Latest Roy Morgan and the Taxpayer Union polls (taken before Jacinda stood down so are currently meaningless) show how effective the ZB Troll hate farm has been in driving post Covid animosity and a relentless tsunami of hate at Jacinda.
Coupled with Labour’s lack of transformation, inability to articulate what coGovernance is, our woke activist cliques superpower to alienate voters with their cancel culture bullshit and a down turning economy, and the tide is going out on the political Left.
This is a tragedy because the romper stomper hard right Government of ACT/National will usher in conflict culture destabilisation policies which will lead to violence, civil disobedience and what could be a pitched battle on Parliament’s Lawns.
Don’t believe me?
Claim that’s hyperbole?
Let me ask you to consider the following.
David Seymour gets a double digit result for ACT forcing National to cut a deal with them for Government. David is far more shrewder and smarter than Luxon and will get everything he wants as policy, including the immediate sacking and cancellation of the Ministry of Māori Development alongside rewriting the Treaty of Waitangi (with zero input from Māori).
If you for one fucking second think Māori and their Pakeha allies will allow a far right cracker party like ACT to erase Māori political voice inside the State, WHILE single handedly rewriting the Treaty of Waitangi, then you don’t understand NZ politics and you should shut the fuck up!
I’ll tell you what happens when ACT announce they are dumping the Ministry of Māori Development and rewriting the Treaty after they gain power, the reaction will see an eruption of incandescent fury amongst Māori and their many allies that will immediately see the largest protests in this country with an enormous and angry Hikoi called to descend upon Wellington, and this time you won’t have thousands of angry antivaxx protestors on Parliament’s Lawns, you will see 250 000 enraged protesters descending upon Parliament’s lawns, and what do you think a terrified Christopher Luxon, totally out of his depth, will do?
He’ll panic and send in the military which will trigger unimaginable chaos.
Māori will not allow their gains to be erased by a cracker Party like ACT and all of you who don’t seem to understand this shouldn’t be commentating because you clearly don’t know anything.
My guess is that the vast amount of people who voted Labour in 2020 but have switched their vote in protest to the Right have no comprehension whatsoever of what ACT are prepared to do in power so won’t see any of the looming backlash at all.
In short, the extreme nature of an ACT/National Government could lead to civil conflict.
One top of that, their abusive social policy will push hundreds of thousands into more desperation and crime.
Under ACT/National all we will see are bigger prisons, mass immigration, a new property bubble, never ending rent rises, armed Police, removal of any environmental protections and a State prepared to use any force necessary to ram through their conflict policies.
With a hard right Government looming in front of us, the demand for the Left to actually co-operate to prevent that is essential.
In 2017 I helped then Chief of Staff Matt McCarten put together the Labour election strategy.
It was simple, use MMP to cut National’s support Parties so NZ First would choose Labour.
We did that by standing a strong public service candidate like Greg O’Connor in Ohariu against Peter Dunne to knock him out of the race and by bringing Willie Jackson and urban Māori away from the Māori Party.
That cut National’s support Parties and made it impossible for National to gain a majority.
With the 2023 election now being so close, Labour must again look to using MMP dynamics strategically and tactically to ensure they can win while promising a 100 day plan once elected to pass a range of policy focused on cost of living issues.
To that end, Chippy should consider using the same tactic that National and ACT do in Epsom and have electorate coffee dates to let Labour voters know who to electorate vote to maximise the MMP dynamics for a win in 2023.
Central Auckland – Chippy should have a coffee with Chloe to ensure she retains Auckland Central, the Greens are wobbly in the Polls and always over poll while their voters stay home and rarely turn out. I also think the international vote that always heavily favours Green/Labour won’t save them next year with so many expats furious they were locked out over Covid.
Waiariki – If the Māori Party gain more electorate seats than party vote, they generate an MMP overhang that makes it far more difficult for the Right to win a Parliamentary majority. Retaining Waiariki and picking up two more electorate seats would be essential for this.
Tāmaki Makaurau – Peeni Henry has already intimated he would prefer to be on the list than run in this electorate, the Maori Party candidate would clean up if Chippy had a coffee with her.
Te Tai Hauāuru – It is tradition for the Speaker to step down from an electorate and be on the list only, Adrian Rurawhe will do that, and a coffee between Chippy and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer would win it for her, which if taken alongside Wairiki and Tāmaki Makaurau would give the Māori Party 3 electorate seats and they are likely to win sub 3% Party vote thus creating an overhang.
Ilam – This is where it gets interesting. Gerry Brownlee has stepped down from the electorate (he is fancying his chances as Speaker in the next Parliament) so if Chippy had a coffee with Raf Manji from TOP and directed Labour voters to electorate vote him and he wins, he would also bring in MPs using the coat tail dynamic meaning TOP wouldn’t have to get over the 5% threshold.
At this stage a Labour/Green/Māori Party (with the possibility of TOP) Government is the only chance for the political progress on the big economic issues we need.
A National/ACT Government would be the most right wing since Roger Douglas while NZ First’s inclusion would just be another 3 years of hand breaks for Labour.
It’s time to use MMP strategically using the very tactics National and ACT have used for decades in Epsom while focusing on real issues for working people.
The woke middle class activist base have screamed social justice for 3 years and cancelled anyone who disagrees.
This mindset doesn’t win elections.
Pure temple dogma over Broadchurch politics can’t win elections.
Poor people are not at home discussing who to cancel for misusing a pronoun, they are arguing over hot to pay the bills.
Chippy’s move towards economic justice over social justice signals that Chippy understands how damaging the Woke have become to the movement, know he needs to play a far more strategic MMP election campaign.
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I am in the Ilam electorate and have never heard of TOP promoting themselves . Labour have done nothing of note so why would we want them or their mates back in power. National have a good candidate and he will do well in this blue seat I think
Notice how the path to victory gets more and more complicated and unlikely as we get closer to the election.
TOP won’t win in Ilam. CovidCult made all the white wealthy housewives vote for Jacinda in a one off. They are not going to vote for Indian male espousing socialist ideas just when the cost of living made their 2 week trip to Fiji shortened to 5 days.
This will flop back to National come later this year much like places such as Hamilton East/West, Upper Harbour, Northcote, Northland, TukiTuki and Whangarei. The inner West – Te Atatu, Mt Albert and Mt Roskill could also fall in a landslide.
In fact outside of South Auckland, Wokeington, East Chch and Dunedin I can’t see labour retaining a seat.
Of more interest will be the reaction of Labour’s Maori caucus when the Maori Party hits 5-6%.
6 months ago you proclaimed that TPM would be lucky to hold their seats, why do you now think that they will get 5 to 6 percent of the vote?
I don’t think ‘Chippie’ can publicly endorse Maori Party candidates without it sinking him.
If he doesn’t reverse the water system reforms, he loses.
If he starts saying he wants a coalition with the Maori Party, that would mean caving to tribal ownership of water — and he still loses.
His only hope is to make Labour seem totally different from before, with a totally different policy platform. He could then try and say: “All those failures on the water system, housing, racial separatism, the tramways, broadcasting… that’s all the old boss’ fault!”
The votes Labour have shed are the Womens Weekly readers and the ‘Branch Covidians’.
They’re not coming back.
You can take 2 off the right and give 2 to the left with a poll run be the 2 hard right wing bloggers. Not a reliable poll and manipulated.
Ilam is literally a street away from my house.
There’s no chance anyone but national wins that snobby af electorate of old money millionaires, 2020 was a fluke.
Sure try a seat deal but a seat deal for top would be Pete Dunnes old electorate or wellington central, grant can say he’s too busy handling the economy to be an electorate mp and get James Shaw to stand list only.
As for the Maori electorates, labour shouldn’t stand in any of them, say the Maori electorates should be for kp Maori party’s, why? If Maori party gets 7 seats on 2% party vote they’ll cause a 4 seat over hang making it impossible for anyone to govern without Maori party and if they go with national they keep act out of cabinet or they go with labour.
The greens should straight up make Chloe sole leader, labour should not run in Auckland central (but they will cos labour are stupid)
The left should totally game the mmp system but arrogance won’t let them.
Bang on Bomber. this so called Liberal right, is nothing short of capitalism at its extreme liberalization,that will better the few and those would be, if could be, eigits, who rabid to the blinkered wash, in most, shall not prosper.
As for the Treaty, and those ignorant enough not to recognize, it as the grail, a founding Poutokomanama, of this our Nation Aotearoa/New Zealand.
Willie,get better.
The most salient point to come out of Bomber’s Machiavellian master plan, and all the comments it has attracted, is that our system of so-called “Democratic Capitalism” serves nobody but the 10%, as it has always done, and so needs to be replaced with a system that produces results that serve the masses. But that’s not going to happen, and so we’ll blunder on.
What system is that bro?
Let me think of an example Anaru – maybe one which in the last thirty years, has brought more people out of poverty than ever before witnessed in the history of the world, would be a good place to start, And of course it would help, so as not to be too scary for us to consider, if it employed Capitalism, but only a style of it that avoids the repetitive failings of the genre we’re wedded to. Oh, and it would also be nice if it didn’t have a history of promoting perpetual war in pursuit of pillage to prop itself up, but instead offered poorer countries development aid without strings. Yes, a country that fitted that description would certainly be worth looking at wouldn’t it
A lot of talk out there celebrating like National and Act have won already, when in reality these people are unemployed politicians drawing down the country’s biggest benefits (Seymour himself is a long term beneficiary and it will take multiple wraparound services to get him back into meaningful employment). No what we have here is the right’s fight for their survival. If they lose this election then not only are Luxon and ACT gone, but it will mean the disintegration of rightwing politics itself. That would be the sight to behold, not a Labour defeat. We got a glimpse of the purge when National lost six years ago, but a loss this time is existential for the nats. People have had a gutsful of the fear race baiting, conservative quackery, and the economic self mutilation the right want to vomit into existence. I believe the people who turned to the Labour left in the last couple elections still hold the cherished values of community and will do what is right for the country. Vote left and you at least get the hope for a better future, in reality it is the only choice, with the added bonus of seeing the embarrassment on the faces of Luxon and Seymour on election night as their political careers and party’s go up in flames.
At least Labour MP’s don’t need to worry about their careers going up in flames as their cushy, high paid jobs disappear. As their ship finally sinks into the depths, while they fritter away their final hours rearranging the deckchairs, the icy waters closing over their heads will extinguish any flames there might be.
Labour needs to make a real positive difference for the majority NOW, if they want any hope.
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