On Sunday, July 6, 1:00pm – 2:30pm at the Michael Fowler Centre, 111 Wakefield Street, Wellington, David Cunliffe will deliver his keynote speech at the 2014 Labour Party Congress. If you are in Wellington, you need to be at this as it will be Cunliffe’s big moment to reset the political agenda in time for the election. Expect big policy announcements and big vision statements.
3 weeks is a very long time in politics.
As Winston would say Cunliffe will be gone by Monday.
Let me guess what he will say:
1. Infinite growth on a finite planet is both possible and desirable.
2. There is no such thing as Peak Oil, and energy supplies will arrive out of nowhere whenever required.
3. Climate change is a myth and the Earth is getting cooler. There are no unprecedented droughts or floods.
4. Ocean acidification is of no significance whatsoever, and we certainly do not need plankton to keep the oceans alive.
5. Money printing is fine, especially if you can offer zero interest to savers (or even better, negative interest rates). Ponzi schemes forever.
6. New Zealand can compete with China if people try harder and learn to live on just two bowls of rice a day.
7. Labour has a plan for growing rice in NZ.
If the labour spokes people on the environment and energy are doing what they are paid to do (specifically down play anything that will up set the PIMs) , then you are right.
Like Cullen saying he had never heard of peak oil, (like years after ‘we’ had been informing them all), so go Moana, it seams nothing has changed.
But we got Kiwi Saver, yeah
Fewknowthetruth, When it comes to climate, change peak oil, energy shocks and resource deplection. I understand that you are engaging in exagerated hyperbole to make a point, but if David Cunliffe made any statements, anywhere near, to even one of the ones, you claim he will. Based on his previous statements, it would be one of the biggest political U turns made by any political leader in this country’s history ever.
As you see Few, David Cunliffe ticks off all the topics which you claim he will now repudiate.
David Cunliffe could not even make one of your numbered statements above.
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