I believe that the National Government are so ideologically driven that they will lie, manipulate and actively falsify any statistic to hide the failure of their social experiments. Here are 5 examples of the National Government manipulating statistics to hide their failure.
Just let it die. Let the TPPA die. Not a dignified death, because it doesn’t deserve that. But at least let the corpse be buried in some deep hole, wrapped in the American flag, without the threat of being disinterred and shrouded in some surrogate garb.
Branding is important. If this is the way the world works, then we should do our best to be the better for it. The bill put forward by Browning would work only in our favour – New Zealand companies, and even individuals who enter the market, would find their products proudly displayed with a “New Zealand” label.
The sick joke of security incompetence from our mass surveillance State spying apparatus was on full display last week…
If the white working poor of New Zealand understood how much they have to lose under National, Labour could gain traction. By not explaining this impact, Labour look like they stand for nothing different.
It says something about us as a culture that we only sense Australia is screwing us when they stop middle class education tax breaks, what about when they fucking export a crime wave to our nation?
The astounding decision by the National Government to quietly dump reoffending rates as a measurement of the private prison empire they have built was another sad moment in the failed neoliberal social experiments the National Party champion…
In one of his first acts as Foreign Minister he has written to Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to get our diplomatic relations “back on track” after Israel withdrew its ambassador to New Zealand last December following our co-sponsoring of a security council resolution which condemned Israel for continuing to build Jewish-only settlements on Palestinian land.
Unionists and other progressive minded people need to put a stake in the ground in opposition to the latest immigration proposals from the government.
In twelve days Gerry Brownlee has shown why he should never have been appointed Foreign Minister.