Last Straw

No Right Turn on the NZ National/ACT government’s oppos­i­tion to a new bill that would make it a national crim­inal offence for any New Zea­l­and polit­ical leader to “plan, pre­pare, ini­ti­ate or execute an act of aggres­sion” in viol­a­tion of the UN Charter. … when Wayne Mapp says he doesn’t want our for­eign policy to be subject […]

No Right Turn on the NZ National/ACT gov­ern­ment giv­ing them­selves a pay rise dur­ing a reces­sion and refus­ing to jus­tify it. It’s much the same situ­ation here in the UK. Politi­cians have a deep sense of enti­tle­ment and non-accountability when it comes to rais­ing their income and expenses levels, but are quite happy to spend millions […]