Waatea 5th Estate Special – Political Wrap of the Week

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Joining us 7pm Tonight to wrap the political week

 NZ First MP – Tracey Martin

Former Leader of the Labour Party –  David Cunliffe

Former TVNZ News boss, former Editor of Metro and current Auckland Council candidate – Bill Ralston

 

 

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  1. Have to say I was most impressed by David Cunliffe. And my god, whats been happening in NZ First?Wouldn’t be surprised if they pull out the stops in 2017
    Ralston had nothing of interest to say, in fact he has lost his mental acuity entirely.
    Waatea is a great venue with the shabby couch and ever slipping blanket, the low budget sound system and shambolic arrangements are such an antidote to the total crapola of the 80s rock star easy listening glitz , stars and stripes, smoke and mirrors,cowboy hats ,and empty rhetoric and hypocrisy of the DNC I have been watching, to my spiritual detriment.

    • Agree David Cunliffe is very impressive indeed !! Enjoyed this debate alot and thought David and Tracey were awesome and on the same page, Martyn Bradbury enjoyed hosting, really like his cheeky, cute smiles and laughs.

      Bill Rollston? Big Nat Flop and he fluffed at trying to defend the indefensible John key and his Nats.

      • Agree, David Cunliffe is by far the smartest, and most capable one in Labour’s caucus, so why is his talent still wasted somewhere on the back-benches?

        Labour needs smart men and women more than ever, to offer the solutions for the future challenges, but as we see, they are dominated by rather mediocre people leading the way.

        A good discussion at least, on Waatea 5th Estate, Rolston was in the minority, so it does not matter much what he had to say, he was repeatedly turning to the left and right, I presume he realised, his view was a minority view of little relevance.

        • It doesn’t matter where David Cunliffe sits, his talents are not wasted imo. At least he is no longer being crucified by the media and can on with doing the great job that he does.

          I don’t know about mediocre, I’m distrustful of the lying pretend rock star who thinks he is a legends in his own mind that’s driving the country into rack and ruin.

          Like Andrew Little said, he’s no show pony. maybe it’s time NZ had an honest PM that is cautious, caring and is prepared to work for this country, rather than being more interested in where his next photo op is coming from.

  2. Another great episode.
    Cunliffe and Martin were great. Rawston waste of space in my view, would have preferred the greens there since they were one of the topics.

    Was disappointed that unitary plan was talked about so positively as it was a joke of justice when u look beneath the covers which nobody bothered to do. At the same time of getting rid of heritage, getting rid of affordable criteria, they keep one of the wealthiest streets with graham hart mansions on it unchanged. Personally think the left are completely hoodwinked on the issues – zoning will not build houses and those housing built do not have to be affordable and there are special exemptions for the rich listers properties. What happened to fairness for all? Instead inequality is baked into the laughingly democratic unitary plan process and the left are big cheerleaders because they can’t see past Nationals lies that the unitary plan is about affordable housing and who are we intensifying for – we have a fairly static birth rate?

    As for labours first home owners homespolicy, what’s the point when we have so many new people flooding into the county who will also probably need their first home too?

    Property is a mess that whether house prices rise or fall will create unacceptable results for kiwis. Why labour & greens obsess on it while being an election vote killar no matter what solution they propose I do not understand. But a rogue poll last month had the left down at the same time they announced their housing policy and got through warm dry homes. Interestingly Natz let that policy through – maybe they ran the numbers and realised it was unpopular for the left.

    Can the left be smart and actually get a change of government through without sabotaging themselves for no good reason?

    If they ran on TPP for example, public transport, stop the rip offs, stop closing schools, have a real solutions 2 diversify the economy into value added rather than just complaining about housing but then demanding unpopular solutions that killed them last election?

    Cunnliffe is also right to ask the question what the hell is fonterra doing?

    Labour and greens need to diversify their media time from housing in my view and they need 2 agree policy closer too – otherwise the media just talk about non unity just like last time.

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