GUEST BLOG: Andrew Little – WATCH ME AND JACINDA EXPLAIN THE POLICY
With Labour, 70% of New Zealand families will be better off than with the package National announced in their election year Budget.
With Labour, 70% of New Zealand families will be better off than with the package National announced in their election year Budget.
HOW SERIOUSLY should New Zealanders take the words of Green MP Barry Coates? In a recent post to The Daily Blog he said: “The memorandum of understanding with Labour is the foundation for building the next government. However, if we were not part of the coalition, we would not accept a Labour-New Zealand First government and certainly not a National-New Zealand First government. Neither will be acceptable to the Greens.”
National’s tax cuts do nothing to address the failing mental health service, nothing to address the failing public health system, nothing to address the housing crisis or address the chronic underfunding in education; Labour’s Families Package on the other hand provides some real solutions and answers to the major issues in our communities
Here is Paddy Gower being Paddy Gower…
Thinking more about the Greens new strategy of declaring war on NZ First, and it seems more and more like a terrible strategic blunder.
Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.
You could put Toni Street in front of the desk, alongside the desk or even under the bloody desk and I still wouldn’t watch Seven Sharp!
The interesting point is that NZ First and Greens are now on par with each other but the most fascinating insight from the poll is how huge the undecideds are – 19% – that’s almost 1 in 5 NZers who have no idea who they are going to vote for and that means the whole election is teetering on winning over those who are still waiting to make a call.
So based on next to no information whatsoever, MBIE have decided that there is no issue with China dumping cheap and dangerously substandard steel on the NZ market which means we won’t anger China who have their hand around our throat economically because they take mountains of of our milk powder.
Our most vulnerable children are being failed by poor policies on housing and the evidence that a much more elaborate…