Home
> The Body Politic > From the National Party Politburo…
From the National Party Politburo…
.
.
The latest diktat from Commissar Parata: no more criticism of National Party policy will be tolerated.
This blogger now awaits the National Party hierarchy to send in state security (Police? Army? SIS?) to raid offices and homes of School Trustees.
As we saw with police raids on various media offices after the Teapot Tape debacle, National is not averse to using it’s State apparatus when it suits it’s agenda.
Tertiary Education Commissar, Steven Joyce issued similar instructions to University students, to cease their criticsms of National,
.
.
So much for respect for freedom of speech.
Will blogs be next?
.
.
= fs =
Categories: The Body Politic
Tags: Hekia Parata, Politburo, Steven Joyce
Leave a Reply Cancel reply
Notice Board
For a better New Zealand…
~ Cleaner rivers
~ No deep-sea oil drilling
~ Less on Roads - more on Rail
~ Minimum wage @ $15 p/hr
~ Marriage equality
~ Strong, effective Unions
~ No secret free-trade deals
~ Breakfast/lunches in our schools
~ Introducing Civics into our school curriculum
~ Cut back on the liquor industry
~ A fairer, progressive tax system
~ Fully funded, free healthcare
~ Ditto for education, including Tertiary
~ Fund Pharmac for Pompe's Disease medication & other 'orphan' drugs
~ No state asset sales!
~ Rebuild public TV broadcasting!
~ Keeping farms in local ownership
~ Reduce poverty, like we reduced the toll for road-fatalities
~ Jobs, Jobs, Jobs!
~ Being nice to each other
Recent Posts
- Budget 2013: petrol taxes
- Budget 2013: Student debt, politicians, and “social contracts”
- The Right has a new media voice
- Budget 2013: State Housing and the War on Poor
- Budget 2013: Radio NZ and politicians
- Budget 2013: Suffer the little children… to starve
- Brain fades and balls ups
- Citizen A: With Martyn Bradbury, Keith Locke & Matthew Hooton On Budget + Key’s Deal + Gilmore Wrap
- Budget 2013: How NOT to deal with Student loan defaulters
- Meridian Power?
- *** UP-DATED! *** NEWSFLASH!!! *** On TV3′s Campbell Live Wednesday night!
- John Key advocates theft by banks?
- On child poverty, to the Sunday Star Times…
- National on Child Poverty?!
- ***Breaking News*** Judith Collins issues decision on MMP Review!
- Binding future governments – a question.
- Skycity: National prostitutes New Zealand yet again
- Why a Four Year Parliamentary Term is not a Good Idea
- National Party Corporate welfare vs real welfare
- The NZ Taliban – quietly safeguarding our morals
- Citizen A: Martyn Bradbury, Chris Trotter & Selwyn Manning on Key’s Spy Bills + Dying Cities + Aaron Gilmore
- Talkback Radio, Public Radio, and related matters…
- John Key on Aaron Gilmore
- 2013 – Ongoing jobless talley
- An Occupation to remind the Government…
The Podium
News Archives
Stop the TPPA
Save Radio New Zealand
Inside Child Poverty in New Zealand
Kidscan – Supporting disadvantaged Kiwi Kids
No Asset Sales
Essential Viewing/Listening
International Orgs.
Media Links
Planet of the Blogs
- Bowalley Road
- Brian Edwards Media
- Domestic Electricity Users Network
- Fearfactsexposed
- Fightback!
- Forest & Bird
- Frogblog
- Gordon Campbell
- Hot Topic
- Ideologically Impure
- John Pilger
- Keep NZ Working
- kiwi blog
- Kiwi Blogger Daily
- Kiwi Pete
- KJT – KT
- Kumara Republic
- Labour Start
- Mars 2 Earth
- Maui Street
- NZ Leftwing
- Pundit
- Putting NZ First
- Red Alert
- Sustainable Energy Forum
- Tangatawhenua.com
- Tewhareporahou
- The Civilian
- The Daily Blog
- The Dim Post
- The Hand Mirror
- The Jackal
- The Occupied NZ Herald
- The Political Scientist
- The Standard
- Topical
- Transparency nz
- Tumeke!
- Waitakere News
- Watchblog Aotearoa
- Wellington Region Cycleways
- Werewolf
- Whoar!
Political Parties
Resources
- BERL Economics
- Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
- Debt Clock – New Zealand
- Farm Land Grab
- General Elections in NZ
- History Commons
- List of countries by tax revenue as percentage of GDP
- List of New Zealand by-elections
- N.A.S.A. – Climate Change
- Referendums in NZ
- State Asset Sales History
- Tax rates around the world
- The New Zealand Government Directory
- Trading Economics – NZ Economic Data
- Wikipedia
Social Media Groups
- All New Zealand Media
- Aotearoa is Not for Sale Wellington
- Bomber's Blog – The War on News
- Campaign for Marriage Equality New Zealand
- Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG)
- Children of Aotearoa
- Coal Action Network Aotearoa
- Community Campaign for Food in Schools – NZ
- DiscussioNZ
- Feed The Kids
- Forest & Bird
- GayNZ
- Hector's and Maui's dolphin SOS
- Inside Child Poverty New Zealand
- It's Our Future – Kiwis concerned about the TPPA
- John Banks do the honourable thing and resign
- John Key has Let Down New Zealand
- Keep Our Assets
- KidsCanNZ
- Kiwi Expats Against Asset Sales
- NZers for a snap election 2012
- Occupy NZ
- Occupy WINZ
- Palestine Human Rights Campaign (New Zealand)
- Pre-register your disinterest in buying Mighty River shares
- S.O.S Save.OUR.Shores
- Save Fiordland
- Save Otago from Deep Sea Oil Drilling! (OIL FREE OTAGO)
- Save our Schools – Christchurch Needs your Suppport !!!!!!
- Save Radio New Zealand
- Save The Basin Reserve
- Say No To Fracking In New Zealand
- Service and Food Workers Union – Nga Ringa Tota
- Stand up for kids – protect our schools
- Stop the Search and Surveillance Bill Now!
- Tibet Solidarity Network (Wellington, New Zealand)
- TPPA Action Group
- United Nations For a Free Tibet
- Vote Out National 2014
- We Don't Need Your Charter Schools
- Wellingtonians against Welfare Reform
Uber Cool Internetty Places
- 65 Every St – David Bain Case
- All Out
- Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa
- Campaign for a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly
- David Suzuki Foundation
- Domestic Electricity Users Network
- Flying Blind
- Friends of Tibet
- Greenpeace
- guestauthorfranklyspeaking
- John Key Looks At Things
- John Pilger
- Kia Ora Gaza
- Kiwi Expats Against Asset Sales
- Living Wage Campaign
- Richard Dawkins Foundation
- Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand
- Royal Society of New Zealand
- S.E.T.I.
- Save Our Schools NZ
- Save the Farms
- The Equality Trust
- The Virtual Museum of Bacteria
- Transparency.Org
- Voluntary Euthanasia Society
- Wikileaks
- Xkcd
Useful Utilities
Archives
Tags
ACT
Air New Zealand
asset sales
Bill English
child poverty
Crafar farms
David Shearer
Dear Leader
free market
Green Party
Greens
Hekia Parata
John Banks
john key
Kim Dotcom
Labour
Labour Party
lies
Mana Party
Maori Party
maritime workers
Mighty River Power
minimum wage
National
National government
Overseas Investment Office
Paula Bennett
Peter Dunne
Phil Goff
PoAL
police
Ports of Auckland
prime minister
Radio NZ
Roy Morgan
Sky City
Solid Energy
state asset sales
tax cuts
tony ryall
TV3
TVNZ7
unemployment
winston peters
WINZ
Boards of trustees are parents elected to run schools. As such they have a DUTY to speak on such matters. They aren’t government employees.
Whn in Oppostion they ( Nats) often accused labour of being ‘Nanny State’. Ironically they are more nanny state then Labour ever were. Freedom of speech is slowly being eroded by this government
What a load of cobblers. Have you heard them in ‘the house”? Boasrds have every right to say what they think – it’s called self-management!
Parent elected Trustees can and should criticise and oppose Government policy if necessary; it is their democratic right to do so.. It is taxpayer money that Governments spend – not National party funds. This government is fascist and will make the biggest bang ever heard at an election – the bang they make at the bottom of a lift shaft. Key may find that he is not wanted overseas once he is finished with NZ politics.
“”My general advice to NZUSA (NZ Union of Students’ Associations) on the cost of living for students is to keep your heads down because actually most people probably think you’re doing OK.”
Oh ok, just ignore a bit of a reality check Steven. Just because some people think that, doesn’t mean it *is*. And this coming from a man who had his entire education fully funded, zero fees, zero loan, naturally…
So, they’ve done away with the only station with educational content, effectively a NZ-style “burning of the books”, and having gotten rid of content that will wake most people up, they’re fully into their program of directing what people ought to be thinking and concerned about, because they are simply quasi-fascists – and here I was thinking their supporters wanted an END to the so-called invasive “nanny state” directing what we think and do!!! But it’s alright I guess if it’s National and it’s top down direction, our betters, those titans of industry we must continually aspire to emulate!!!
Roger Waters had an opinion on that in “Welcome to the Machine”
“Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.
What did you dream? It’s alright we told you what to dream.”
To which the only answer Students and informed people must give is yet another lyric from the mouth of Roger…
“I gotta admit that I’m a little bit confused
Sometimes it seems to me as if I’m just being used
Gotta stay awake, gotta try and shake off this creeping malaise
If I don’t stand my own ground, how can I find my way out of this maze?”
If you care about this land and the people, make it your default policy to do the opposite of whatever the National party regime suggests you do or don’t do.
Funny thing, Chem, that’s now my “second instinct”…