Bread and Butter Politics does two things, it puts delivery over ideology and because most middle class woke activists are gluten free vegans, they run a mile from Bread and Butter.
So Labour can redesign policy from ideology to delivery while freaking the woke to run away and stop alienating voters.
It’s a win win.
Chippy has thrown all the woke policy on a bonfire and is moving Labour from the cancel culture minefield of social justice towards the solidarity building economic justice.
Lifting minimum wage – This is economic justice.
Dumping TVNZ/RNZ merger – the delivery is more NZ on Air funding for content, the ideology was the merger itself, so the merger gets dumped.
PSA/CTU Gold plated Holiday tax – This was always a bullshit sop to the PSA to give their bureaucrats a 6 month taxpayer holiday. It was never going to fly.
Biofuels mandate – At a time of crippling cost of living crisis, anything increasing fuel costs gets dumped.
Hate Speech – this was always a culture war the Left could never win.
3 waters – will finally be focused on drains rather than an existential race war.
The woke be cray, but their alienating bullshit has made these course corrections necessary.
We must move towards Left Universalism if we have a hope of stopping ACT and National.
Now Chippy has burnt off all the unpopular woke policy, he has to actually deliver on free public transport, free dental, free breakfasts and lunches in schools and a more tax from the rich.
Increasingly having independent opinion in a mainstream media environment which mostly echo one another has become more important than ever, so if you value having an independent voice – please donate here.
If you can’t contribute but want to help, please always feel free to share our blogs on social media
‘Bread and Butter’ social democratic politics is the opposite of ‘non-ideological’ — if you remove the social democratic ideology, all that remains is a capitulation to neoliberalism!
The problem is that the Labour Party ceased to be social democrats a long time ago, and are now simply new social liberals (of the Third Way type). The rank-and-file membership has largely walked out of the party, and like the other major parties, it is controlled by corporate political donors.
Probably the only pro-worker thing that might come of ‘Ultra-Blairism’ is dumping the mining ban, and perhaps exempting agriculture from new regulations and taxes.
The Culture War nonsense is ultimately a distraction. Economic policy is what matters, and if this moves to the right, workers lose.
And so the fact that NZ has, at last, moved to reinstitute sane, and logical government.. and the “intelligentsia”, or what passes for it here disappears up itself arguing over the nature of “ideology”..
I’ll leave you guys to argue how many camels can pass through the eye of a needle, and get on with, like the rest of us in reality land, our small comfort in finally seeing a break in the clouds..
LINO is just another vain glorious organisation using tax redistribution to their brand of middle-class to get re-elected, just like the other vain glorious organisation before them and the one to come after.
Fucking statists and lackeys and hangers-on – the roof, the roof, the roof is on fire.
Hate speech goes out the window and now David Seymour is trying to cancel people’s statements. The irony.
What statements is Seymour trying to cancel.
He thinks a public servant should go because he is not doing his job
Really? He was going after a public servant for comments that were made that he didn’t agree with
Wheel…yep.
“Woke” to me has always been a retread of “PC”–a fatuous position for any leftist to engage in. There is some good stuff in the modern agenda, but a more class left approach can always be applied. And full credit to Martyn for coming up with “class left”, I use it regularly.
The reality is NZ Labour Caucus is mainly neo Blairist. So it is good to see Mr Chipkins take a more working class position than I ever thought him capable of. Employers big and small just hate that Minimum Wage floor don’t they! Like, ACT will freeze it for three years according to their shitslide of an online presence–but woe betide Natzo/ACT if they ever tryed to reduce the minimum. And that is why working class benefits are where Labour/Green/TPM should be for.
None bad has been cancelled. Only the ideas that big business didn’t want, i.e. public broadcasting. Hate speach and a rebranded 3 waters will be back if they win the election. The latter is just back door privatisation.
What about extending the Winter Energy payment forever? If there are billions to spend on expired inoculations, two tier welfare and weapons to Nazis then surely we can give to the poor Chipkin.
Well, Chippy seems to be moving in the right direction.. for now – got to give him that.
Needs a lot more petrol aka demolition on the 3 / 5 Waters and the other woke brainfarts to get credibility …
Apropos, this interesting rather radical commentary about a Universal Basic Income:
https://www.odt.co.nz/opinion/hoping-bold-moves-welfare
The sensible policies that will be rolled out by Labour this year to appeal to voters will shine when compared with the policies of National as they were against the recent benefit rises and for military style camps for unemployment beneficiaries
Maybe he should rescind Jacinda’s plans to lower the speed limit on every highway to 50kph next? Just a thought.
How about 15 kph – get the country moving.
David Seymour puts it best: “ it’s like an arsonist taking credit for trying to put out a fire he lit” or a thief getting credit for “finding” the stolen goods.
Hipkins was one of the most senior Labour MPs who voted for the things he now tries to distance from.
Cynical.
Aramoana?
Just wait until you see how much lives are saved. It will make the $200,000,000 seem so worthwhile. Public safety paramount.
Biofuel mandate scrapped – the oil companies win again.
Does the PM think the environment is going to wait for the economy to improve?
Bring back Jacinda and her Nuclear Free moment.
Comments are closed.