The Woke are good at hating Winston, not so good at counting
The Woke be angry at Winston…
…and over at the Millennial Blog that avocados built, Captain Woke of Wellington,
The Woke be angry at Winnie, but the Woke aren’t very good at counting.
NZ First, after the total meltdown of the Greens, was the price of getting rid of National and without NZ First, we were staring down the barrel of a fourth term of those arseholes.
Exactly what are the Woke suggesting? Where exactly are we going to pick up the extra votes to get to the 51% democratic majority? Action Station and Spinoff TV launching their own political party? If it rates as well as their TV show, we would be handing votes back to ACT!
The Woke who spend their energy screaming ‘We’re different and you’re wrong’ aren’t exactly the best recruiters and in fact it could be argued that the Woke are alienating more voters than they are winning over.
Marama’s crusade to reclaim the ‘C’ word had me rolling my eyes so far back into my head I ended up staring at the back arse of my own brain.
Brothers and sisters, we may feel pissed that we aren’t getting some progressive ideas past, but not nearly as pissed as NZ First are at the utter lack of effort to roll back neoliberalism by the Greens and Labour.
Here is fucking Chippy shepherding in the next attack by neoliberalism…
A public business, not a public service
Yet again, the neoliberal wrecking ball is swinging through New Zealand’s public service, fronted, alas, by Chris Hipkins whose laudable attempt (launched last February) to clean up the mess created by the State Sector Act 1988 has been captured by the high-paid top brass of the 1988-model state sector.The result, released as a “consultation document” (available online here), boils down to a recipe for making matters worse.
Stripped of the glossy photos and spin-doctored rhetoric, the big central idea is to mount yet another attack on the venerable model of a stable career public service, organised into departments of state which took ownership of vital areas of policy and service to the public, and reported each year on their stewardship of that role to the people in plain-English narratives.
…as Chris Trotter points out in his brilliant blog today, NZ First will give on progressive issues if they see Labour and the Greens rolling back neoliberalism, and to date the Greens are too market worshipping and Labour too ideologically frightened to engage in that economic debate.
There certainly are communication issues inside Labour and NZ First, and Labour could iron those out if they utilised Willie Jackson more and put him in charge of communicating Labour’s needs directly to Winston and Winston would find a far better ally in getting Labour to walk away from neoliberalism, but we must not allow the Woke’s perfect defeat the good as it is their Pure Temple approach to politics as opposed to Labour’s Broad Church that is eroding the democratic majority vote share, not building it.
Whatever their neolib failings it is still better than the devastating nine years of Nactional Government under Jonkey
However as a former Green I would vote NZF on the 1080 issue only . NZF would ban 1080. 1080 is a neolib disaster . Poisoning our land and invertebrates and birds and people , instead of providing work for our young people trapping possums. Eventually 1080 will destroy our ecotourism industry.
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2018/09/09/banning-1080-is-in-the-same-family-of-conspiracy-as-anti-water-fluoridation-anti-vaxers/
NZF is the only real environmentalist green party supported by the real green New Zealanders on the ground…the outdoors environmentalists, hunters, fishers , farmers with multiple empirical evidence of the poisoning and death of New Zealand.
The Green Party is an effete group of ambitious w..kers
100% correct RB
NZ First are the ‘environmental party’.
Winston advocated during the election to use rail and to use wool carpeting in all Government buildings toi support farmers as they reduce Cows.
Greens have never mentioned increasing wool use????
Wool is the global gold standard for insulation against the “cold damp homes” and Greens only ever encouraged using fibre bat, or polystyrene insulation and these are all made from petroleum products!!!!!!!!!
Green Party; – please learn ‘chemistry’ and ‘chemical composition’ firstly please.
lesser evilism never delivers anything but evil.
I still have to fly to Auckland a few times a year and it sickens me to see so many decent human beings forced to live on the streets; right in front of chinless wankers driving a soon to be obscelent motor vehicle that cost more than a couple of comfortable homes. In my home country.
I know that even my worthless father who considered himself a conservative would baulk at such sights in Aotearoa if he were still alive to witness the inevitable result Holyoakism and Muldoonism.
So many kiwis seem to be totally unaware how low Aotearoa has sunk.
If I mention the awful sight of people on queen st begging, many Aucklanders who I had always considered to be fairly decent humans, immediately retort with some tale about how their friend’s brother-in-law had a sister who met a bloke once and he lived next door to one of these beggars who had a nice house out in Mt Roskill (or somewhere equally apocryphal) and he drove into town at sparrow fart, parked his car in his peronal space, then got down to his begging beat.
So much total nonsense that last time I was there I grabbed one of these fools and made him walk through town at 4.ooam with me. Every doorway, bus shelter niche etc, had some poor bugger huddled up trying to get their 8 hours in.
If anything the numbers of homeless have gotten bigger since the current shower of shitbags won office.
They have no universally formulated and supported strategy to deal with anything.
They may indeed be slightly more well meaning than the natz were but that isn’t exactly a huge achievement, now is it? The thing is though, there is no leadership from cabinet, everyone seems to be heading off in their own direction riding whatever particular hobby-horse suits them.
Like so many ersatz left administrations before them, the only time they ever unite is when it is time to squash any idea that is to the left of them. THEY are the left everyone who is ‘aleftist’ of whatever ilk must support this worthless coalition otherwise they are sellouts, shills or trolls.
So the ratchet of poverty enabled by nastiness, tightens its noose around the neck of every Aotearoa citizen who has rated living in a decent world ahead of scrabbling to grab everything possible for me. me, me.
YUK WTF happened?
the Green MPs were treacherous to their voters and and waka jumpers as a Party by giving their question time to neolib Nactional
…the Greens at the moment are a neoliberal supporting party…if not neoliberals themselves
…and how many of them have actually seen a kea or been a tramper ?
Neoliberalism will not be removed while Labour stays in it’s current form. End of Story
Sometimes I wish Don Brash had made it into power, trashed the country really well and in the process also created an uprising that would have thrown every neoliberal party out of parliament. We’d be well on our way out of the mess by now.
The biggest problem NZ First will face is that it will be them portrayed as running out on the coalition and not Labour.
This nonsense won’t stop until the people get active.
Divide and Conquer has worked for 3000 years why stop now
quasi plans by pseudo leadership just treading water
Funny side fact….
Interesting that the author of that hate article against Winston in the Washington Post Ben Mack turns out to be a Christian anti-communist funded by and connected to Ally Portee who works for the anti-communist Organization of American States (OAS):
https://www.allysonportee.com/new-page-2/
and:
https://twitter.com/benmack_nz/status/1023818118324469761
How the hell did this weird American with a political agenda get such a prominent job in journalism in NZ?
SO weird.
Since the fall of communism and before really the OAS has really been an anti-Russia block funded by the US and run out of Washington.
Mr Peters had his reported Russian connections taken very seriously by the US apparently.
We should be looking sideways at the Washington Post and this strange character Ben Mack who went from journalism student to running a whole lot of concerns including setting up a mouthpiece for Lizzie Marvelly… it’s all looking rather “odd”, people, in retrospect.
NZF only Party that wants 1080 looked at, even Eugene Sage and the Greens are pro 1080 ?
Why look at 1080? Shouldn’t you be looking at what is killing our birdlife and stripping our forests? (Clue, rats, stoats, possums. Just in case you haven’t been paying attention.)
Using the term; “The Woke” once might .. might be ok — but the repeated use of this meaningless, abstract term is disturbing. Grow up and do some real journalism [which I know you can], you’re embarrassing yourself.
The woke left and the bro liberal agenda dovetail nicely. Like Hilary Clinton you can be a feminist even while bombing women and children according the woke left.
The spinoff is a good example of a commercial magazine that pushes a non-threatening (to industry) agenda which also encourages social policing and surveillance under the guise of “safety”.
PwC funds Influencer Alison Mau’s racket. It’s easy to see how some weird confabulation of a person like Ben Mack, who a poster referred to above, could come about, promoting “leftism” while actually being a reactionary ant-communist (read anti-Russia).