A Labour/Green minority Government with Supply and Confidence from the Māori Party is the only game in town if you are a progressive voter this election.
Chippy has ruled out everything worth fighting for, but those are the comments of a Leader with a 2020 MMP majority, he won’t be that after the the 2023 election.
If the outcome is a Labour/Green minority Government with Supply and confidence from the Māori Party, the Greens need to reach out immediately to the Māori Party and negotiate as a united front for a range of bottom line policies that need to be passed within the first 100 days of the new Government.
Free Urban Public Transport in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Dunedin and Tauranga – We need urgent public transport upgrades – making Public transport free in 5 Urban centres is a move that will force those upgrades. If you have to nationalise public transport in those cities, do it!
Labour’s Wealth Tax – Their wealth tax is better constructed than the Greens.
GST off Supermarket food – Just do it.
Legalise Cannabis Market – It would generate $1.1billion in revenue per year while taking power from organised crime while allowing ring-fenced rehabilitation programs for ALL drugs.
Commerce Commission creates 30% new Supermarket player – This should be an Iwi backed new Supermarket chain with a focus on lower costs for shoppers, better conditions for workers and better prices for domestic growers.
Ministry of Green Works – Rebuild our State Ministry of Works overseeing State House builds, roading and new infrastructure.
Māori Party Ghost House Tax, A foreign companies tax, A land banking tax – You actually need to citrate new taxes on the mega wealthy to ensure they pay the tax necessary to build our social and physical infrastructure.
Sugar Tax and Free Dental – Tax Big Sugar while you remove GST, ring fence cash for free dental.
Announce Mass State House Build – Do something meaningful about housing and build 50 000 new State Houses to take the pressure out of the rental market and force scum landlords to compete in a genuinely competitive rental market. Also force the State to implement their own healthy home standards they are demanding of the private Landlord market.
Free Breakfast and Lunch in every school – The best silver bullet for truancy.
Nationalise ECE – Stop tinkering and actually do something meaningful and Nationalise ECE and make it free for children. Give working parents a break and make all after school care free as well.
Extend Maternity Leave – 26 weeks is a joke, let’s work towards making it a full year.
Properly fund Health and Education – We don’t just need more drs and teachers, we need more schools and hospitals.
A line up of policy like this forced onto Labour and passed within 100 days would be the most progressive outcome for the election because the truth is that Labour only do anything meaningful if they have their head smashed into a wall, a gun put to their head while screaming ‘Do it’, before they ever do anything transformative.
These are the policy wins worth fighting for, creating new taxes to tax the rich while spending that increase on direct public services that benefit everyone.
This is the political project of the Left, this is what we need to be fighting for instead of cancelling people for misusing pronouns, mispronouncing Te Reo or not cycling.
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Now he’s getting desperate. Maybe there’s a poll out tonight.
This is a great list, except for taking GST off food. That’s economic folly, when the rational course would be to leave GST alone and give everyone a $20-a-week UBI to cover it. But there’s nowt like folk, and the polls show that the majority, right across the political spectrum, want GST off food. And even if you gave everyone a $20-a-week UBI they’d immediately forget why, and be back demanding GST off food, so in the absence of a political party with spine … go for it.
John Trezise. The thing with an extra $20-a-week or whatever, is that low income parents are just as likely to use it for new shoes or a jacket for cold children, or put it towards the dreadful electricity bills. Those extra dollars do make a difference when buying and catering for families on a tight budget, except that GST should be removed from all foodstuffs, not just from fruit and veges, which looks like more irritating virtue signalling.
Labour is on track for it’s biggest election defeat in a generation and rightly so, despite the nightmare of an ACT National government.
Like the roll call of failures, missed opportunities, dropped balls and divisive woke policy masquerading as progressiveness the next three to nine years will be Labours fault as well.
GST off food does not deliver for the poor. Instead $0-30,000 of income 0%tax and
$30,000-60,000 10%. Real savings for people below average earnings. Balance the loss of tax revenue by big increases in tax on higher incomes
Health and Education- Much of this is reliant on there not being a Phil Twyford, Andrew Little, Michael Wood or Grant Robertson, etc, etc, who won’t throw billions at things only for them to actually get worse! Mental health a great example! Te Whato Ora another.
Or there being obvious conflicting results from their policy that yet again, have not been factored in by these morons ! A prime example, Te Aka Whai Ora also known as The Maori Health Authority. It’s wrong because it’s race based segregation but according to a rather damning report about TAWO, dumped Friday week ago, yep, on a Friday evening, it showed a core objective was hiring people from the former DHB pool that were racially selected as Maori, not because they had required skills, but based on their race, which is contributing to its woes. Say it isn’t so, hired on race, not skills sees problems resulting? Who’d of thought?
Yes, a segregated health system is an obscenity I never thought I would see in this country and racial selection of staff is a logical extension of that obscenity but to show just how fucked up this government is, it brings the people of NZ this micro macro level of dysfunction caused by its racist policies that AREN’T attending to patients health issues, and yet we are supposed to entrust this lot with more time and money? I think not! Ever ever again!
X-ray. It’s called “ positive discrimination “, is counter-productive when it makes appointments based on ethnicity rather than on expertise, and is dangerous when used in the fragile health sector.
Again, this impacts mostly upon have-nots without private insurance schemes, just as they also lack the means to remove their children from the dumbed-down damaging state school system and secure them a decent education privately.
Have we got a “Worst Policies” of these parties as well?
shh, they are campaigning and you are to vote for the promises they make, not the realities on the ground the create.
What about the tax neutral switch if 10% GST, raise upper tax rates to compensate? Use the Key government logic but in reverse. That would help so many people so simply!
I still reckon having a $100b Bazooka party is the best solution! Especially when every day could be your last day on earth!!
Don’t worry about the after-effect. With the collapse and then the switcharoo by the US of them dumping their monetary system; from cash to the digital credit-cash system to wipe their $33t of debt that they can’t pay…NZ will follow because we’ve become part of the Globalist World Order.
We need to get out from under this bs and hook up with the BRIICS+!
Populism, Populist Politics is dead!
They have no good policies.
Or the ability to deliver anything.
Be thankful they can’t deliver anything, because everything they’ve tried to deliver is batshit crazy.
Exactly Jays. This government’s lack of competence is their saving grace.
The contemporary left is more like “We just got someone fired because he tweeted something transphobic”. Hardly the harmless puppy depicted in your meme Martyn.