Daily review 31/01/2025

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15 comments on “Daily review 31/01/2025 ”

  1. tWig 1

    'Dropped at 5.01 pm on a Friday before a 2-week break for Parliament' says one redditer. The ACT Party president is the sexual predator who fought for name suppression for 2 years, through the election. Reddit link here to the stuff article, plus comments.

    The complainants went to the police after the party sat on the complaint for 3 months.

    For 100% sure would have lost ACT votes.

  2. Incognito 3

    Delicious! When a RW think-tank with strong connections to the global Atlas network feels victimised but has no immediate strong counter-argument, they act aggressively brandishing words such as ‘defamation’. Next, they go on the attack with whataboutery and other specious arguments.

    https://newsroom.co.nz/2025/01/31/hayeks-real-bastards/ [see comment by Anne Salmond]

    • Populuxe 3.1

      Is it just me or is twitter hiding tweets and responses to tweets about it?

    • Muttonbird 3.2

      Damn, that was hard to read. Dr James needs some writing lessons if he's going to submit to media outlets. I am surprised Newsroom published that tangled poem to Dame Anne without edit.

      If I can point out an example where these shifty bastards lie along the road to their supremacist cause:

      Anne Salmond said:

      So a fringe party supposedly committed to freedom of thought seeks to impose its ideologies on Parliament

      Kierstead says:

      For Salmond, Act is seeking “to impose its ideologies on Parliament”. But it is simply not possible, of course, for a minority party to impose its policies on Parliament without winning a regular vote.

      Anne Salmond said ACT "seeks to impose" (they do), while Kierstead uses this to promote the idea ACT is an innocent small player with no ability "to impose its ideologies".

      The rest of the article reads like excuse and explanation of the outright democratic authoritarianism and racism of the societies the NZ Initiative and the ACT party draw their thought from.

      Kierstead includes in his bio that he's a student of Greek democracy so surely he should know how democracy can be undermined with money, fame, and power. He also mentions his boss Oliver Hartwich, born 8 July 1975, Gelsenkirchen.

      I say, send the Germans home.

    • SPC 3.3

      The irony of such a defence of the open society, is that it leads to the rise of inequality and thus to a rentier society and its partner authoritarian suppression of the dispossessed.

      Thus ACT seeks to dismantle the public commons of the nation state and yet build the capacity to manage dissent (authoritarian tendency – surveillance state, criminalisation of protest while mouthing free speech privilege for the wealthy, three strikes, more prisons etc)

      An open society can only be sustained if there is the effort at maintaining provision for all/the many.

  3. Dennis Frank 4

    Due to market failure, capitalism is having to close down:

    Lloyds Banking Group has announced 135 new branch closures, with sites shutting between May this year and March 2026.

    The latest wave includes 60 Halifax, 61 Lloyds Bank, and 14 Bank of Scotland branches – on top of the 102 closures Lloyds Banking Group already had scheduled for 2025.

    Lloyds Banking Group said transactions in these branches have reduced by 48% in the last five years. Across all of its branches, there were ten million fewer in-branch transactions in 2024 compared to 2023.

    https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/lloyds-banking-group-to-close-215-branches-in-2025-and-22-in-2026-aim9B9r5MCSq

  4. Dennis Frank 5

    British parliament has scheduled a pr debate: https://www.politics.co.uk/news/2025/01/30/cross-party-mps-to-demand-fair-and-democratic-voting-system-in-commons-debate/

    The parliamentarians, representing six parties and every region and nation of the UK, will urge the government to establish a national commission tasked with proposing a “fair and democratic replacement to First Past the Post [FPTP]”. The backbench business debate was proposed by members of the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Fair Elections and follows the commons vote late last year, when MPs backed a symbolic motion on proportional representation by 138 MPs to 136. Those in favour included 59 Labour MPs.

    Speaking ahead of the debate this afternoon, Labour MP and chair of the Fair Elections APPG Alex Sobel said: “I’m delighted that the House of Commons is having a full debate on Proportional Representation, following last month’s historic vote. The debate also follows a poll, conducted by YouGov, which recorded support for changing to a proportional voting system at 48 per cent. Conversely, just 24 per cent of those polled said they supported for maintaining the current FPTP system.

    So they're following the lead of public opinion, which seems to have shifted towards progress instead of status quo…

  5. tWig 6

    Finally. The impetus is that UK Labour are well on the road to lose the next election already, with their ‘Cameron austerity lite’ agenda. They have twigged that maybe a lw alliance is better than another 14 years of the rw. And allows access to democratic choice for Labour voters who to date only have the option of a spoiler vote in hard tory electorates.

    Plus lets in the Greens.

  6. SPC 8

    The Secretary of Homeland Security in Border Control gear on Fox News.

    https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lgyrctbifc2y

  7. Muttonbird 9

    'No way' of knowing Tim Jago was abuser – ACT Party

    Yes, there is. Abusers are a natural fit for the ACT party.

    https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/540553/no-way-of-knowing-tim-jago-was-abuser-act-party

  8. Joe90 10

    Former young act VP.

    BIBLICAL ENBY

    @AliGammeter

    Rumors of Tim Jago's treatment of young men and/or boys circulated around the youth wing in 2020. As his friend and close colleague, I find it impossible to believe that the kids knew before David Seymour did. And that's the point that needs to be made really clear. He knew. (5/?

    https://xcancel.com/AliGammeter/status/1885247677992231240

    https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/20-08-2020/youth-wings-ali-gammeters-story

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