Dear Chippy, some thoughts on your debate performance & the inevitability of a wealth tax

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Martyn Bradbury
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Dear Chippy.

It’s time to step up Comrade.

Your low energy vibe in the First Leaders Debate was a voting boner killer that allowed Luxon to shine.

Blaming Jessica Mutch the way some of the tribal Left have on Twitter for your poor performance is the philosophy of losers, and you Chippy ain’t no loser.

But you sure as Christ may be post October 14th.

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Let’s be crystal clear what is at stake here Chippy.

National and ACT would represent the worst Government we’ve ever seen in terms of the public spending amputation they wish to proceed with.

ACTs bullshit Referendum on the Treaty will start a God damned race war and Luxon is too thick to stop him!

In short Chippy.

You. Can’t. Fucking. Lose!

There is simply too much at stake for your cautious advisors to fuck this up for the country and wider Left!

I know who your advisors are and they are chumps.

Nice chumps.

But Chumps nevertheless.

We have 3 weeks and you need to surprise the electorate and shock this election back into life.

You need to U-turn your Captain’s Call on the Wealth Tax.

Maori Party have made it a bottom line and the Greens will the second the 3 of you have a majority.

There is an inevitability to it if the 3 of you = 51%.

You call an urgent Press Conference, look straight down the barrel of the camera and tell the Nation that getting out around the country has been rewarding and you have met thousands of good Kiwis getting on with their lives, but that what has struck you is the intense inequality you’ve witnessed and that as such, you are reversing your position on Grant and David’s Wealth Tax and you will now fight for every Kiwi to get their first $10 000 tax free and tax the uber wealthy for it!

You need to surprise the electorate and make them want to elect you.

GST off my banana during a 30 year high food inflation rate is bullshit.

What’s the point of Bread and Butter politics if no one can afford the Bread or Butter Chippy?

Give the Left a real reason to fight for you, to fight for Labour, to fight for the progress of a Liberal Democracy that taxes the wealthy to pay for the infrastructure of Society.

Is it a high risk move?

Sure is!

But that’s where we are now!

If NZ First slip under 5% and Labour can pull out a last minute voter surge, Labour + Greens + MP = the Government.

Fight for it Chippy.

I’ve known you for ages, you are a good man and this country can not handle the social carnage ACT and National will bring.

Fight for it Chippy. Fight for NZ. Announce David and Grant’s Wealth Tax and ignite the populism that made Bernie Sanders so powerful.

You are out of options, and this is the last play.

If the Left votes – the Left wins!

Give the Left a reason to vote for you Chippy!

 

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91 COMMENTS

  1. He could also promise to legalize and regulate cannabis in the first 100 daze and storm home in massive victory. Nothing else would get the numbers he needs voting for the left to get out to vote.

  2. I wrote this before the 2017 election, it was a post full of hope and now 6 years later, it makes very disappointing reading…

    “Tomorrow is election day, I am in Queensland so I had to do an overseas vote. I voted for the Green Party, to hopefully give a new Labour Government a bit bit more of an environmental flavour, as well as adding the Greens opposition to the TPPA. I also voted for the Labour candidate in our electorate so as not to split the vote and let National slide in, like they did in Christchurch Central last time round. If you haven’t voted, make sure you do, it is well past time for a change.

    Personally I am OK, I’m back in the upper tax bracket, we have no debts, reasonable retirement savings, medical insurance, a mortgage free home and no kids, whose future we have to worry about. Maybe you are OK too & are living a comfortable life. Maybe you think the status quo is alright and change sounds scary, but over the last three years I have met a lot of people who aren’t OK, people who struggle to put a roof over their head or pay for life’s unexpected turns, even when they are working full time.

    If National had solutions to the problems that currently beset New Zealand, they would have solved them in the last 9 years. If they were trying to solve these problems, it hasn’t been working. Unfortunately I don’t think that they are even trying. I am sick of seeing people begging or sleeping on the streets, people working full time & still struggling to make a living, a housing crisis, a booming meth trade, a failing mental health system & a climbing suicide rate, polluted rivers & contaminated drinking water. This isn’t the New Zealand I grew up in and if this is the direction we are travelling in, it is time to turn the boat around and find a new direction.

    So tomorrow, make sure you vote, if you haven’t done so already, and consider what sort of New Zealand you want to live it.”

  4. There is no last play. That ship departed when the 3 Waters revist was even worse than the original dog and it’s then Labour redux and Chippy ceased to be relevant!

  5. Dropping the reduction in prison inmates is the latest abandonment of principles in quest of the baubles of power. I’m afraid Chippie is just an empty shell now

    • He had no choice because it was a stupid idealistic policy that failed us and that has led to law and order rating number 2 in voter concerns!

  7. You’ve got it in one Martyn. It seems, given the limp performances on the campaign trail, labours strategy is to loose the election.
    I don’t know who is running Labours campaign, but on the evidence they couldn’t sell bananas to monkeys.
    The one thing this country doesn’t need is to get on the back track!

  10. “I know who your advisors are and they are chumps.

    Nice chumps.

    But Chumps nevertheless.”

    Therein lies the problem – from the Left’s political class to the muddle and senior management PMC in the administration.
    I keep wondering when it was when ‘nice’ blokes and blokesses necessarily meant they were competent.
    The latest at OT and changes at Ummigration NuZull just make me fucking despair.

  11. Chipkins looked a little bit lost the other night, he does not appear to be sure of himself and tried to be the smart arsed schoolboy. Labour have been particularly weak on Law & Order and a number of other Key Issues, however they are continually patting themselves on the back for a job well done.

    I am frightened the NACT First block will get into power at the next Elections and with reek Merry Hell on the the middle and lower socio-economic groups.

  12. Chipkins looked a little bit lost the other night, he does not appear to be sure of himself and tried to be the smart arsed schoolboy. Labour have been particularly weak on Law & Order and a number of other Key Issues, however they are continually patting themselves on the back for a job well done.

    I am frightened the NACT First block will get into power at the next Elections and with reek Merry Hell on the the middle and lower socio-economic groups.

  13. Martyn, love the little china dog in your pic.

    It will be good if the govt cuts spending if it is all the wasteful wfh back room public service jobs.

    A figure I saw was a 40% increase in public spending on bureaucratics. This is not on!

    I don’t think Luxon and Act are going to be as bad as you think, but will willingly apologise if you are right and I am wrong.

    The panel on The Daily Blog at the backbencher was outstanding. The range of positions really sums up NZ politics.

    Huge shout out to Fran O’Sullivan calling out the de platforming of certain topics as evil

  15. Winston is looking as if he could pick up some soft votes with the Undecided Voters as neither National or Labour are sounding very credible these days, both are making up shit trying to gather Votes.

    The quality of Politician’s these days compared to 40-50 years ago, is very poor especially when old Winston from NZ First is starting to sound credible. NZF may get 10-12% if Winnie doesn’t shoot himself in the foot again, like he normally does Pre Election ???

  16. Gangs and Drugs are the main causes of Mental Health Problems here in NZ, the sooner Politicians and the NZ Public wake up to the problem the better.

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/p-easier-to-get-than-cannabis-in-rotorua-says-police-commander/IWGEMXTXLFGYPH23KNC53SMM54/

    Winston NZF is making sense outlawing Gangs as Terrorist Organizations and having/building dedicated Prisons for Gangs, were they can be reeducated and reprogramed, they are burden on NZ Society however they have been normalized over the past 20-30 years and are treated as if they are the Boy Scouts or Weekend Touring Motorcycle Clubs.

  17. The idea that they were IN POWER for 6 YEARS with an absolute parliamentary MAJORITY, and achieved NOTHING of benefit to the average NZer is causing a severe outbreak of cynicism here.
    In it for the money.
    Their slogan should be
    Buy a dog and learn to bark…

    If we end up with the worst NACT government in recorded history it will be as a direct result of Labour’s lack of ability, not the voters.
    Put the blame where it belongs and I’ll see you all in the first gulag…

    • “There is no such thing as bad soldiers, only bad generals” Napoleon

      “If we end up with the worst NACT government in recorded history it will be as a direct result of Labour’s lack of ability, not the voters.” J S Bark

      In 1990, after being tossed out of government by the voters, instead of some self examination and internal reform, blaming the voters for their own failings in government is the Labour Party fall back position. Between 1964 and 1990 after serving two terms in government spent savaging working people, selling off state assets, telecom, electricity network, railways, to private investors who asset stripped and ran those previous public enterprises into the ground while slashed jobs and jacking up prices to maximise profits., On top of all that closing public hospitals, giving the rich tax breaks, imposing GST on the rest of us to make up the shortfall, bringing in student fees in an attack on young people, imposing the superannuation surcharge in an attack on pensioners. After doing all this, the Labour Party were dumped from office in a landslide election, to a lying National Bolger National party that had campaigned on a program to the Left of all that, with promises to reverse it. (but on winning the election broke all those promises and carried on the same policies).

      I remember attending union meetings, during the period when the Bolger administration was imposing the Employment Contracts Act, where invited self righteous Labour Party hopefuls would smugly self tell us it was all our fault for voting National and we should suck it up and not go on strike against it. Just vote Labour next time..

      • Yes brother, I remember all that too. I was a railway worker in those days. The greed was sharp and led to many cuts.

  18. Labour are broken, out of ideas, their “successes” are failures, many of their highest flying politicians have resigned in disgrace, they don’t want to win because they know what’s coming. They have no future. It’s over. New Zealand needs real change, not more chaos.

  19. I’m hoping that if things are even enough, and the Greens are one of the kingmakers after the election, then they should insist on canabis law reform being their bottom line, and we may end up with a NatGreen laid back govt. Shaw and Luxon, both former sucessful pragmatic bussiness men and not career politicians, arn’t that different. I’m sure they could pragmatically do canabis law reform tokegether. The Greens wealth tax and Nationals foreign property buyers tax, also arn’t that different.

  20. “ National and ACT would represent the worst Government we’ve ever seen in terms of the public spending amputation they wish to proceed with.”

    As opposed to the last 6 years of the worst Government we’ve ever seen.

    • Yes a political game of limbo – but I’m betting it’s going to be a long time until the bar gets as low as Labour has sunk it and their sitting ministers are drink driving and getting chased down by police dogs.
      To say nothing of the division they gave caused in NZ.

  21. “National and ACT would represent the worst Government we’ve ever seen in terms of the public spending amputation…”

    Indeed it would, but that’s great news for hard working taxpayers.

    • Yes until you have to pay for $70,000 to $450,000 for an unfunded Medicine for yourself or your kids or your private hospital operation goes wrong and you need public hospital care which you cant get because the health system is fucked. Thanks to your favourite parties bullshit. All you Nat fans are the same scream about to much tax then scream blue murder when state services fail you.

  22. PS. And reinstall the independent Commissioner for Vulnerable Children, and dump the Free Speech Extremist Censors instead.

  23. Even my dad who is hardly a leftist has ruled out voting Labour because of Chippy’s defunded the ETS, we need to vote Green or TPM this election!

  25. You do have a point.

    My thought: how is that NZ is, out of every other OECD country (as I understand), the only one the doesn’t have a capital gains tax?

    And yes, the first 10k of income tax-free is vastly more sensible than cents off bananas, and the dog’s breakfast otherwise of deciding which foods are GST-included/excluded.

    I’m standing as an Independent in the Taieri electorate, a region of the country those up North seem barely aware of. If you’re curious, check out my platform here: votemacgardner.net (mostly about the awful cuts being made to our new hospital)

    Here’s a scenario: the left and the right are level-pegging on election day, Winston scores 4.99%, I achieve a mathematical miracle, and I can choose: whichever lot will support my proposals. Well OK, dreams are free.

  30. Wow!! You’ve scared the crap out of the usual ganglet of amoeba brained “real kiwis” with what amounts to more common sense than a good tory could stomach….
    The level of ignorance of any history, let alone political history, combined with the confidence of the true moron, and topped of with a heaping helping of the rank arrogance, and bigotry that characterises the best of the colonial descendants, on display in the comments section of this opinion piece, is actually depressingly normal for this country… NZ has, by and large, shown itself incapable of governing itself, as shown by how rapidly, and enthusiastically the support for making itself dependent on outside help to even feed its population is manifested through the colonial press, to a wave of “erudite” nodding and tail wagging from those worthy peasants who still crave a pat on the head from the “masters”…
    Pathetic little puppies and kittens pretending to be grownups, without a clue what that means…
    No prizes for guessing why all the smart ones are running away as soon as they can…. It’s bleeding obvious once the wool is removed…

  31. I made the following post 6 years ago, it hasn’t aged well…

    “Tomorrow is election day, I am in Queensland so I had to do an overseas vote. I voted for the Green Party, to hopefully give a new Labour Government a bit bit more of an environmental flavour, as well as adding the Greens opposition to the TPPA. I also voted for the Labour candidate in our electorate so as not to split the vote and let National slide in, like they did in Christchurch Central last time round. If you haven’t voted, make sure you do, it is well past time for a change.

    Personally I am OK, I’m back in the upper tax bracket, we have no debts, reasonable retirement savings, medical insurance, a mortgage free home and no kids, whose future we have to worry about. Maybe you are OK too & are living a comfortable life. Maybe you think the status quo is alright and change sounds scary, but over the last three years I have met a lot of people who aren’t OK, people who struggle to put a roof over their head or pay for life’s unexpected turns, even when they are working full time.

    If National had solutions to the problems that currently beset New Zealand, they would have solved them in the last 9 years. If they were trying to solve these problems, it hasn’t been working. Unfortunately I don’t think that they are even trying. I am sick of seeing people begging or sleeping on the streets, people working full time & still struggling to make a living, a housing crisis, a booming meth trade, a failing mental health system & a climbing suicide rate, polluted rivers & contaminated drinking water. This isn’t the New Zealand I grew up in and if this is the direction we are travelling in, it is time to turn the boat around and find a new direction.

    So tomorrow, make sure you vote, if you haven’t done so already, and consider what sort of New Zealand you want to live it.”

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