Tag: politics
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The Alliance Strikes Back
What does the Alliance have to offer the modern-day voter? Harrison McEvoy May 01, 2026 It’s not often I write about pure politics. A while back I wrote about the need for a return to working class politics in this country, and expressed frustration at the lack of attention from the current parties towards key…
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Final Council meeting of the 22/25 triennium
Well that’s meeting #602 of the Canterbury Regional Council done and dusted along with the end of this triennium. (officially 22 days to go) The big talking point of course was the passing of the Notice of Motion by Councillor Vicky Southworth that Council Declares a ‘Nitrate Emergency’. There is a ton of information on…
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Council meeting 591, 27 November “how to flip flop your reasoning in the space of one agenda item”.
We had Council meeting 591 today and I left it feeling a bit like a ‘rock em sock em robot’, having had two attempts at a code of conduct breach levelled at me and seeing two major decisions defy my logic. The first involved an opposite view to a Councillor and the second the use…
Greg Byrnes 