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Simon Bridges twitter account (is that you Hamish?) and Nigel Latta have engaged in an interesting battle on Twitter recently. And it is straight out of the Trump play book. The tactic appears to be to pick a fight with someone who could be smeared…
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No Right Turn reports, Last year the government gave us the biggest ever increase in the minimum wage, from $15.50 to $17.70 an hour. This year, they're doing it again: New Zealand's minimum wage will rise to $18.90 an hour from April 1, the Government…
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Yet another report was released this month, by the Children's Commissioner, showing the dire state of children's poverty in NZ. Along with various commentary across the MSM on the situation and what should be done, was the idea of a child 'pension'. Unfortunately, economist Shamubeel…
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There is lots to pick over in the UK election result. Weka has this outstanding post on the subject that I agree with wholeheartedly. There was this incredible breakdown of voting intentions showing how stark the generational divide was. https://twitter.com/georgeeaton/status/1205535498065846272 If you equate class to…
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You couldn't pay me to vote for a right wing party, so it's hard to imagine under what conditions someone who has traditionally voted Labour for decades would now vote for the Tories in the UK General Election. On the other hand, I can understand…
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At 2.11pm on Monday December 16, New Zealanders are being invited to hold a minute's silence to respect those who have died in the White Island/Whakaari explosion. Once that's over, it's time to start turning to what might occur to prevent this kind of disaster…
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This post is a place for positive discussion of the future. An Open Mike for ideas, solutions and the discussion of the possible. The Big Picture, rather than a snapshot of the day’s goings on. Topics rather than topical. We’d like to think it’s…
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Filmmakers drift through a life awash with half-formed fragments of story, brushing against our skin like driftwood. Most we can never tell, or just never will. If we let ourselves fall in love with all of them the constant awareness of loss would be overwhelming.…
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Let’s frame this in leftie terms: can you get in, do grunty policy moves, and stay popular? With the United Kingdom loss by Labour to the Conservatives to a healthy majority, it’s worth asking whether all the manifesto idealism was worth it. It seriously didn’t…
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In 2017, during the NZ election campaign, we ran a small handful of posts as dedicated discussion space for lefties. You can see the introduction and kaupapa here. Today's post is to create some solid left wing (and troll-free) space to talk about the UK…
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Originally posted on Nick Kelly's blog One of the more surprising policy announcements from UK Labour during this election campaign is their free broadband policy. Described by the BBC as Broadband Communism (maybe someone should point out to the BBC how they are funded) the policy…
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Originally posted Nick Kelly's blog Get Brexit done. Its all Boris Johnson says. If he is asked about the NHS, the economy, education, climate change what he ate for breakfast last night all you gets is “well, um ah, that’s a well, we a need to…
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Not that you'd know it from reading any UK newspaper headline of late, but the polls that pop media has used to undermine UK Labour's election prospects have a couple of glaring glitches. As Zoe Williams reported in yesterday's Guardian, none of the predictions flowing…
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The island of Bouganville has just had a vote towards independence from Papua New Guinea. It's not binding on the Papua New Guinea state, but it has of course raised expectation state statehood awaits. Bouganville relies on Papua New Guinea for the bulk of its…
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Stuff reported a few days ago that the Greens have dumped their policy on the Budget Responsibility Rules (PDF). The most stringent rules include a commitment to reduce net core Crown debt to less than 20 per cent of GDP within five years, and to…
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https://twitter.com/robellcampbin/status/1204555153027686401 Green Party press release. _______________________________________________________________________ The Greens in Government have today won a significant investment to help move the public sector estate onto clean, renewable energy, Green Party Co-leader, James Shaw, said today. As part of the Government’s capital investment package announced today,…