The real issue however is that he clearly hasn’t thought through this agenda when it comes to Radio NZ – threatening to sell RNZ off when it’s seen as the last jewel in a rusted broadcasting crown to an electorate like Mt Albert is on par with strangling a cat on Dominion Road.
As part of our election coverage of shaming the neoliberal welfare state who treat the poorest and most vulnerable amongst us with contempt, here is Hem’s experience of Ministry of Social Development
All National are doing here is allowing those large Pharmaceutical Corporations to make even more money by selling a product that is inferior to what you can just grow, but because what Labour and the Greens were offering is so meaningless National’s decision looks like a huge step.
How these Identitarians expect to win an election if they can’t bring Maori working class men and women alongside with them is beyond me. They all sound like fanatical Hillary Clinton supporters more interested in purifying their safe hug space than fighting National and winning.
As part of our election coverage of shaming the neoliberal welfare state who treat the poorest and most vulnerable amongst us with contempt, here is Takere’s experience of WINZ
The two and a half weeks since Donald Trump`s inauguration seem longer. Does anybody else have the uneasy feeling that we are six or so months into the first term? If so then welcome to this blog. What follows is an interim depiction of Donald Trump as President through the lens of time and history.
At a stroke, her ill-disciplined and (presumably) unsanctioned outburst has undermined the positive perceptions created by the joint Labour/Green state-of-the-nation event of 29 January. All of those “good vibrations” (to quote TV3’s Patrick Gower) have been drowned out by the high-pitched screeching of identity politics.
2016 was shocking politically, economically, socially and culturally. We lost an enormous amount of thinkers and artists when we seem to need them the most. I think 2017 has the potential however to be far worse than 2016 in three crucial areas.
The last 24 hours has seen an explosion of Professional Twitter Liberals making all types of vile character assassinations against Willie Jackson
In any case, while there are good and solid reasons for Labour to put Jackson forward as a candidate, many of these seem to have been lost recently amidst the rush-to-recondemn from some on the left.