The situation is an almost too perfect salve for Netanyahu's government in resolving divisions in Israel and unpopularity with the hard right shift in government power. These divisions will now evaporate as the country shifts to a war footing and focuses ...
New Zealand voters are morons. Under Nationals proposed tax policy the average income earner will be better off by about $7 a week while those of us on high incomes and with assets will benefit to the tune of 10's of thousands a year. This is by design and...
This Australian comedy sketch sums it up nicely "Under this proposal we will spend $30 billion a year to protect our trading routes with China ... from China. And that doesn't strike any at this table as odd?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgspkxfkS4k&t=...
High rents means higher returns on capital which means happy banks and easier access to credit - which means the ability invest more in property which means higher property values which means happy home owners. This is also the reason that the Labour ...
Over 50% of voters are property owners who will vote to protect their own interests at the expense of renters - every single time they get the chance. This policy announcement by the Greens is strategic gold for National and Act and the type of policy that...
How many final warnings have been espoused over the last 20 years? They don't have any impact. What's more no-one - including all the highly motivated climate activists - is going to give up the life style afforded them by rapacious consumerism. It simply ...
Hoskings is a highly skilled commentator and effective advocate for the political right. He doesn't need to be accurate or truthful because his focus is on motivating his listeners and the voter base of the NActional party. Complaining will make no ...
NZer's have consistently voted for lower taxes and I expect this upcoming election to be no different. We already have some of the lowest tax rates in the OECD so one has to wonder where this incremental but persistent reduction in government revenue will ...
If you want to find out who runs the NZ economy and dictates tax policy, try raising taxes on the finance sector. In fact, try and do anything the finance sector doesn't approve of and you'll discover how "democracy" really works. The Labour government ...
The current government is planning to use Lotto to help fund the rebuild of damaged infrastructure and National are proposing tax cuts. This sums up what I predict will happen - very little. No-one is going waste too much time of money on Northland or ...
Tax cuts and racism - as a political strategy this is the gift that keeps on giving and has proven highly successful in overseas elections from Brexit in the UK (getting rid of filthy Eastern European workers) to Modi in India (responsible for the massacre...
"English voters might be conservative" - only about 30% of them and with FPTP that's all you need to win a parliamentary majority in the UK. The Corbyn bashing was undertaken because of his economic policies - policies desperately needed in the sagging UK ...
Agree - but why did the government not come out on this and make it clear? Where were they? If you want info on 3 waters you have to hunt through obscure government websites to find it. Where were the media discussions with ministers, where were the strong...
The UK has a FPTP electoral system which means that nearly every majority government in the UK is elected by anywhere between 30 to 40% of the popular vote. Despite polling in the UK I believe the Conservatives could easily win the next election in 2024 ...
"National Party strategists must be worried." I don't thinks so. Why is there an assumption that what Luxon is doing is somehow a blunder or mistake? National and Luxon and the party strategists know exactly what they are doing. Riding the anti-woke ...
"If you want to know what's wrong with democracy spend 5 minutes talking to the average voter." Winston Churchill. When do voters take responsibility for their tendency to be manipulated by charlatans? They don't - the consequence of lower taxes is born by...
Fundamentally necessary to demonstrate cruelty to beneficiaries in order to win an election in NZ. Working and middle class voters love it when politicians pick on beneficiaries - it just turns them on big time.
Given the choice between maintaining the good will of the motivated, voting, middle class and helping out low-voting, low paid workers ... I'm not as confident as the author about the outcome of the proposals. The business organizations that have lined up ...
It may be hard to see through the smoke and broken glass but Trump and the Republicans are on the exact same team as Joe Biden and the Democrats. The shrill hysteria over Trump and his supporters is all part of an elaborate theatrical display of democracy ...
As Labour Party members our primary concern is to support our party and criticize the opposition but we also need to remind ourselves that the opposition are not in government and that we as socialists have a duty to hold the party in government to account...
Corbyn like - Sanders - was right on almost every social and economic policy he put forward. His defeat proved only how ignorant and easily manipulated working and middle class voters are in the UK. Like a herd of subservient feudal peasants doffing their ...
Maintaining a pool of underpaid and desperate workers motivated by an even more impoverished underclass of beneficiaries is a key component of our current economic system. Corporate investors must be relishing the opportunities for cheap labor in the near ...
Most voters don't understand economics or make the connection between taxing the wealthy and their current standard of living. The electorate is imbued with the idea that successful commerce and business are the only factors governing their own financial ...
The claim that the NHS is a cherished institution in the UK is utter bollocks and belied by the fact the the UK electorate has retained some form of Conservative government for almost 10 years and appears likely to give it another 5 years by the end of ...
The saddest part of this story is that we won't see a Labour politician stand up and fight the narrative. It is a narrative ingrained into the middle class like a stain on an old pair of underpants and no politician on the left will confront and explicitly...
Corbyn - the last hero of the left in the UK - let us temper hope with caution because the conservatives have held onto power in the UK for ... over 10 years. And that's because the working and middle class in the UK generally do what they are told by ...
I've followed and mulled over Brexit for many months. My theory is that the UK needs proportional representation. I believe the lead up to Brexit and the subsequent unravelling of effective government could all have been avoided if the UK didn't have a ...
Your article is pure un adulterated Western military propaganda. The fact that you are threatening to silence people who are pointing out this fact to you is disturbing.
How easy it is to divert attention from the real enemy. How revolting to read an article from the NZ left taking tips and instructions from the NZ intelligence service and it's sycophantic obedience to the US war agenda. Ordinary NZ has more to fear from ...
I think it is useful to understand something about why Israel has become what it has. Centuries of persecution across Europe culminated in the genocide of millions in the second world war. It is probably only an accident of history that it was the Germans ...
Absolutely spot on. To me Trump highlights not only the success of the right - but of more concern - the abject failure of the left. The Democratic Party in the US still have nothing to counter the policy platform that the republicans are carrying out ...
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