NRT: More dictatorship from Brownlee
No Right Turn on the Nats’ contemplating yet another way to trample on democracy in Christchurch.
dictatorships
The Canterbury dictatorship
Puddleglum at The Political Scientist has written an encyclopedic and scathing critique of the Nats’ dictatorship in Canterbury.
NRT – A permanent dictatorship in Canterbury?
NRT continues to provide excellent coverage on the governance of Canterbury.
Do we now kowtow?
The police won’t lay charges against the security guard who assaulted Russel Norman. Fair enough I guess. They’re out of here today. Probably too minor to justify a prosecution. That doesn’t make what happened OK. A thug for a foreign power violated the rights of one of our MPs on the grounds of our Parliament. A display of contempt for our sovereignty. And our democracy.
Turning a blind eye
Unlike some of the other Standard writers, I don’t usually find Fran O-Sullivan too bad but her reporting of Key’s trip to China […]