Every good Journo is taught that the left and the right are both full of crap and that it's their job to hold both sides to account and strip them of their gloss to show public can see politicians for what they are, journalists will never stop reporting ...
I agree. The problem is politicians are by and large tech illiterate, Politicians don't know enough about tech to regulate tech. Most kiwi politicians can't tell you the difference between hacking and traffic overload. Plus they benifit from the current ...
Too little too late from big tech. The damage social media has done to politicial discourse it's insane now. Social media allows us to broadcast our first reactions to news and our first reactions are usually angry and uniformed. While we're happy Trump ...
The colmar before the election had National on 31% a 6% margin of error compared to their real result. Why is TVNZ still using this company after 2017 and this election. Also considering they always over poll National their real result is probs about 20-23...
Media doesn't need to be saved it needs to be burnt down and recreated. What is the future of news media and local productions? It's streaming tv is dead. Print is dead. Radio will out live them all. Young people don't watch tv and they may click on news ...
Labours motto looks set to become "let's do this but not till after we leave office" Ardern was defending Rogernomics today while ruling out any intervention in house prices or the reserve bank calling both muldoonist is just.... I wanna smash my keyboard....
If you wanna know how Biden will govern just look at Virginia, run be democrats at every level of government and it has the lowest living standards and lowest minimum wage and working conditions in America and every election in Virginia, Dems say to ...
To understand why it's so close you have to for a minute put aside his insanity, bigotry etc. It was bringing back jobs. I've been watching 2015 republican establishment figures now suck him up to him label his policies "progressive" and liberal. He ran on...
Sad. Predictable. Nz probably would have gone for decriminalization in huge numbers but full legalization was always gonna be hard The yes campaign was basically a bunch of stoners sharing memes with very little talk about economic, environmental, ...
Blair deserves a lot of hate but his govt in many ways was far more progressive than any nz LP govt since 1972. For the first term benifits went up every single year and hardship allocations were massively increased. In NZ welfare rates haven't gone up in ...
New Zealanders including the majority of Nat voters, think Trumps a joke, the ammount of anti Trump memes my Nat friends / family share is actually more than my lefty mates because Trump style politics doesn't fly here so really opposing a Trump nominee ...
Is it just me or are the left more happier in defeat. We could have woken up on Sunday to a Nat/act govt wanting to do australian style task force raptor police reforms, tax cuts , allowing people to with draw from their kiwi saver, zero investment in ...
You'd think national had a 76 seat majority and had just promised to halve benifits and privatize whatever's left of the country the way the left make out. And I'm not talking about you I'm talking about the wider left you're generally quite reasonable. ...
Its a tough one, Labour needs to figure out where it's votes came from, was it for transformational change or strategically for centerist pragmatic govt that keeps the greens out of cabinet cos I think most of nz wants the greens and act outside any govts ...
Yes many people who have never voted are coming out to vote for the first time in years or ever for weed. I keep getting asked by people if they can leave their party and candidate vote blank and just vote for the referendum (I think that's a an incomplete...
If we're looking at last night's numbers if the greens are needed labour would form a minority govt and rely on confidence from the greens offer them ministerial roles outside of cabinet and if the greens didn't like that they'd let them sit in the cross ...
Notice that the nz left lazily only talks about poverty in one way: Families. Families families. Child poverty. CHILD poverty. Because middle class liberals have decided that adults who are in poverty deserve it. Won't somebody think of the children!!! ...
It could also be that some TOP voters (2% in 2017) , Some Mana voters and even shock some Tory voters (I know people so out of touch they just vote based off their favorite colour ) have gone to green whole a bunch of labour voters who strategically voted ...
I think it's a major miscalculation to think people are flocking to Labour and a self described bold progressive because they think she'll be moderate and consersative. What if labours rise in the polls is due to non voters who jacindas boldness turned on ...
That debate reminded me of Helen Clark v Key in 2008. In 2017 Ardern was a brilliant campaigner, who acted bold,excited and spoke with emotion and gave short answers and spoke like a regular person and made announcements on the fly at times and was ...
The liberal party or the liberal consersative party would be more appropriate. I've been disgusted with the Labour party since the current leader bipassed a leadership primary and has bit by bit turned the Labour party that was quite progressive in 2011 ...
Let's keep them eating cake. Increasing the amount a beneficiary can earn in part time employment during an unemployment crisis when there's fewer and fewer jobs on the market everyday and any new jobs will go to the newly unemployed, wow thank you for ...
"spend wads of cash on Christchurch like stadiums and things" while I agree dhb's desperately need cash the spending on infrastructure is non negotiable and is miles away from what it should be for a center of around half a million people. This is ...
The Greens will never be in a Labour cabinet simply because of the structure of the party. Grassroots Members could roll a sitting minister if the minister made a decision the party membership didn't like... The scandal that would cause in media would make...
The Greens don't seem to realize two things 1. We voted strategically last election and the greens wouldn't be here today if Labour voters didn't save them in 2017. 2. The greens lost 4% TOP got atleast half of that 4%. There used to be so many straight ...
This makes me sick. So clearly labours not releasing it's policies because it's gonna be next level neoliberal. The winter energy payment and rent freeze ends two weeks before the election, the most vulnerable people in NZ many who vote labour are gonna ...
The winter energy payment ends two weeks before the election. Two weeks. The amount of Beneficiaries who came out and voted for the first time in 2017 who are about to lose $40 and $60 should worry labour because theyll stay home and it's a couple % that ...
The winter energy payment ends two weeks before the election. That's $40 and $60 being lost to the most vulnerable people in this country whose bills are up. Labour have created a two tier welfare system. Alot of people who voted labour in 2017 for the ...
I've only been able to vote since 2011 so I'm not sure how labour in govt campaigns vs labour in opposition, but is there going to be any policy manifesto or announcements or is the manifesto the same as 2017 until all of it gets made law? It's becoming ...
Commentators above think young people are uninformed ? I think you'll find they've been protesting and skipping school over climate change and it's the oldies who are misinformed. Whose gonna have to pay all this debt we're racking up back ? Lower the damn...
Yes sixteen is old enough to consent to sex so why not old enough to consent to your leadership? I imagine turn out would be quite high cos they could have early voting at schools. I don't think it'll necessarily benefit the left as much as people think, ...
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