Yesterday, the Labour Party declared some of us live in slums
Before I even address the issue of slums, why is it that the Labour Party strategy is to go for excessive hyperbole? It just polarises people straight away. How many years before they understand that more new votes lie in the middle, not on the far left?
That aside, slums.
India has over 40,000 slums housing about 10 million people. With few exceptions, these slum homes feature:
- NO electricity
- NO in-home toilet
- NO in-home shower
- NO gas to cook on
- NO potable water from a tap
- NO facility to do laundry
and its inhabitants receive:
- NO government provided welfare.
Let’s compare that New Zealand slum homes, that feature: Read more »

As much at home writing editorials as being the subject of them, Cam has won awards, including the Canon Media Award for his work on the Len Brown/Bevan Chuang story. When he’s not creating the news, he tends to be in it, with protagonists using the courts, media and social media to deliver financial as well as death threats.
They say that news is something that someone, somewhere, wants kept quiet. Cam Slater doesn’t do quiet and, as a result, he is a polarising, controversial but highly effective journalist who takes no prisoners.
He is fearless in his pursuit of a story.
Love him or loathe him, you can’t ignore him.
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