After the last election with Labour decimated at the polls, I joked in anticipation of Labour lurching to the Right that Stuart Nash should do the following to win the leadership…
1 – Start referring to himself immediately as ‘The Nashy’
2 – Speargun a large fish over Summer, preferably an endangered Tuna so that he can start having a fight with the Greens. Hunting something with a social media photo of him standing over whatever he has killed would also suffice.
3 – Kick a ball around with some All Blacks.
4 – Pick more fights with the Greens over climate change and oil drilling.
5 – Dump all that complicated girl stuff like gender equality, rape culture, maternity leave, and social justice as that complicated girl stuff makes the blokes down at the sports bar choke on their mince pies.
…while I certainly think Nash has an important role in providing Labour with the symbolism of reaching out to Provincial NZ, letting him off the leash at the oil exploration industry conference at Sky City to cheerlead their drilling agenda while bagging activists is a sure sign that with Winston’s win up North, Labour is redesigning itself as Centre with a big C and left with a tiny, tiny l.
While the Arctic is melting and Antarctica is frying Labour seem set to pay as much lip service to climate change as National. I have little doubt that Labour could probably win 2017 in a minority Government with NZ First, I just don’t think it will do a damned thing for the poorest and most vulnerable in society, and that includes our environment.
Yes we need to have the Greens step up to the “action” level of Green Peace.
Actions speak louder than words, as National found out during the Northland Bi-election as they scoffed at Winston’s disappearing act Winston was out there working the electorate while Key and his entourage were diddling instead.
Only real action folks will change things, like hikoi’s we have witnessed during the 1990’s land dispute so it’ s actions that are the way forward people nowadays Martyn as it always was.
I don’t see any strong leaders amongst the current crop of MP’s in parliament to come down from the bee hive and lead the people to march on any issue, as they should. Time wrarp indeed, my father was in the 1951 wharf strike so we come from that pedigree but we all now have been put to sleep by politicians inaction.
Time to get radical.
Lets face it Little Labour is not up to the job of confronting the real issues of climate change and the squandering of the environment…let alone foreign interest corporate Capitalist spying on New Zealanders
The NZ Labour Party is a dinosaur…NZF is better….and the Greens and Mana/Int are best of all… at facing up to the real issues confronting New Zealand and our Pacific neighbours
Yes, Metiria needs to lead a new hikoi from her home to parliament. That’ll show John Key.
Indeed, all we seem to get from Labour now is “jobs, jobs, we need more jobs”, and little else. There is talk about the neglect of the regions, a call to the government to reduce ACC levies and the still occasional criticism of National’s housing policy, but little else.
Labour has become a “Little” Party now, where little in real goals, policy and ambition is mentioned, where some aspirational talk may occur here and there, but where they have not worked out their future policies at all. It is neither here nor there, and still now, voters struggle to find out, what Labour actually stands for, and will stand for in future.
Stuart Nash holds a speech in front of the petroleum lobby, telling them to do more to “sell” their “goodies” like jobs, employment and development, and others still go on about the RMA not needing to be changed much. There is NOT MUCH talk about people at the bottom now, NO talk about injustice for beneficiaries, such as those now facing even greater hurdles to present their case to so-called ‘Medical Appeal Boards’ that MSD themselves set up and run.
What f***ing “justice” is that, you may as well have the Police appoint the jury to hear a criminal trial, for which they laid the charges against someone, that is what the Medical Appeals Board administered by WINZ for beneficiaries with health issues and disability looks like.
In secret they made it even more difficult now for appellants to get justice, justice is nowhere to be found, to be honest, and nobody notices, certainly no bloody media jerks bother researching and reporting on this, same as what else goes on at the “bottom of the heap”.
http://accforum.org/forums/index.php?/topic/17116-the-medical-appeal-board-how-msd-and-winz-have-secretely-changed-the-process/
https://nzsocialjusticeblog2013.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/the-m-a-b-hearing-process-how-msd-secretly-changed-it-to-further-disadvantage-clients-oficial-post-18-03-15.pdf
No wonder the Northland election went as it did, and more of that will happen, the “left” better rethink strategy and consider a totally new party, as Labour does NOT have it anymore. We need more than empty words from Labour, we need decisiveness, policy and honesty, and a clear direction. Where is it?
When is the last time a sitting MP got constantly out there encouraging the public to get out and protest in mass for a sustained period or call for and lead a march to parliament?
I cant recall anyone, to march to Wellington and picket the Parliament.
Miserable record nowadays.
CLEANGREEN;
“I don’t see any strong leaders in the house”- paraphrase.
Winnie’s your man.
Please read my reply to you in Martyns last post,
‘National and the Greens worst nightmare…….march 31.
Let us know what you think.
Cheers.
Winnies the only real leader we have by far.
Yes you are right Ian.
Winnie like us is a senior aged Kiwi’s have seen the rot this corrupt toxic Key Government have done in just six short years.
Winnie instinctively knows that we have to now fight back and banish these terrorists from our NZ first, – before we can move back to a fair, kinder, caring society again.
We should never be in this space where National has cultured a divisive society of greed and have’s and have not’s.
Harawira was the first sitting MP to be arrested for a protest action in a long time (during the Glen Eden eviction protests). Perhaps coincidentally, the voices of the establishment parties were all joined together at the 2014 general election to annihilate this challenger of the privileged.
The 2004 Hikoi to protest the; Foreshore and Seabed bill, is the last time I can an MP (Turia) playing a leading role in a march on Wellington. Of course that ended up with the sell-out that was the; Marine and Coastal Areas act.
They all play lip service to climate change.
I know I sound like a cracked record, and I’m sorry for that.
But …..
Kiwi Saver and deep sea oil exploration are the same thing.
Kiwi Saver and munitions manufacture are the same thing.
Kiwi Saver and propping up this economy are the same thing.
Green growth is still growth, same with ‘smart’ growth.
Lets pretend it isn’t way to late now, and we have say 20 years to turn this Juggernaut abound. First there would have to be something like 80% unemployment and zero planes, and a drive to bring the population down to at the most 1 billion people.
Sorry can’t keep the ‘what if’ game up, the truth is our ’20 years’ ran out when we hit about 280 – 300 ppm CO2 (
We have employed ourselves to extinction.
I haven’t a clue? They are saying the Arctic could be ice free for a few weeks this summer, and we have had over 20 methane ‘volcanoes’ erupting in the ESAS already, so I’m thinking if the lack of ice is an indicator of the over all temperature of the Arctic, then we should see a hell of a lot more methane being released later this year? It spiked for one day at 2.6 ppm in January somewhere ??? and they said January was the quite time of year.
We should be able to start counting down the years once the ice goes, like …. 2 – 1- 0
My personal view is Labour is trying to play catch up with those Neo Lib scum bags – these bastards are happy to sell their sole just to get a piece of the action. As for Nasho, I thought he was ok but after his Big Oil stunt he is showing his true colours (light blue).
Go the Greens, don’t worry about dulling down – stick to your guns a lot of people vote Green because Labour sold out and National are con men (and woman). As for ‘bob each way Winston’ – just a tool to stick it to National and remind Little Jonny Key to pull his head in.
So lets protest and support the party that supports the people – Go Greens…………!!!!
Hot News just in Nasho ……….
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11426911
(all about another offshore oil explosion in US)
Yeah Big Oil – Great Idea………….. Prick
Labour are dead. They just don’t know it yet.
Oh no not another Richard Pebble and Roger Douglas
the statements made by Nash are not going down at all well with us, if that is what we wanted we would have voted Simon Bridges
Little for Labour might have done Winston a favour at the Northland Bye-election but he didn’t do his own party any. His attitude was that an excellent candidate Willow Jean Prime wasn’t worth voting for. The last thing Labour needs is a leader whose loyalty to his own candidates is suspect as it was in this instance. Whose to say that Labour supporters who voted for Winston will return to Labour at the next election? For that matter how can any Labour member or bona-fide supporter trust a party whose leaders loyalty is suspect?
To be honest, I don’t think our MP’s do NZ justice – I think they lack strength of character and integrity, and I agree with Cleangreen – there’s no-one there really putting NZ first and representing what New Zealanders want. Where are our representatives guys, because most of them look like they’re either too afraid to say what they think or feel about the bs that we’re having to tolerate from John Key, or are just too self-indulgent to care about what’s going on …
How many of our MP’s really have any idea about corruption issues/power plays going on in the world today, and how they might affect the nation and our people? John Key could not stand Hone Harawira because he has backbone and purpose – he was one of the few MP’s prepared to stand for something meaningful without selling himself out. This is what New Zealand needs people – representatives who give a shit and aren’t afraid to fight for what we need.
Our world is fast becoming a cynical, discordant, corrupt and dangerous place for Humanity people, and NZ needs a new calibre of politicians … we need street-smart, honest individuals – intuitives with strength of personal character and identity, mana, integrity and a sense of humour. We need people who are fierce – tigers that are networked, informed and equipped to deal with Global Corporate greed, deceivers and manipulators – people who don’t take themselves too seriously and have zero tolerance for aggressors/bullies, manipulators, corruption and BS …
We should expect the best of NZ to represent NZ – aim high!
Here Here, what ever happened to “Lead by example”
We all remember the exceptional world leaders that carved out our freedoms for god’s sake.
All we seem to have now are cardboard caricatures of themselves and show no passion or resolve to rise above the burble to hit the spot where you stir on your seat.
Even Robert Muldoon did this even though some hated it at least it stirs the blood but this lot is like looking at SS Queen Mary heading at slow speed for the beach.
Get some brimstone and fire Politicians please as Winston seems to get now and then.
The “Gotta” time has returned but no substantive issues to bear fruit.
It seems that the only way to get any MSM cover if you are in opposition is to say some unpopular statement while at a venue be it a oil conference or any other of the many all these politicians attend.
Is it the “Gotta” MSM syndrome still swirling around in the wake of the Dirty politics saga we witnessed last year?
Is this the only “constructive” investigative journalistic talents these remnants within MSM have now?
Shouldn’t they be looking into how Key has hidden the TPPA,South Korea deal and the GCSB spying on neighbours at least, never mind the Ede GCSB debarkles?
Support a more left wing party then. Oh wait. You tried that at the last election and it didn’t work out terribly well for you.
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