Imagine if Morgan launched a damning attack on the State, held up the horror that is CYFs, held up the abomination that is Housing NZ, held up the appealing manner people are treated by WINZ and he did it with intemperate and inflammatory language.
Let’s be clear.
There is no budget surplus for tax cuts!
If ever we needed proof that New Zealand is a racist totalitarian police state – it was handed to us (and delivered by chopper), last Thursday, at Mission Bay Auckland.
That the news media can be so easily manipulated by forces it only vaguely perceives and understands is a bitter pill to swallow. But it is far from being the most unpalatable of the home truths which Trump’s election served up.
What? John Key is lecturing Facebook on paying tax?
I nearly fell out of my chair yesterday evening when Newshub opened an item with a declaration that the Prime Minister was finally talking about multinationals dodging their fair share of Kiwi tax.
…a 1000 homes a year for a decade? How the hell does that actually deal with the 41 000 homeless people we currently have? It’ll take at least half a century for the Greens to house the homeless under this policy, as long as no one else becomes homeless in the next 40 years that is.
And while we are talking about bloody Auckland Transport – how appalling is their vandalism of K Rd?
Sure, Hillary Clinton was a neoliberal war hawk whose platform wouldn’t do anything for the white working poor, but she was no fascist.
Worthy and future-focused though it may be, FoW is unlikely to exert a positive influence over the voting behaviour of working-class New Zealanders. There have been far too many reports about what ordinary working people must do to make themselves employable in the labour markets of the future.