Daily Review 07/05/2015

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1. Tony P 1

   7 May 2015 at 5:58 pm

   More evidence this government doesn’t care about public education.

   http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11444004

   There’s a petition to sign here.

   http://teu.ac.nz/issues/petition-education-commodity/
   • Clemgeopin 1.1

     7 May 2015 at 9:49 pm

     Thanks for the link. Just signed.
2. weka 2

   7 May 2015 at 6:30 pm

   Aue, that cartoon!
   • Paul 2.1

     7 May 2015 at 6:37 pm

     Sharon Murdoch has an amazing talent to draw cartoons with multi-layered messages
     • weka 2.1.1

       7 May 2015 at 7:12 pm

       She does.
3. Bill 3

   7 May 2015 at 7:04 pm

   Ouch! Irvine Welsh not pulling any punches in The Guardian…

   The UK is now a pointless entity, existing solely to protect entrenched privilege and continue the transference of the country’s resources to a global elite. For most citizens, it’s a failed state…

   And the ‘dunk’ as the hammer strikes home….

   For many Scots, publicly supporting the SNP even last year would have felt like taking your secret lover to your long-term partner’s funeral. Once it was confirmed that this partner had been screwing around with your much hated, corpulent boss for years, that outing turned from one of shame into a joyous party.

   The pragmatic observation?…

   Figures such as Nicola Sturgeon would have been natural Labourites a generation ago. Now it’s impossible to imagine Scotland’s brightest political talents being attracted to a party largely the preserve of expenses-guzzling bloaters looking to get on the career structure, culminating in an ermine-wrapped, gin-soaked tenure in the House of Lords.

   And for a take on a future English left?

   The SNP evidently scares the establishment to a greater extent than a tawdry, complicit Labour, which is essentially competing with the Tories to serve it. How much more would a populist, leftist, decentralist, civic nationalist party in England?

   It’s time for the left in England to get over their hurt that this story didn’t originate in north London, and get onside with this project. After all, it’s where things end up that’s important, not where they start out.

   http://www.theguardian.com/politics/commentisfree/2015/may/07/labour-risks-failing-the-english-just-like-it-did-the-scottish
   • weka 3.1

     7 May 2015 at 7:11 pm

     Fuck, that’s really good. PIty they don’t have comments enabled.
   • mickysavage 3.2

     7 May 2015 at 7:39 pm

     I would be heavily tempted to vote SNP if I could.

     I wondered what the NZ equivalent was? Mana and Te Tai Tokerau? I am quite sad that Hone is no longer there.
     • Clemgeopin 3.2.1

       7 May 2015 at 10:15 pm

       I have always felt that it was an error not to have given Davies a higher spot on the list so that Hone didn’t have to fight him for votes. Had hone got his seat, there would have been 2 to 4 more MPs for the left block and it could well have been a Labour led government, though can’t be absolutely sure of course, because no one really knows for sure which way Winston will turn after an election.
4. mickysavage 4

   7 May 2015 at 7:43 pm

   Congratulations to Len for getting funding for much needed transport infrastructure including the central rail link. But why, why, why did it have to be through a poll tax type transport levy that hits the poor as hard as the rich?
   • sabine 4.1

     7 May 2015 at 8:40 pm

     there are more poor people than rich people, so in essence the poor people pay for a infrastructure that the rich get to use for very little cost.

     its easy ackshually
     • b waghorn 4.1.1

       8 May 2015 at 7:56 am

       But won’t the poor benefit the most from good public transport.
       • DoublePlusGood 4.1.1.1

         8 May 2015 at 9:49 am

         Well, Mike Hosking will be able to drive his Maserati through less crowded streets.
       • sabine 4.1.1.2

         8 May 2015 at 11:19 am

         if the public transport is only there because user pays, than it is not public transport but private transport.
         and no, the poor will not benefit most from it, as they most likely will run out of money paying for it.

         France has privatised motorways, believe me the workers on SMIC (minimum wage) are not the ones that have 10 – 25 euros or more to travel on these motorways, same as in italy.
         Oh and how many poor people do use the Northern Motorway? 🙂

         The moment we start financing stuff via tolls and user fees it ain’t public anymore, but private.
   • Anne 4.2

     7 May 2015 at 8:56 pm

     Because they knew it was the only option central government might agree to fund?
   • Murray Rawshark 4.3

     8 May 2015 at 12:32 am

     Possibly because the rich are the ones Len rubs shoulders with all day. He’s not the first it’s happened to, and he won’t be the last.
5. Draco T Bastard 5

   7 May 2015 at 9:57 pm

   If you ever wondered where the idea of evil dolls like Chucky etc came from it was from here*.

   * No, I don’t really know that but it seems like a good guess.
   • Murray Rawshark 5.1

     8 May 2015 at 12:35 am

     It seems to open a portal to the underworld.

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