Bit of a sneering stretch to say trade and vocational training has collapsed and universities are in decline. That's just the unsubstantiated reckons of a dilettante pretend left blogger.
I thought millsy had a good generally observational point. It speaks to how the working class today are great customers for marketing in all its forms. See Phillip Morris etc with vapes. But to your accusation that millsy comments are trivial and comedic, ...
What troubles me is the idea the Greens should be outright censored in specific areas and muted generally from certain topics. That they should not speak truth to power so vociferously on human rights and social issues, in case it annoys the powerful. It ...
I agree the system exploits workers and nature which is why the previous government tried to put long lasting and robust protections for workers and nature. Is it up to that government to throw out the system? You'd need a really big mandate for that. The ...
Applying "2, 4, 6, 8" seems like white-splaining Palestinans' problems to them and disenfranchising them of their voice and fight. It's more than something to just not agree with. It's trivialising, racist ethnocide at its worst. Particularly at a time ...
Seymour doesn't like the wero, thinks it intimidating: Wero (meaning "to cast a spear"), also known as taki, is a traditional Māori challenge, performed as part of the Māori protocol. Its purpose is to ensure that visitors come in peace*. It also ...
If this situation was replicated anywhere other than Israel it would be regime change time. But it’s Israel. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/508908/israel-gaza-war-warnings-mount-as-israel-plans-rafah-offensive From the river to the sea…
I assume the $1.4B is the accommodation supplement? It's a subsidy to low income tenants, who then require somewhere to live. It's also money collected from a reasonably progressive tax system so most of the money is taxed from high earners, and therefore ...
Thanks, I missed that one. What I can't understand is if Labour's advances in worker wellbeing were inconsequential, why did ACT make it their very first order of business to scrap the lot?
Another one attacking the Labour Party for some reason. Perhaps save your energy for the actual opposition, National/ACT/NZF. It's very odd to claim the working class has had no representation in the last 40 years when the last government abolished zero ...
I think you came unstuck after the point you made about the definition of gerrymandering. Should have stopped there perhaps? Because now you seem desperate to justify the now 16 year arrangement National and ACT have had in Epsom.
Cool, you're claiming the ACT party, its MPs, its funders, and its voters are the victims here...
Really high risk for the identity of this country if it gets to referendum because huge amounts of money will be poured into the Maori-phobic campaign. Seymour's white supremacist ideology must be addressed before then.
Wild discrepancies in the same period. I wonder what an actual, impartial statistician would make of it? RM: ACT 7.5%, Greens 15.5% Farrar: ACT 13.7%, Greens 9% Even without considering Farrar's corrupt and influenced position as a pollster, the major ...
Yeah, Farrar's polling I'd trust the least. It's because alongside being a pollster he's a heavily partisan political activist associated with the National Party, with ACT party, and with the Taxdodger's Union which, we hear, is itself sponsored by the ...
Read it and weep. According to Peter Wilson, Luxon has no idea what he's doing in the face of the recalcitrant David Seymour: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/508772/the-week-in-politics-seymour-s-bill-still-front-and-centre
Even I would vote for that. Many jurisdictions across the world have banned Airbnb. https://www.tourism-review.com/short-term-rentals-strictly-regulated-worldwide-news13377#
Just 6 years ago in 2017 ACT got 0.5% of the party vote. There many reasons for the resurgence to 8% in 2023 but the most important was the collapse of the National Party in 2020.
ACT Party MPs settle into their offices at the Beehive: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2024/02/countdown-dunedin-south-closes-for-more-pest-control-work-after-another-visit-from-rodents.html
Seems naive. The longer it goes on the more difficult it is to shut down. If it's true Luxon is sniffing the wind on public opinion and he made the call to now be unequivocal, that decision must have been aided by the mahi done at Waitangi. Quite why he'd ...
Incredible. Two months in and we are already at the stage of, 'your children's classrooms are too luxurious'.
Difference being there's collusion between National and ACT in Epsom, but none in the Maori electorates between Labour and TPM which is what you implied with the comparison. Like I said, a good way to dilute the mischievousness in Epsom is to claim both ...
Sure, but your comparison was false. Likely deliberately in an effort to water down the unscrupulous National/ACT arrangement in Epsom.
No, the equivalent would be Labour and TPM entering an agreement where Labour deliberately throws Maori seats by encouraging voters to vote for TPM candidate. Perhaps you have evidence of this happening in the last election?
Even Gosman, [deleted] saw the problems of being associated with Atlas. Tried very hard to claim there is no such connection. [I've never heard that about Gosman before and I have no way of checking. Please don't try and break pseudonyms. I protect them on...
At one point I had assumed Seymour would not allow himself too be seen as a trouble maker in government, rather wanting to be a serious, dependable player. But now I don't think he cares, his ideological mission to dilute and disperse Te ao Māori too ...
Thanks, Hooten is rightly terrified of Seymour having the time and space to spend the huge amounts of shadowy far right wing funding on manipulating public opinion.
It makes sense when you remember the National Party was formed to stop the Labour Party doing anything. They consider 'on hold' to be fulfilling that promise.
Tova O'Brien makes the point I made yesterday :) that Seymour is undermining Luxon by calling him nervous and a liar. I can't remember this happening before. https://www.stuff.co.nz/politics/350173342/pm-may-want-get-his-elbows-out-over-treaty-principles-...
Bravo. Seymour is a hologram which the wealthy, racist right coalesce around. He's a tool, their tool.
Over-reach is fine as long as it's niggers we are talking about: https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2024/02/police-minister-mark-mitchell-says-tactics-to-enforce-gang-patch-ban-to-be-revealed-soon.html
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