Labour have still not shown the electorate any real policy and simply relying on Chippy beating Luxon in the debates is too much of a gamble.
The good news from the latest TV3 Poll is that Labour can win this if Chippy goes big, look at the preferred PM numbers and trust levels…
…Kiwis trust Chippy, and Chippy must lead.
Right now, all Labour are impotently promising is GST off fresh fruit and vegetables.
That just won’t be enough and seeing as it has already been leaked, art will be met with a shrug by voters.
Instead Labour should utilise this leak and leverage it politically and surprise the Electorate by taking GST off ALL food, this after the disappointment of the Wealth Tax will make voters feel like Labour have actually listened to they pain in the cost of living crisis.
Political cowardice is never rewarded and until Labour makes an actual stand they will continue to slide in the Polls.
Labour either stand for something or they hang for everything.
Labour either shows political courage and takes GST off all food or they hand this election over to the hard Right.
You’ve run out of road Chippy, go bold or go home.
What’s the point of Bread and Butter politics if no one can afford Bread or Butter?
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What is going on inside the Labour Party? Who are the members of each faction of the Parliamentary Party? What factions exist in the Constituency Labour Party branches? How much branch stacking is going on inside those branches? Which trade unions support which faction?
And how many members do they still have? Is this going up or down?
Chippy could surprise the electorate by resigning & handing the job on to Andrew Little. Now that would be a surprise.
That would make Little difference…
Half a policy will do until the Bill cancelling freedom of speech gets through.
Labour are gone and history will not look back on them kindly .Ardern saw the writing on the wall and quit so her CV was not tarnished with a lose .They have just not done enough to earn 3 more years. The 3 habour tunnels will start at the same time as Labour will look like a party worth voting for again.
Dumped wealth tax: Hipkins defends move despite anger from minor parties
Stuff.co.nz, 13 July 2023
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/493652/dumped-wealth-tax-hipkins-defends-move-despite-anger-from-minor-parties
….Hipkins admitted he had shut down plans for a “tax switch” in this year’s Budget, which would have seen a tax-free bracket and a 1.5 percent tax on wealth above $5 million from 2024.
“The Labour Party won’t be supporting a wealth tax.”
Hipkins:
If your not rich; I’ve got it innit for you you.
It’s TOO LATE for LINO to be seen as anything other than a soft right wing party, that is doing its best to SLOW DOWN any FAIR transition back to a ‘middle ground’, let alone a left leaning country.
IF voters vote for this LINO party, they DESERVE the harsh right leaning policies of Govt and ALL the difficulties of living in relative poverty that comes with such Govts.
The MINIMUM a REAL Labour Govt-party should be offering is what The Maori (TPM) are offering and arguably a LOT more to make up for the last 30+ years of cruel Neoliberism.
The people will get what they deserve, most probably because of the propaganda of the so called fourth estate, that keeps them occupied with stuff that wont upset the ‘right wing leaning apple cart’.
Hipkins’ tax pledge could threaten coalition talks – Greens, Te Pāti Māori
Stuff.co.nz, 12 July 2023
The Greens and Te Pāti Māori are warning Labour that ruling out capital gains or wealth taxes could threaten their chances of a coalition deal.
National and ACT also say the promise is premature, and likely to be overridden…..
…..Labour leader Chris Hipkins admitted he had shut down plans for a “tax switch” in this year’s Budget, which would have seen a tax-free bracket and a 1.5 percent tax on wealth above $5 million from 2024.
But he also went a step further, ruling out introducing any wealth tax or capital gains tax “under a government I lead”….
Hipkins;
I would rather keep control of a losing side, than lose control of a winning side.
Labour leader Chris Hipkins admitted he had shut down plans for a “tax switch” in this year’s Budget, which would have seen a tax-free bracket and a 1.5 percent tax on wealth above $5 million from 2024.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/493625/hipkins-tax-pledge-could-threaten-coalition-talks-greens-te-pati-maori
At the end of 2022, Chris Hipkins had an estimated net worth of $5.3 million….
https://www.ghgossip.com/chris-hipkins-net-worth-age-height/
Hipkins;
If you are not rich like me, you can get fucked.
Dropping GST off select items sounds like a nightmare in admin costs and a nightmare to defend.
It’d be easier to just drop GST from 15% back to 10% or preferably take it down to 5% and remind everyone that John Keys tax cuts were paid for by GST increases and so too, will Nat/acts planned cuts.
I’d personally get rid of GST on everything altogether. It’s a consumption tax, how any lefty can defend a consumption tax is beyond me.
How many times must it be pointed out that taking GST off fresh fruit and veges might save the average family $6 a week, and taking it off all food might save a mere $20 a week.
And that’s only ‘might’: it assumes the saving isn’t swallowed up along the producer-retailer food chain; that it actually reaches the consumer.
Better by far to leave the GST alone, and give everyone a $20-a-week UBI to cover it. For many households this could be accomplished simply by raising NZ Super, Working for Families, and other benefits.
There are some who will not take notice of your common sense remakes .Taking gst off certain selected items destroys the simplicity of the system and the cost of compliance. Why they do not see this is a mystery to me . zI would expect this from Greens and TPM as they have no knowledge of business and speak to followers who love to think they speak for the ordinary person but they do not .
Do the math. $100 of groceries divide by 1.15 means you only pay $86.95 a saving of $13.05. A family spends a bare minimum of $300 on food a week. So its a $40 tax cut if gst is removed from all food.
Play the long game Chippy! Sacrifice any personal ambition for the good of the party. You’re young enough Chippy to make a comeback. Just stay off those sausage rolls. With so many challenges in need of immediate intervention, and even bigger challenges on the horizon, any incoming government of a different color won’t last long. Surely. Cutbacks and austerity is not the solution. Starving critical institutions of funding less so. Business as usual cannot be sustained in the current carbon-based economy. Ignoring wealth disparity and more equitable taxation settings will lead to just more issues. A stint on the Opposition benches might offer up the political will.
If he wants to do something big. Take GST off fuel and power. Should be easy to administer as it’s at the pump or down the line. Don’t piss about with piddly little amounts on vegetables. I don’t know what your average Joe spends on fuel and power but I average $70 for fuel and $50 for power per week. I average about $30 per week for vegetables. So would be far better off paying no GST on fuel.
>What’s the point of Bread and Butter politics if no one can afford Bread or Butter?
Take the GST off bread and off butter. Simple!
Probably so named as it has a better ring to it than Crusts and dripping.
Not so simple sorry .It is only the somple in the minds of the those that have never been involved in business like TPM and Green voters.
Sorry, it is simple. If it can be eaten it’s food. If it’s sold in a food shop it’s food. That would be dairies, vege shops, fish shops, butchers, supermarkets, minimarkets, fish & chip shops, fast-food establishments, restaurants and fizzy drink vending machines. Don’t tax food and water.
Russia has been using cluster munitions since the very beginning of their so called, ‘Special Military Operation’ with not a peep out of Gin Hag or any of the other blood thirsty anonymous cheerleaders for Russia’s invasion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_of_cluster_munitions_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine
As of July 1, hundreds of attacks by Russian forces with cluster munitions have already been recorded in the settlements of the Dnipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv, Luhansk, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson and Chernihiv regions.[4][5][6] 215 civilians are known to have been killed in these shellings and 474 injured, many of which may go unreported.[6] Both Russia as well as Ukraine have used cluster munitions during the conflict, however, Russian use has been extensive while Ukrainian use has been more limited.[7]
Neither Russia nor Ukraine are signatories of the of the 2008 convention limiting the use of cluster munitions.[7] The use of such weapons against civilians violates the principles of humanitarian law and therefore constitutes a war crime.[8][4] Reports of Russian attacks have prompted the International Criminal Court to launch an investigation into the commission of war crimes in Ukrainian territory.[9][10]
During the invasion of Ukraine, the Russian army used at least 6 types of cluster munitions: missiles for multiple rocket launchers “Hurricane”, “Smerch”, “Tornado-S”, missile systems “Tochka” and “Iskander-M”, as well as RBC bombs -500 with PTAB-1M submunitions.[6] Smerch missiles were used for 72 submunitions, as well as other charges for 50 submunitions. According to the Russian manufacturer, missiles used in residential areas can contain up to 1.45 kg of explosive and scatter into about 316 fragments.[2][21] The most large-scale Russian attacks with weapons include:
Remains of clusters and other munitions collected by the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in the Kharkiv region, May 10, 2022
Shelling of the Central City Hospital in Vuhledar on February 24, 2022 (Donetsk region). According to the UN Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, the Russian attack killed at least 4 civilians and injured 10, damaged ambulances and destroyed a hospital building.[4] A Human Rights Watch investigation documented the use of cluster munitions as Iskander short-range ballistic missiles, as well as a ballistic missile of the Tochka system with a 9N123 cluster warhead for 50 submunitions.[16][21][14] Human rights activists called the use of shells with a wide radius of destruction in densely populated areas “blatant disregard for the lives of civilians”.[22]
The shelling of the preschool “Sonechko” in the city of Okhtyrka on February 25, 2022 (Sumy region). According to the UN Monitoring Mission and Amnesty International, a public human rights organization, an attack by six 220-mm Uragan rockets with cluster warheads on a building where civilians were hiding killed at least 2 adults and 1 child, 1 other child was injured.[14][4][23]
Shelling of residential areas in Kharkiv on February 25 and 28, 2022. The UN monitoring mission reported that at least 9 civilians were killed and 37 were injured during the first cluster munition rocket attack.[4] Four days after the start of the Russian invasion, Amnesty International documented three more attacks with cluster munitions in the northern part of Kharkiv.[9] ……
All the while, anonymous disgusting pro-war scum like Gin Hag are cheering on this mass murder from the behind their keyboards.
Rat n a Cage. No way Angry Andy is back as leader.
I would rather have boring old David Parker. He is the only one left who is remotely competent and as a added bonus he gets on well with Winston.
“If you can eat it, its food”. No Gst on food!
Why do we pay gst on the water bill? Water is Life. And its taxed!
Be Really Bold.
GST back to 10% would be a better push – cut wasteful spending – yolo
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