News that the Greens and Labour will agree to only stand one candidate in the Mt Roskill by-election shows the strength and determination of the new MoU to defeat National.
If this level of maturity can be established in other electorates, 2017 is looking very competitive.
News that Labour will open a new Auckland HQ to be headed by some of Labour’s best strategists shows how serious Labour are going to be to win Auckland.
If you can’t win Auckland, you can’t win 2017 and the reality for all those who oppose this Government is that the back bone of any alternative Government has to be Labour, so this HQ could be a real centre for momentum from an entire cross section of the community.
The simple fact is that the 2017 election campaign has just begun.
“The Greens and Labour will agree to only stand one candidate in the Mt Roskill by-election” – Great news!
It seems there is some truth in a likely agreement between Greens and Labour, and it is necessary, for sure:
http://www.newshub.co.nz/politics/labour-greens-eye-by-election-deal-2016082921
“Green Party co-Leader Metiria Turei says she’s open to the idea.
“The point of the MOU we have with Labour is to form the space to have these kinds of conversations about the best electoral success for both Labour and the Greens,” she says.
“We do very well in that electorate when we stand for the party vote and we have a really strong team in Mt Roskill… so we know that we are strong there.
“Whether that makes a difference for their campaign, I couldn’t tell you.””
What must be considered is that the Mt Roskill electorate has changed in composition, many new migrants, some with rather conservative social and other values, have settled there. It is no longer just the so-called Auckland “bible belt”, it is multicultural and home to many people from Indian, Chinese, other Asian, European and Pacific backgrounds.
Also was the border extended towards the east some years ago, including more affluent parts of Auckland near Epsom, Royal Oak and North West Onehunga.
The Nats candidate has some following there, and with a new party standing also, with a strong migrant focus, and run by Indians, there could be a very close race.
http://www.newshub.co.nz/politics/nzs-first-political-party-dedicated-to-immigrants-2016082919
Has this intended candidate been consulted?
https://www.facebook.com/greensmtroskill/
Why was that lying nasty TV 3 reporter calling it a dirty deal? the MoU makes it anything but, and puts the cooperation between the parties above that.
TRUE THAT WORDS.
NAT’S DO THIS WITH A CUP OF TEA!!!!!!
DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THAT?
I do !!!
I think it is overdue that the Left Block of NZ politics turn its hand to what a successful ACT party has done with successive “cup of tea arrangements”. It is the honorable way to do coalitions, open and honest. ACT is an honorable, open and honest party.
ACT don’t mind this sort of challenge, even though it will be too little too late. If this had been done at the last election, ACT may not have had as many coalition partners if the left had gotten its ACT together (did you notice the segway/Dad joke?).
So, as an honorable party, ACT says, bring it on, we will win anyway and then the bottom line will be the full introduction of ACT’s policies, and as avid readers of my contributions here, you know they will be about tax, tax and tax, for a better, fairer New Zealand.
If cup of tea arrangements of the Act Party style are “open and honest”, why did John Key then pursue Ambrose, the journalist, over his accidental recording of his conversation with Mr Banks?
I thought you believed in “nothing to hide”, or has that now been put to rest, that slogan?
Good point Mike.
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