There’s been a big fuss recently about social media posts showing Green Party and Te Pāti Māori MPs a with Mongrel Mob members. My first reaction was, sure, meet with the gangs but why allow it to go public? And then I wondered whether I’d have the same reaction to politicians meeting with billionaires…
Presidential candidate Bolsonaro in Brazil has sparked a meme where people write self-descriptions on their hands after he wrote ‘corrupto’. Mistake! He was referring to his opponent but now everyone sees it as Bolsonaro’s self-description. How would you describe yourself in one or two words that fit on your hand?
Who to vote for this election? And why does one even bother voting when the options seem so poor? And the chances of your personal vote being important are miniscule. Actually, there is a good reason…
NZ is waiting to get a new government. Winston Peters, stalwart politician since 1979, is influencing the outcome and I’m having to like him more than I thought I did.
What does one need to know? World news? Election results? The names of flowers? Or just the number of kilometres to your destination?
The general election is coming, like Christmas but even less fun than hearing Snoopy’s Christmas every day for two months. The hoardings are up. So how do they look?
New Zealand is a country where you can change the course of an election by asking someone a question …
Reading fiction and reading election promises – they’re pretty much the same. Except fiction is generally based in reality. All the parties in the NZ election want to spend more but where is the more going to come from?
Could the government be dragging its feet on a trans-Tasman bubble because the surest way to lose the upcoming election would be a major COVID outbreak? And it’s dragging its feet by not paying attention to the slack state of quarantine procedures? Next I’ll be seeing communists in the cupboards!
