe fluoridation in water is bad
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TWITTER WATCH: Bill English literally says ‘let them eat pie’ for Budget
…laughing it up about what Pie you will eat with your Finance Minister when there are a quarter of a million hungry children living in poverty and 1600 dying each year from the cold is pretty out of touch even for the National Party.
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National Party Exceptionalism
It is fascinating that when it comes to National Party neoliberal social experiments, this Government’s ability to turn a blind eye and ignore the truth is as unsubtle as a Klu Klux Klan rally.
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GUEST BLOG: Winston Peters – The 2017 Budget
Speech by New Zealand First Leader and Northland MP Rt Hon Winston Peters
Public Meeting,
Forbury Racecourse, Bart Winters Room,
45 McAndrews Rd,
South Dunedin.
10.30am, Wednesday, May 24, 2017 -
GUEST BLOG:: Willie Jackson – Time to turn the tables on the tobacco companies
We have a violent crime wave in our community and it is time we were honest about it.