This time in the election cycle out from 2014 the Nets were polling 50% in the same One Network News Poll, some Polls in that month had National at 54%. This was the month the NZ Herald claimed Cunliffe had lied about the dirty politics fake news story they were running about Donghua Liu.
Watching our NZ Political Left scrambling to associate themselves with Corbyn on social media is a sad joke. Corbyn’s real left policy won the day and robbed Theresa May of a victory in a political comeback not seen since Christ’s resurrection. In NZ, our Left policy is a warmed up cold grey gruel compared to the 7 course Dégustation offered voters in the United Kingdom.
Bill English can’t hide any longer.
In a country with a mental health system as horrifically underfunded as ours, euthanasia would simply become a tread mill by faceless Wellington bureaucrats for cost cutting purposes on the most vulnerable.
Julie Anne Genter had her medical cannabis reform members bill pulled out at the same time as David Seymour’s Euthanasia Bill. It would see an amendment to the Misuse of Drugs Act that would allow cannabis supply for medical users.
In a press release of June 1 2017, Social Housing Minister Amy Adams claimed her Government was “planning to increase the number of social houses from 66,000 today to 72,000 over the next three years.” A closer scrutiny of such a claim suggests that it is at best fanciful and at worse misleading.
I’ve had a number of people ask me about the latest TV One News Colmar Brunton Poll. If you missed it, the numbers are: National (49%), Labour (30%), Greens (9%), NZ First (9%), The Opportunities Party (1%), ACT (1%) and the Maori Party (1%).
In December 2015, I interviewed a young Aussie who had been deported from his home to New Zealand, the country of his birth. A 501er, as they are known in the Lucky Country. In the article, I referred to him as Doug for privacy reasons.
His real name was Matt and he killed himself last night.
Because poor old Labour desperately need to stay on Winston’s good side and because the Greens will get shafted with sweet bugger all in a Labour/NZ First minority Government if they criticise him, it looks like I’ll have to point out for the Left how fucking stupid Winston’s comments are.
The last 9 year rule of National has seen a deeply ideological drive to mutilate the state’s ability to raise revenue so that it can consistently amputate their social welfare obligations. This allows the Government to claim they are ‘living within their means’.