Is it because the lie “allows” people to vote for National, as an excuse, rather than Labour? No, it is because the lie would hit people in the wallet. Not everyone makes rational choices....Not everyone reads party political policies....not everyone ...
Popexplosion I agree in the main with your post, though don't think it's just down to Thatcherism and neoliberalism. It has a longer legacy in the capitalist system, but raises it's ugly head time and time again, when society is on cruise mode and becomes ...
lol, it's not an ad "on" kiwiblog.They facilitate a platform to target you......and based on your internet usage.....Labour's algorithm fits your Bill!
Yup.....13% is a lot to play for.....who would be most inclined to refuse to say? Don't lose heart people....get on the phone and talk to someone and convince them to vote.
I've convinced three international voters (so far) to do their civic duty. I'm almost sure (but not certain) they've Party voted Green. 💚💚💚
Not sure. Quite possibly. She died in Hamilton hospital (from Herald report).
Kia Kaha Jacinda Ardern. Tough, tough time to lose a grandmother. If there is poetic justice in this, it's on Suffrage Day: 124 years after NZ led the world in granting women the vote. We are on the eve of electing a female Prime Minister for the second ...
I recall Key saying "cheers Cam" at the end of a speech. I recall being appalled at the time, as it was after Dirty Politics was published. I don't think it's a fake memory.
And lest we forget the insidious role he played over last nine years, John Campbell on Farrar/Key: "On election night 12 years later, having just been made prime minister for a third term, Key triumphantly thanked his pollster, David Farrar, by name: the ...
This was posted in OM yesterday, but it's worth reposting. Desperate pollution from a minority of dairy farmers. Links in the "Read more" section are also worth a read.
Any idea how many under 30s are living overseas?
Margaret Thatcher, 1987 "there is no such thing as society!". Society, 2013: "there is no such thing as Margaret Thatcher".
NZ's very own version of the Hunger Games: your Counsellor friend slaving it out in the District; your nephew's GF living it up in the Capitol.
Remember all the false promises by National of catching up to Australia's GDP per capita? How did that go? Quick Wiki check shows we have GDP of $39k per capita, Australia $49k per capita! (Not that GDP per capita is in anyway useful as an indicator of ...
Thanks Robert. I'm voting Green for my children, my children's children and future people I shall never meet. I want to give them more than the Sun Moon and Stars.......I want to give them a piece of habitable earth, where they can think about what to gift...
: - ) :-) .....oops it slipped!
+1 Tax the "bad", $ubsidi$e the "good". Redistribute within the agri sector.
I think I understand you: Green politics got hijacked? I can understand, say for example decriminalizing marijuana use falls into this category....and Green Party can take on a new following on such an issue. I think the Green Parties had to broaden their ...
Carolyn, I was a bit loose with my words there. I meant from early environmental movements based on observation and awareness raising (Carson's Silent Spring) and 1960s/70s environmental protest groups, which thereafter became politically mobilised.
Thank you for your reply Xanthe. I am not familiar enough with the history and intricacies of NZ Green Party, or details of any reverse/change in their "restatement", to get themselves over 5%, so can't comment on that. However, I think you raise a broader...
Anyone know of any historical incidences or regulatory experiments where it was required to divide profits (or any proportion thereof, for e.g 50%) to workers, then remaining proportion goes to business owner/shareholders? I realise this in essence is a ...
I've been there, done that and got the t-shirt. It broke my heart not to vote Julie Anne Genter in 2014.
+1 and getting new incentives to change direction
Hi Steve. I read your comments yesterday with interest: about farmers cutting down trees to avoid designation of special areas of conservation. I have also come across this (anecdote of one farm only!), and find it depressing that the incentives for ...
Hi again Xanthe. I too am optimistic about this new policy. Could you clarify what you meant by "The wisdom of the greens was that their path to ending poverty was environmental sustainability. when they turned that wisdom on its head they lost the plot (...
I think Kaye is well liked and respected in the NP, so perhaps she can be relentlessly positive too, and instill some compassion into her NP colleagues!
Xanthe, I don't think the Greens have ever lost their purpose. I am second guessing that you think Greens should not have been focusing on poverty reduction? If that is what you alluded to, I cannot agree with you. Poverty, inequality and degraded ...
A shared model: we all own the problem and the solution. Great post Weka, and thanks for all the links. Busy day reading ahead of me!
Why resort to how a politician looks?! And why does it seem to be fair game to comment on female politicians and how they look?Regardless of her political beliefs, I take my hat off to Nikki Kaye, coming back into politics so soon after undergoing cancer ...
Confound the Science Nice melodic parody on Trump! Peace to all.....and good luck to the Greens launching their climate change policy later today in Auckland.
Green Party in Ireland were in coalition government during the GFC. After the fallout of the govt backing the banks and essentially burdening the taxpayers with debt for the foreseeable ever, the GP paid the price. Green Party took the brunt of it and now ...
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