This week, in an effort to hide the impact of immigration scams that con cheap workers from overseas to come to NZ and erode the pay standards and exacerbate the housing crisis, John Key unbelievably claimed the reason we need to bring these slave workers in is because NZ workers are stoned and lazy.
Labour Party spokesperson for water, David Parker, has released photos of his visit to the Hawkes Bay to check out how close farmers are to the water supply, his photos are damning in the extreme…
A population of 1.8 million is facing ‘slow motion genocide’, thanks to the illegal siege imposed by Israel. The siege, as Amira Hass tries to remind the world, began in 1991, long before the 2006 election of Hamas.
Nicky Hager and I will be appearing as witnesses to look at Jordan’s track record and whether what Colin Craig had to say about Williams and Slater is true.
The property bubble that National have nurtured and built for 8 years has now exploded out to a million dollar nightmare that locks entire generations out of home ownership forever.
The wilful ignorance of National Party members is what is most sickening.
…poor old Jonathan Coleman, possibly the most boring Minister in history, lives such a dull and grey existence, I’m not sure cocaine would make life that much more interesting for him.
…there is so much that is disgracefully vile in Key’s comments, it’s difficult to know where to begin.
I got quite annoyed on Tracey’s behalf with some of the media framing around her proposal. Airing comments by Steven Joyce suggesting that the extra cost of our scheme would run into the “billions of dollars” without pointing out that the true increased cost of the scheme is a mere few hundred million dollars over the extant (and wasteful) status quo, as Jo Moir has done over at Stuff, is just plain irresponsible journalism.
It does not surprise me that activists like Russell Norman and Kevin Hague quit Parliament, the vested political interests that can hide a mass water drinking poisoning are simply too embedded into our political infrastructure to be able to defeat inside the system, but like Norman, Hague leaves a massive hole in the Greens.