Daily review 26/10/2022
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Why won’t Labour help disabled people out of poverty?
The sheer waste of so many people’s talent, energy and lives is staggering. It doesn’t have to be that way. So why is it?
Open mike 26/10/2022
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Bruce’s Reckons: The increased speculation about Chris Luxon quitting
Leader of the Opposition Christopher Luxon turned up to Parliament today and his media spin doctors will be hoping for some good photo opportunities to lift his popularity. But they will be asking a lot.
Daily review 25/10/2022
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Open mike 25/10/2022
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Labour day
Enjoying your weekend? Thank a unionist!
Open mike 24/10/2022
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What are National’s constituent tribes?
Russ Jones has described the five tribes of the UK Conservative Party as including One Nation Conservatives, xenophobic English nationalists, wild-eyed libertarians, scatty populist bullshitters and machine politicians.
Open mike 23/10/2022
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Open mike 22/10/2022
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Daily review 21/10/2022
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Wind Farms Need Mines
We need more mines if we are to transition to low carbon. There’s a field of industry that National and Labour could readily […]
The lettuce won
Over in the UK Liz Truss has bowed to the inevitable and has announced her resignation as leader of the Conservative Party.
Open mike 21/10/2022
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Daily review 20/10/2022
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Groundswell or Deep Earth?
Groundswell want degenerative agriculture.
Wayne Brown’s letters
Wayne Brown (or is that Matthew Hooton) has over the past few days released a series of letters that are astonishing in their audacity. His latest on transport proposes business as usual at a time when dramatic change is required.
Open mike 20/10/2022
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Daily review 19/10/2022
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Stand up and fight
Don’t give up. Don’t retrench into reactionary blocking politics. We have more choices for action and transition, and creating regenerative and sustainable systems, than ever before.
Sharma Sharma Sharma Sharma Sharma Chameleon
Gaurav Sharma has announced his immediate resignation from Parliament and that he will contest the by election as leader of a new centrist party. He also claims that the Government was going to waka jump him six months from the next election but unless National agrees this is impossible.
Open mike 19/10/2022
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Daily review 18/10/2022
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The Auckland Mayor’s powers
Wayne Brown has by Mayoral decree ordered Watercare to stop working on the Three Waters reform. But he should take legal advice because his decree has absolutely no legal force.
Open mike 18/10/2022
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Daily review 17/10/2022
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How Brexit Shanked Britain
The political and economic disasters now unfolding in Britain are the responsibility of the Conservative Party from their 2016 Brexit vote through to now.
Open mike 17/10/2022
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What conflict of interest
National’s attacks on Nanaia Mahuta for conflicts of interest have suffered a major blow after National MP Barbara Kuriger was forced to resign her portfolios for using official letterhead to harass MPI officials.
Sunflower | Oil
Van Gogh and Picasso as climate action targets. Destroying beauty is an act of self harm. On one level it’s wrong, but when we are desperate, it’s also an act of power.
Open mike 16/10/2022
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Minister Robertson, UK Pensions, and Risk
The political question is whether Kiwis currently losing money on paper can remember this: all investment involves risk and it’s entirely fair for our government to only manage so much of that risk and for the rest to fall on us the investor. Will irrational anxiety beat rational risk in our upcoming politics?
Even more anarchy in the UK
I never thought that I would write a post suggesting that Boris Johnson’s reign as UK Prime Minister was not so bad. But that is the state that we have reached as Liz Truss sacks Kwasi Kwarteng for implementing her policies. And polling suggests that if an election was held tomorrow the Tories could win as few as four seats.
Open mike 15/10/2022
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Daily review 14/10/2022
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