Yawn - nothing compared with the Maori Party bottom line of a wealth tax which Hipkins has staked his leadership on.
Try harder, BS - Hipkins’ falling poll rating must be screwing up your mind.
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Iceman, while you minimise the comment that you'd think they were paid by National, Mike Hosking is a talkback host AND he is a supporter of the center-right National party and is often openly critical of the Labour-led government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Hosking
Meanwhile, here’s the ex police minister Hipkins and Ginny #4 police minister crying crocodile tears over the dairy robbery in Auckland yesterday.
Anyone out there believe the two hypocrites after their pro-crime & pro-gang policies?
Time for a change - vote in National & ACT.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/new-wi...KIE76FEWC7XGU/
“People should be safe in their businesses. I’m going to back the police completely ... and where necessary, we are changing the law to be able to give the police more tools to do that,” Hipkins said.
Police and Justice Minister Ginny Andersen called the attack a “completely abhorrent act of violence”.
“My thoughts are with the victims and their family,” Andersen said. ”This is something that no New Zealander should have to experience.”
In the article Act’s justice spokesperson Nicole McKee said “workers on the frontline are facing an increasingly violent New Zealand.”
“Dairy owners and other small retailers are now putting themselves inside cages so criminals can’t get behind the counter. There is no place for this kind of senseless violence in New Zealand,” she said.
Calling it senseless violence is not helpful. Senseless violence? Really? We do understand the violence by asking the people who commit it why they did it, and understanding the context of violence in their life. There is plenty of research to show violence begets violence.
Making Sense of Senseless Violence.
“As a sociology professor and researcher at Harvard, I learned about such violence by talking to men and women who were leaving prison and returning to neighborhoods around Boston. Violence shrouded this research. Many people I spoke to had explosive tempers, delivered beatings, stabbings, and shot at their assailants. As teenagers, they got in brutal fights. And after prison, in their thirties and forties, some continued to raise hell among their partners, children, and neighbors.”
“Most of those I interviewed were victims of serious violence and witnesses to violence since early childhood,’ says Professor Bruce Western.
Untreated addiction, mental illness, homelessness, and deep poverty combined to produce environments in which the respondents were often victims one day and offenders the next.
Violence and the abuse of children, in particular, prick our moral reflexes. We shrink away and demonize the abusers. But violent environments rarely present a bright line between victims and offenders. People who commit the most horrifying crimes have often suffered the darkest victimization.
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2...eless-violence
That's an unusual response.
Unless you think Labour, Greens & Te Pati Maori are going to win the election, therefore negotiating a coalition agreement, why are you still worried & bringing up Te Pati Maori's bottom line as a counter to a NAT/ACT?NZF coalition ?
It's irrelevant, that ship has long since sailed! Or don't you think?
On current polling the focus now (for most of us ) is on the policies, plausibility & integrity of the next govt & make up of Cabinet which is short of a major scandal or trip up, is clearly going to be National & ACT or most likely National ACT & NZF.