With someone who worked under him in a Govt agency, who is not his wife? Yeah, that's not good.
Accepted yesterday but announced an hour after Muller's Reshuffle Reset? Someone in Labour is having a LOT of fun at Todd's expense.
Ok, thanks weka. If you could ban me, that'd be great. Cheers.
The organisers claim there will be no hate speech or violent speech at the event. But then again, they advertise the event by claiming the speakers are De-Platformed and Banned (from Twitter, for breaching their terms of service), Censored (although ...
I've noticed Fortress Aotearoa popping up as a repeated theme advocated by MB over at TBD. Here's a rather lengthy unpicking of his ideas for an isolationist Aotearoa under climate crisis: https://medium.com/@themonkey/the-hollow-fortress-504f331d240b
The creep of surveillance and data gathering tech into homes and everyday life is a real concern. There's startups out there focusing on number-plate recognition software that will tell the server at Maccas what your order is, or allow you to order without...
I see we're still on the remarkably dense and blind view that whatever Labour's failing to be transformational in Government is down to everyone who isn't Jacinda, in this case it's Robertson's fault. The Peasants Revolt failed because Wat Tyler and the ...
Veggie/vegan here, Weka is accurate there. We need to have milk in for our little one, who needs the calcium etc. But it's been pretty easy to cut out dairy and meat, far easier than maybe a decade ago, in part due to the expanding range of dairy-free and ...
To be found to have worn blackface once may be regarded as misfortune, twice looks like carelessness, three times looks like you're racist. Trudeau can't say how many times he wore blackface.
I still think there's an election coming in November and it's going to be ugly as hell but Labour/SNP might be a coalition afterwards. I also absolutely believe the Lib Dems will line up with the Tories in coalition again, because they're that awful.
John Tamihere's demonstrated his intellectual paucity by reaching for 'Sieg Heil' as a way of indicating he thinks Goff is a dictator: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/115890375/auckland-mayoral-candidate-john-tamihere-uses-nazi-salute-during-debate
Johnson has been asked to supply a workable alternative to the already established Withdrawal Agreement, given he wishes to make significant changes to it. So far, he has failed to actually present that workable alternative - while retaining the Theresa ...
He's trying to unite the white Kiwi vote behind him by painting Labour as only interested in minority groups. It's not exactly a subtle strategy, is it? It's Don Brash but instead of bashing Māori, he's going after all the non-white New Zealanders and ...
Solidarity works, folks.
This sudden belief that Simon Bridges' National Party would suddenly become expertly competent manipulators of members of Young Labour, having spent the last two years failing to distinguish between their arse and their elbow, is certainly remarkable.
It's well known that the best way to suppress someone's speech is to give them the opportunity to talk and talk and talk and talk and talk and talk about the issue and their freedom of speech being curtailed as they talk and talk and talk and talk, ...
Wow, this is a pretty damning indictment of Labour's achievements.
Yikes, the comment about 'the native working poor' underneath that post is, well, interesting.
He wants no hard border between Eire and N.I but he's also ruled out a N.I only backstop (literally today, he's said that) and his own resigning Ministers have clearly stated that Johnson does not have a proposal that solves the problems he wishes to ...
Catastrophic if you're one of the 2,000 workers who get the boot, or you're involved in the supply chain to the continent - but overcomeable, sort of - there's also the question of importation/tariffs on petrol from the EU etc.
An election would give the Opposition parties an obvious mandate for what to do next. Right now they're stuck in a weird zone where most party's positions have significantly shifted from the 2017 election - Tories are No Deal, Lib Dems are Revoke Article ...
There's no majority, currently, for a referendum. An election will resolve that.
For the Liberal Democrats, agreed. Labour absolutely want that Second Referendum, and have been slated by People's Vote for not demanding it in the way the LD's did. Hilariously the People's Vote lot are now furious with the LD's for shifting to Hard ...
It would, but to do so it would need to close a couple of refineries. Nationalising one though? Under the Tories. Unlikely.
Basically they're gonna try and get their Brexit policy changed at Conference to straight up revoking Article 50, which they will campaign on in the upcoming election. Given they've spent two years campaigning for a second referendum, now Labour also backs...
Labour's Deputy Leader gave a speech on Wednesday which directly contradicted the entire Labour policy on Brexit. Instead of the policy which says Election, then Referendum - Watson was demanding Referendum, then Election. The only issue was 1. that would ...
Here's the actual text Duke, so you can see why... "15. Facing EU tariffs makes petrol exports to the EU uncompetitive. Industry had plans to mitigate the impact on refinery margins and profitability but UK Government policy to set petrol import tariffs at...
The parliamentary party isn't big enough to actually contain a genuine strand of socialism, is it? That's often found further out on the left, or further down Labour in the grassroots - which then gets dismissed by the senior party members (which, in ...
Lot of Blairites would be amazed to find they've taken over the party I suspect.
Brexit is a logic puzzle, and one that's completely broken UK politics for three years. A simple answer isn't going to work, isn't that obvious by now? Well, we're at point b) now - and if the legislation prevents Johnson going for No Deal on October 31st ...
Yellowhammer is out and, hoo boy, No Deal is baaaaaad Here's the bad news. Fuel shortages, refinerys closing down. Delays at all ports. Food shortages. Unrest in Northern Ireland. Medicine shortages. Basically, everything that everyone's been saying will ...
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