Game on – a message from David Cunliffe

1. Yes David.It’s game on alright, and I personally will be doing my utmost to help bring about a change in government.
   It is my belief N.Z.is very fortunate to have a person of your calibre going into bat for us, but it is very disturbing that we have a media who continually practice obfuscation of the Labour message.For example;the reporting of your very good and important speech given today, barely received a mention on both tv1 and 3 news @6pm.None of the content was reported so the public are left completely in the dark .Instead the focus was on an inane fictitious side issue about Shane Jones.This is not good enough by tv1 – a taxpayer funded channel .The radio stations are no better.
   For N.Zs’ sake change can’t come soon enough.We are with you every step of the way!

2. “We want a community that is fair and decent, one where we are proud to be New Zealanders, where we treasure our environment, where we care about our communities. And we can’t get that from a government that is pandering to the big end of town and looking after its mates.”

   “We are in for the fight of our lives.”

   David Cunliffe

   It is hard to believe that David Cunliffe is serious about winning, or as he puts it, ” the fight of our lives”, when he lets Shane Jones charge around the country like a bull in a china shop dissing the Greens, Labour’s only viable coalition partner the only one likely to provide them the majority to govern.

   When the Right was in charge of his party they had no mercy on shipping him off to the back benches at the slightest excuse, so why can’t he act with the same determined ruthlessness against the wreckers of the Right?

   A viable coalition with the Greens will be impossible with Shane Jones in the same cabinet as any Green MPs. Why can’t Cunliffe admit this?

   The personal abuse and invective we have witnessed from Shane Jones would destroy any chance of any proper and respectful working relationship.
   With the likes of Shane Jones and David Parker, both committed environmental vandals, in a Labour dominated cabinet the Green MPs would have to agree to be totally subservient, either that or walk at the first major conflict.

   Come on Cunliffe if you want us to believe you are really serious about winning put these fossil fuel dinosaurs on the back benches.

   60% of those polled want the government to do more on climate change.

   80% of those polled oppose deep sea oil drilling.

   David Parker says Labour and National’s policies on oil drilling and coal mining are almost the same.

   Until these contradictions are sorted, Cunliffe will be seen as inefectual and not to be serious about winning.

   • I agree Jenny. People like Shane Jones need to STFU or piss off. The enemy is the Right, not other leftwing groups.

     Anyone who doesn’t get that is doing the Nat’s bidding whether or not they realise that.

     Message to Shane Jones: maybe it’s time to move on mate!!

3. We need to see some policies that make us believe its worth supporting Labour. At the moment whenever I discuss politics, which is every day, the discussion never seems to be positive about Labour.
   – Is tertiary education going to continue to be user pays?
   – Will the lifetime of university debt still remain?
   – Will the minimum wage go up more than 25 cents?
   – Everyone is waiting to see the rich taxed more. That would have been the first thing I announced.
   – What about employee rights?
   – We need another state housing policy like we did post-WWII
   – And we need institutional welfare, not this targeted neoliberal tinkering.

   These are the basics. It’s not fucken rocket science. Keep people out of debt. Give people affordable housing. Give them jobs.
   (affordable housing means affordable to the poorest person in NZ, not the top 10%)

   Yes that means tax the rich, put the boot into those twats, that’s what you’re there for Mr Cunliffe.
   The rich and powerful are never going to vote Labour, so stop caring about what they think.

4. I found David Cunliffe’s speech to the New Zealand Initiative somewhat confusing. He started off by saying he was concerned at the low quality of much of what we were producing and wanted to take companies on a journey of moving from volume to value. He then said part of the problem was the high NZ dollar which he would reduce so as our exports would be cheaper and we could sell more. More equates to volume, not value. One exporter has said if this happens he will go broke as his business relies on the high dollar for value which earns him more than a lower dollar and volume. The PERCEPTION is David Cunliffe seems to be contradicting himself.

   • JC,

     If I were you I would go back to school. about year 4 should do it. Oh and take that exporter with you… the lower the New Zealand dollar the more of them he gets upon conversion.

   • He really has no idea, JC. The speech contained some incredibly naive economic ideas. The only good news is I doubt he’ll ever get to implement it.

     • Well, IV, they certainly can’t be any worse than this current so-called “government’s” clueless administration. But then, National supporters tend to turn a blind eye to the incompetencies of the their own MPs.

       Personally, I look forward to another sustained period of low unemployment; good wage growth; and rise in GDP, as happened under Labour in 2000-08. (And never mind your lies – they’ve been well and truly demolished by now.)

5. “Big end of town” sounds like something Australian Labor says. Yuck.

   1. Tie and gag SeaLord Jones before he does more damage.
   2. Get rid of the Rogernomes.
   3. Bring in a State Housing program.
   4. Sack anyone who mentions raising the retirement age.
   5. Bring in a school breakfast program.
   6. Reinstate social security as something which helps those who can’t work retain their dignity.
   7. Demolish the spy agencies and run a public inquiry about what we want and need.
   8. Fix the student loan mess, where educated Kiwis are threatened with arrest if they come home.
   9. Free Teina Pora and prosecute the poaka who fitted him up.
   10. Treat Mana and the Greens as worthy of respect. FPP is long gone.

   Nothing radical there, but it would win my electorate vote. What’s so hard about any of that which would have half the Labour people eating dead rats rather than promoting these ten simple ideas?

6. One exporter has said if this happens he will go broke as his business relies on the high dollar for value which earns him more than a lower dollar and volume.

   Sorry, JC, but that makes absolutely NO SENSE whatsoever. Exporters rely on a low dollar, not high. Only importers seek a higher dollar as that means they have to pay less for goods imported into NZ.

   Either you misunderstood your source or s/he is having you on.

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