To scream at the religion and blame it for being incompatible with us as justification to continue the western foreign policy that is actually breeding this type of deformed schism is just intellectually dishonest.
It’s interesting to see the muted reaction to the terrible killing of British Labour MP Jo Cox. The killer has been connected to a far right Christian pro-apartheid group yet the right aren’t calling it terrorism by Christianity.
The problem is that the average National voter doesn’t care if policy actually stands up to scrutiny, they hate left wing people and values and the perception that it somehow damages them is all a National voter cares about. That the policy works is secondary to the spite it might cause.
Enabling parents to be able to spend those precious first weeks with their newborn is the best start to life, that this Government can’t see that speaks volumes of what their values really are.
Some loyal Nats are getting pretty tired of Max Key being the prime minister’s companion on everything important or otherwise and being presented by his father to the cameras at every opportunity, but are silenced by all this sensitivity around social media ‘bullying’.
This week Labour’s bid to get an extension to Paid Parental Leave (PPL) is likely to be stopped in its tracks by a veto from Bill English. For all the wrong reasons.
We have so many bloody pressing issues on this planet, preventing people from using the bathroom they feel comfortable in is such a mean spirited petty bigotry.
Winston’s handling of this is to the right of the Labour Party so it’s an issue he has all to himself, but the simplicity of his solutions are just pantomime and make him look a bit daft rather than critical and stance taking.
…our racist justice system is destroying and hollowing out huge sections of Maori families and communities. Pora represents a system that has imploded upon itself due to its corrupted bias.
…this Government is desperately trying to keep a property bubble afloat to bribe a property speculating middle class while slashing public services for the most vulnerable amongst us.