Why Corbyn will win
The working class simply said we have had enough, we want our party back, it has been hijacked by middle-class poseurs who have no right to claim to represent working people.
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Labour saves its best present for last – why Little’s Housing plan is a political game changer more than a solution to poverty
In terms of a political game changer, the Labour Party’s final present to NZ on its 100th Birthday of 100 000 affordable homes is about as good as it gets.
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Andrew Little – the quiet revolutionary and the thirst to rebuild a civil society
I’ve personally known 5 Labour Party leaders. Lange, Clark, Goff, Shearer and Cunliffe. Lange wrote columns for the University Magazine I edited, I met Clark dozens of times, I went around to Goff’s house for a BBQ, I used to catch up with Shearer for coffees now and then and I’ve hung out with Cunliffe.
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Hiding war crimes
The arrogant militarism of Western leaders has been revealed anew with the publishing of the long-awaited Chilcot Report.
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A threadbare present for 100 year birthday – Labour underwhelms with 1000 state houses
Labour have probably won the next election. The nifty, ‘we will build houses while National will sell them’ is the perfect simplistic juxtaposition that loads emotional attachment where ideology once resided.
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No John Key – the Housing Bubble you built is YOUR problem, not the Reserve Banks
John Key is desperately thrashing around pretending like he’s actually doing something about the housing crisis so that middle NZ get conned again.
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China & Saudi Arabia – why would we want to trade with butchers and vampires?
The response to highlighting the appalling human rights of some of those country’s we are trying to cut free trade deals with is always ‘if we only traded with those we agree with we wouldn’t trade at all’.
I call bullshit on that on two grounds.
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Labour: 100 years old with barely any presence
Well it’s a 100 years of Labour and what can one say? A political movement that began with thunder manages to barely cause a fart these days.
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The true horror of our unjustified war in Iraq
13 years after the deeply flawed and divisive decision to invade Iraq as punishment for a group of Saudi’s who had no connection with Iraq flying planes into the World Trade Centre, the Chilcot report has finally been released and it paints a grim and disurbingly naive British and American leadership who went to war based on little more than ego and bullshit.
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Why changing the homosexual law 30 years ago was so important to NZ democracy
The role of the state is to enable you to live your life with as much freedom and autonomy as you are capable of, it isn’t there to tell you who you can love and what toilet you must use.