There are just 3 words that Jacinda must endlessly repeat until October 17th.
Party.
Vote.
Labour.
Party. Vote. Labour.
PartyVoteLabour.
My guess is that a large chunk of the New Zealand electorate don’t understand the MMP process and don’t understand how important the Party vote is.
To ram this home, Jacinda must be driving home ‘Party Vote Labour’ every time she speaks.
I think the ‘two ticks’ campaign is misunderstood by voters and is more a sop to the candidate running than a view towards outright victory.
PartyVoteLabour does crucify the Greens & NZ First, but they are drowning as it is. Chloe winning in Auckland Central is the Greens best chance of political representation at this stage.
National are now throwing up ill thought out policy like their ridiculous pre-testing regime at the drop of a hat and as we get closer to the election, Judith will get increasingly desperate.
Ensuring National gets no where near power requires giving Jacinda a majority mandate to embark upon transformative change and the only way to make sure that happens is to snooker Labour into a majority so they can’t use Winston as an excuse.
#PartyVoteLabour
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Got it thanks Martyn loud and clear.
Have been saying for months here–“Jacinda PM” does not appear on the ballot paper, unless you happen to live in Mt Albert Electorate–so getting that big tick in the box next to “Labour” for the MMP Party Vote is indeed THE thing.
Can long time tory codgers and young thrusters (in their minds) bring themselves to do this? The few regular polls operating say yes, so far, that some of them, more than enough of them even with Labour hovering around 50% support will cast that vote.
Mrs Collins has not come up with anything yet to tempt semi rational minds that have been paying full attention to the Covid scene to vote National. But that is the risk the PM took with kicking the Election out 4 weeks–the virus might explode or Nats Dirty Tricks Dept turn up something significant. Let us hope not!
A sad commentary on the comprehension skills of so many of the public, but I fear you are quite right. To keep Jacinda, Party vote Labour (or Green).
You all live in an echo chamber – the election will be closer than you think. Labour standing on a no policy platform will be there undoing.
Yep 100%
I think you are throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Party vote Green!
I have been saying for a very long time that National is a loot-and-pollute and transfer-wealth-from-the-poor-to-the-rich party, that the Greens are worse-than-hopeless and actually promote anti-environmental policies, that Winnie is as slippery as an eel and cannot be trusted, and that ACT is akin to National, but worse.
So that leaves Labour (which is full of lazy, cowardly, untrustworthy MPs, and still has not apologised for Rogernomics and everything that followed) as the best of a very bad lot.
With maybe three or four MPs/ministers who have any worthwhile knowledge and credibility (versus none in the other parties, bar one or two exceptions) and with some organisational skills, Labour really is the only choice for those who can be bothered to vote. Not that I expect a returned-to-power Adern government to deal with anything that matters in the long term (or even the short term, now that dysfunctional systems have reached the moribund stage).
I ill be truly staggered if the global financial-economic system is still functioning at the end of this year, with each crisis that gets papered-over bringing collapse nearer.
Yesterday I suggested readers note something that really matters, and this morning read an article that highlights the predicament we face as a consequence of a succession of very bad choices made over many decades, both locally and globally.
Although very much a factor that will determine the future of everyone, I’m sure many in this crazy society will find discussion about reality quite uninteresting. Some will find it too frightening to even look at, despite ‘If there be a path to a better future it begins with a full look at the worst’.
The fact is, the environmental meltdown (which many refuse to acknowledge) will disrupt BAU and kill far more people than Covid-19. But not just yet.
‘The Greenland ice sheet lost a record amount of ice in 2019, equivalent to a million tonnes per minute across the year, satellite data shows.
The climate crisis is heating the Arctic at double the rate in lower latitudes, and the ice cap is the biggest single contributor to sea level rise, which already imperils coasts around the world. The ice sheet shrank by 532bn tonnes last year as its surface melted and glaciers fell into the ocean and would have filled seven Olympic-sized swimming pools per second.’
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/aug/20/greenland-ice-sheet-lost-a-record-1m-tonnes-of-ice-per-minute-in-2019
Undoubtedly, the rate of meltdown for 2020 will be higher than for 2019, despite the reduction in global economic activity, because loss of ice leads to faster loss of ice when the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is increasing (as it is).
The unprecedented [in the history of homo sapiens] environmental meltdown will probably get scant attention by whoever leads the next government, as the accelerating economic-financial-social meltdown will be foremost on people’s minds.
Five words to think about after ‘Party Vote Labour’.
Massive sea level rise coming. ( Around 7 metres when all of the Greenland ice melts; around 25 metres when the Earth reaches thermal equilibrium commensurate with 500 ppm atmospheric CO2.)
A few more words to think about.
Industrial civilisation and a sustainable future are mutually exclusive concepts. You can have one or the other but not both.
I wonder when Jacinda will wake up to that fact.
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+100…Interesting comments as always….and agree we must all start thinking about sustainability/survivablity at the back yard level as well as the national level
….Growth Economics is out and Sustainability/Survival Economics is in….this is why the Greens proposed land tax is a no no…it will force farmers who live economically and grow food to sell up or subdivide for housing
Anything is better than Nactional….Will still probably vote Labour and NZF
Jacinda is as convenient with the truth as John Key was.
Party Vote Poor.
Leave politics to politicians. Anyone who looks above their mortgage knows NZ and Democracy’s heart lies in the neediest. And we haven’t attended to those Brown people for 36 years. If that neglect had happened in Day One of 1984 we would have torn the rulers to pieces.
I say this after watching ‘Parasite ‘, reading to almost the bottom comments on ‘The Hill’ ‘s latest vlogs about the hopelessness of the American Plutocracy on 2 sleepless nights and Bill Burr’s comments about Hillary Clinton on Conan O’Brien 2 years ago.
Still leaden. Particularly about Jacinda and ‘Poverty’. In our own country!
We, the Left, need to overthrow that bullshit now as the first imperative before the election. Or Bid-on it.
In what Democracy do the neediest wait for 36 years? Just, basically, because they are brown, strange, not us.
Cunning plans describes the plutocratic Dem Party in America, and, unnecessarily, far, far too much, JACINDA.
Now then, now then (in James Herriot Yorkshirese), if no one roars for the people the trash conspiracy theories will grow and grow til they strangle life like Oz and America. Labour? Greens? Biden?!
And my generation, of those who grew to adulthood under the late Welfare State I’m so proud of those who remember. We could re-create our country. But after us …
My crazy, mad, furious great grandfather is almost dead enough to ensue he doesn’t attack 84ists.
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