Labour Party List 2014

1. no stuart nash? also i thought it was head office that did the rankings not the parliamentary wing?

   • Stuart Nash decided not to go on the list this election.

     http://www.hawkesbay.co.nz/general/general/12888-napier-labour-candidate-stuart-nash-not-to-seek-list-position

2. Still rather tiresome that 3 males head the list…surely they could have tried harder with that?

   • On the bright side at least Nanaia is number 6. I may not like national or labour very much. That said, Nanaia is one of the better MPs there is, no matter who you support.

   • What do you mean by “try harder”? I take it that you mean putting ability and appropriateness of that person for the position aside in favour of selection on the basis of gender.

3. Stuart Nash opted not to be on the list.

   Can someone do some analysis to work out the likely female representation? Lets assume Labour reaches 30% of the party vote. Taking into account the electorates Labour is expected to win I’m interested to see if the female quota will be met?

   • thanks

4. Four don’t need to be in top 10, just my opinion, and four from 11 to 20.
   The Labour Party however did this according to their processes. So we should now get on with getting out the vote and winning the election for the combined left bloc.

   The torys seem to have got most of their possible vote out months ago so the left has to get enrolled non voters to vote and unenrolled potential voters to enrol and vote. Play your part and support the NZ Council of Trade Unions campaign, most of this must be done by end of July.
   http://www.getoutandvote.org.nz
   If you help get one workmate, friend or neighbour to be enrolled and voting–Legend.

   • You’re absolutely correct, Tiger Mountain. However, this list won’t motivate anyone to enrol or vote. What we need is a constant drumbeat of clear, no ifs no buts, policies to tell the people what they will get from a Labour government. If our team can’t do this and persist in fudging those policies (as they did with the paid parental leave policy), they don’t deserve our support.

5. Compulsory Kiwi Saver, or in other words “we don’t want to win’.

   To maintain Kiwi Saver there must be global economic growth. No ifs buts or maybes if ‘we’ are going to have growth we have to increase CO2 emissions.
   We probably passed the survivable CO2 level 40-50 years ago, so I guess it doesn’t matter.
   About the only thing to drag me out of the house on election day, would be voting against 1080.

   • Global economic growth does not necessarily mean higher emissions, Mr Atack. You are confusing consumption with production.

     • But historically, there has always been a correlation. Efforts to ‘de-couple’/’de-link’ the two haven’t met with any great, or lasting, success. There’s a good discussion of this in Tim Jackson’s book “Prosperity without Growth”, if anyone’s interested.

       • No, not always. Mostly, especially when the ‘growth’ comes from the public sector and is not really growth at all.

         Ask anyone self employed in the private sector and they will show you that the very reason they are making a profit is because they have successfully decoupled the two.

         it is a lot easier than you think. The key is to spend your own money, not someone else’s.

6. Another Monday morning, another week started nearly throwing the radio alarm clock across the room.

   Marcus Lush, the Gnome of the Gnats harped on at Labour President Moira Coatesworth about the “man-ban” after giving her a condescending radio-jock lesson on how to use a landline phone. His next guest Hoo, yes, the Hooton was given free licence to discuss the man-ban on Labour’s list.

   The very least Lush should do is apologise to Labour’s Moira for his condescending prick attitude to a guest, secondly resign for being biased towards National above and beyond the call-of-duty, like Shane (Labour-leaning) Taurima did

   Tomorrow will be fine for the resignation, or the apology. Preferably both.

7. So talking about a bottle of wine gets my post deleted?

   Wow, and I was talking about a “declared” bottle of wine.

   Maybe its another smear campaign??????

   Lets go lefty hypocrites!!!!

8. At 23% Davis is Out. He will go all out for TTT.

9. According to John Key the only surprise with Labour’s List is that anyone would want to be on it.

10. You demean yourself, and the integrity of this blog, by praising this weak effort at putting together a list capable of exciting the voting public. It is a sure sign that Labour sees no need to change.

    • Labour is unable to change and has been stuck in ‘unconvincing land’ for a long time. It feels hobbled and fractious and unable to pull it’s up above the waterline of public disinterest.
      It’s policies so far have been commended for their economic nous but have done little to engage a satisfied middle class or give hope to the those struggling.
      Why? Labours biggest problem is that John Key simply continued Helen Clarkes pragmatic centrist approach. Sure National have tinkered with labour laws and partially sold state assets but overall they have done nothing radical to upset middle NZ.
      This has left the Labour party in a political wilderness – angry and resentful that National have stolen all their toys and a lot of their ideas.
      Instead re-thinking itself and re-defining what it stands for Labour has been on a self-distracting campaign of attacking the government on every issue from how much a NZ ambassador spent on his flat in London right through to the cost of John Keys family home. Important issues of interest to NZ voters? Um … no.
      It’s policy announcements have been brief and somber affairs that barely register in the miasma of personality politics Labour itself is now so deeply mired in.
      Sorry to be depressing – Cunliffe was supposed to kick butt – he’s done nothing more then threaten to use the naught step and it shows in the parties performance.
      Why didn’t the Labour Parties compulsory kiwi saver policy include subsidizing contributions for the unemployed and low income workers? Why isn’t Labour fighting to include the unemployed in Working For Families tax credits?
      The Labour Party is scared of being left-wing and fighting for the underdog. It doesn’t believe it can convince middle NZ that looking after people who aren’t middle class is a good thing.
      That has got to change – it will take a big shake up and some bloodletting but we can all hope that the Labour Party, will one day, be what it was when it started – a fighter, a social justice campaigner, a genuine re distributor of wealth and a constraining force on free-market capitalism.

11. Thanks for the party list, but can you tell us who does what?
    Who is in charge of implementing the trucks in the slow lane policy?

    • I don’t know about your slow lane policy, but putting agriculture at 22 and conservation off the list altogether is not a good look

      • Neither is Environment and Climate Change at number 17.

        It certainly leaves us in no doubt the importance to the Labour Party of anything happening outside city limits.

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