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The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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Wanna-be minister of ed is a halfwit.
https://twitter.com/barridullabh/status/1638722721113853953
Read the body language of the two listening at the end of the clip. First of all, both nod and then Bishop goes back to furrowed brow while Luxon looks into the middle distance. Read it as you will!
Watched the clip a few moments ago before tuning into TS so hadn't seen your comment Mac1. My reaction was identical. In a matter of two seconds Bishop went from being in full agreement to a "what the shit" reaction.
The more you watch it..the funnier it is..
And ‘finger in the wind’ has to gain immediate entry to the political zeitgeist/dialogue..
What the teachers should do is go outside (seemingly in the middle of nowhere) and have themselves filmed lavishly licking their forefingers and sticking them up in the air.
Nothing like a bit of humour to show up a silly claim.
When I was a boy flying a kite, I used to wet my finger and put it in the air to see which way the wind was blowing.
Methinks we see here a version being flown in a political playground- to the song from Mary Poppins. "With tuppence for paper and strings
You can have your own set of wings
With your feet on the ground
You're a bird in flight
With your fist holding tight
To the string of your kite
Oh-oh-oh
Let's go fly a kite
Up to the highest height
Let's go fly a kite."
National- tuppence for paper and strings…..
Yeah its about that level.
In all seriousness though… have a read of this. My God, what a venomous little p***k.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland-council-quits-local-government-nz-mayor-wayne-brown-cites-drinking-behaviour-as-reason-for-move/WQ4HJ2EEGFALTMQLYTAZKJDUEM/
So a handful of local councillors over imbibed at a social function and he's trying to tar them all with the same brush. And he is so up himself!
That a man in his late 70s could be so pathetically childish…
Mac1, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious kite flying lol.
We should have some good political cartoons from that, if they weren’t bending over backwards to flatter the Nats!!
Re yr claim of bending back cartoonists..
Could you give us a couple of examples..?
To my mind cartoonists are generally more left than right…
So I am interested in hearing your examples of those right-bending cartoonists you refer to..
The policy doesn't really matter. It's the usual collection of slogans.
What matters is getting Luxon on the TV news (and he led both 6 pm broadcasts tonight). Especially with kids, that only doubles the cringe factor.
He only goes up in the polls when he's not seen or heard. In the campaign proper, he'll be on every night.
Way to go Christopher! Put a cretin in charge of education. Hell, the auditions to pick who got the job must've been fun. Wonder how close Maureen Pugh came to getting it.
One thing I suppose, when they're in after the election they can get Marjorie Taylor Greene into the country as an international guru of education to help them.
MTG! I thought you were being sardonic, but God they would actually do that wouldn't they.
Or invite Liz Truss to give a hand on economic policy. After all, ex-Aussie PM Tony Abbott advised the UK Conservative government over trade, and probably helped out elsewhere. Braverman's plan to export asylum seekers to Rwanda looks suspiciously like a Manaus Island type deal.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/08/calls-for-uk-to-sack-tony-abbott-trade-adviser-climate-sceptic-thinktank-global-warming-policy-foundation
Or jacinda ardern on 'delivering on political promises'..?
(Boom-boom..!..)
Windows, Igor…
https://twitter.com/alessandroBenC/status/1638608673676075027
https://www.todayfm.co.nz/home/opinion/2023/03/rachel-smalley-no-one-has-the-right-to-stop-women-from-speaking.html
Thank you Rachael Smilely. One of the few in the msm who say women should be allowed to speak
https://www.todayfm.co.nz/home/opinion/2023/03/rachel-smalley-no-one-has-the-right-to-stop-women-from-speaking.html
Who in the MSM says women should not be allowed to speak?
That is a reasonable question observer. I think that what I should have said is Racheal Smalley is one of the few in the Msm who is saying Let women speak should go ahead.
This is what she says from the link above about Green MP Ricardo Mendendez-March.
"And somehow, in all of this, we have found ourselves in the extraordinary situation where men like Green MP Ricardo Menendez-March are telling women they cannot speak about concerns for their personal safety, or have a voice at this table".
I guess it depends on what you call MSM.
The Twitter waves seem to be uniformly anti Let Women Speak or Speak up for Women.
Including some left wing men that I have followed for ever and a day.
The anti Women tropes are highly magnified there and it makes concerning reading.
I have found a few pro women speakers to huddle with.