The Daily Blog Open Mic – Thursday 8th June 2017
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
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8pm LIVE TONIGHT: The Bradbury Group with Minister of Defence Chris Penk on NZ military in time of conflict; Green MP Huhana Lyndon on climate change + Political Panel: Hooton, Dita De Boni, Maria Slade, Tukaki
A Marxist, A Government Cabinet Minister, a Green MP, a Newspaper columnist and 2 business journalists all walk into a…
Shane plays to petty ‘tsunami of butter chicken’ bigotry while Labour defines the real issues behind free trade deals
Shane Jones throws red meat to the worst instincts — but the real danger is slipping through unnoticed. An India trade deal pushed by corporate interests, signed before the public ever sees the fine print.
Luxon claims support, then 5 traitors, then total support again – he’s becoming as credible as a non-orange Trump
Five disgruntled MPs… or total support? Luxon can’t seem to decide — and that contradiction is starting to look a lot like a leadership crisis National can’t contain.
What a Labour, Green, Te Pāti Māori, TOP Government could achieve
The numbers are shifting — and suddenly the left has real options. A four-party progressive government isn’t just theory anymore. The question now is what they’d actually do with it.
MEDIAWATCH: Why the BSA complaint against Sean Plunket is such a waste of time
Sean Plunket has said far worse than this, which is why the BSA complaint feels less like principle and more like bureaucratic theatre with a funding problem underneath.
Political Caption Competition
Winston is confused that he’s an opposition MP and not actually part of the Government
Interesting Frank’s latest with a photo of an attempt at covert photography – set against my own comment on CHris Trotter’s latest “Letter from London”.
I know (OF) that fella, and I’ll bet he’s still in possession of a dual nationality.
OH!!! These bloody colonials – they need to be kept in check
/sarc
Not normally a twitter referencer, and yeah, its ultimately old news…but nothing like a slavery gaff to lighten the mood of the day…
“A passage from It Takes a Village, in which Clinton recalls the longstanding tradition of using inmates as kitchen staff in the Arkansas governor’s mansion, has not aged well and has many HRC supporters dumbfounded.”
for the actual book quote
https://twitter.com/i/moments/872315615486332929
Surely! opposition parties will now be realising what a complete fuckup the Joyce vanity project known as MoBIE is.
Now its building inspectors – only now 15 apparently for the whole country.
A bugger’s muddle under which there’s everything from Immigration, to the Labour Inspectorate, to Building and Housing, to “Mediation Services”.
Then there’s MSD and all that goes with it (privacy issues to throwing people off their entitlements to CYFS), and MPI, and the Transport Agency.
It’s a failure at the top levels of management with a corporate culture, and its not public SERVICE – rather ministerial SERVITUDE
100% ONCE…..ETC
Joyce = Goebbels they are the same beast.
Now that we understand (https://news.vice.com/story/why-isis-just-attacked-its-mortal-enemy-iran-for-the-first-time) that Islamic State is at one with TRump on Iran (just thought of that in the context of TRex) we now all know who the good guys are. Yes?