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Splenetic
joined 2 years ago
I disagree. ALL churches should lose charity status.
Policy aside, he's just bad at his job. Totally out of his depth. (Politics included he's even worse)
They're just openly being their worst selves this time around. I wonder if they have any plans beyond burning it all down?
It is standard in NZ
He is an absolute piece of shit, and yet undeniably good at talking for an hour and saying less than nothing
You make some good points, my comment was originally 3x longer at first but I cut it down in the interest of not rehashing 185 years of history
Hilarious that I, in NZ, can't see this!
Re NZ politics - Yes and no.
The currect situation is due to some very specific circumstances thst emerged in the chaos of the last 10 years.
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The centre left Labour Party & PM were hugely popular during covid & won an unheard of majority (normally our electoral system requires a coalition). A swing back to the centre-right was inevitable.
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The centre right National party, usually our most popular party, had their leadership retire & endured years of in-fighting that made them unelectable
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Because of this, they've bled a lot of voters to the "libertarian" & "centrist" parties (ACT & NZ First)
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Also because of this, the current National Party leader is rather inexperienced & has given up some things in the coalition agreements that are more extreme than the public likes leading to record breaking protests.
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The "centrist" party leader (Winston Peters) is a whole thing that I can't neatly summarize, but imagine a political party designed to cater exclusively to the oldest & dumbest 5% of voters run by that Monorail guy from The Simpsons
In summary, less a slide right & more a correction back to status quo + a few unpopular chaos agents
Nau mai ki Aotearoa e hoa. (Welcome to New Zealand, friend)
This really is a master class in how to handle hostile news media
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