With the Specials now in, let’s just pause and weep over everything Labour, Greens and Māori Party just cost NZ politically.
On the Left, we will never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, 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I add the Greens and Māori Party in this clusterfuck of disappointment and political cowardice because they chose to prop Labour up and not challenge it.
The Greens agreed to go into this with Labour and the Māori Party spent their time on political theatre and stunts.
We are never going to have an MMP majority like this ever again and Labour must hang its head in shame at their cowardice.
The 600 000 Kiwis using a food bank each month were betrayed by Labour’s cowardice.
We were all failed by Labour’s cowardice and the Greens and Māori Party did sweet bugger all to force them to be courageous.
We just lost the greatest opportunity in a generation to make substantial reform to the rigged casino of under regulated Capitalism that is NZ and the demand on Labour, the Greens and Māori Party for 2026 is that they have an actual platform policy of reform and radical adaptation ready to implement in the first 100 days to side step the self-serving Public Service and venally interested Professional Managerial Class Corporate Consultants.
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What else did you expect from the Left – competence?
More of it there than on the right – three-fifths of bugger all to none whatsoever.
Yet Robbie you are happy to accept the corruption that is National.
Here is the phoney now peddling some of her fakeness in US Earthshot BS. Smile on smile off…. FAKE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld6V0bTKXOc
NZ Labour have to transfer the power from Fraser House and Caucus back to ordinary members and renounce and apologise for the 40 year monetarist pestilence that they started with Rogernomics, and the Natzos continued with Ruthanasia. If not, the future is Green and TPM into the future in terms of Parliamentary political parties that support working class people.
Also the NZCTU needs a class left leadership and stance. Again, something new will be required if the CTU class collaborationist position is not dropped. There was TUF a few years back that Robert Reid and many other lefties initiated.
And don’t say this cannot happen–after all, Greens party vote beat Act in the 2023 General Election despite puffed up Incel Seymour’s big talk, and big budget.
Agree the three left wing parties were and are a shambles,they should never be allowed near the treasury benches.
The primary message many got for the electioneering stage from Labour, Green and TPM is that white people are racist, men are rapists, and cis white men are solely and fully responsible for all violence, and anyone who thinks women should have their own spaces is full of hate. I don’t recall too much working class solidarity being mentioned. Hilary Clinton called the working class men ‘deplorable’ and lost. L/Gn/TPM called them hateful violent racist rapists, is anyone really surprised their message was not a winner?
Nailed it – lost my vote for one for exactly these reasons.
BW, I knesw you were a pakeha
BW, you’re not a maori
Tipene, you are only part maori, there are NO full blooded maori in existence, sorry to be the one to tell you the truth, you seem it ignore the truth.
Stephen, are you even a real person? Not a bot?
I’m not trying to be offensive, merely to make a point. The problem with identity politics is that it’s a mechanism to try to force people into a simple box, and to use that box to judge them. We are all far more complex than that, we do not fit into simple binary patterns, and we all have a range of views that are unique to us as individuals.
Are you Maori? Are you Pakeha? Are you ethnically Chinese, Indian, Samoan? I have no idea and care even less. What I can’t understand is why you consider it such an important point. Most of us prefer to be colour blind and judge by character, not by foolish identity boxes.
I am curious though, who is “Maori” In your definition? Is Rawiri Waititi Maori? How about Debbie Ngarewa-Packer? How about Nicole McKee? And Karen Chour? Winston Peters? Shane Jones? David Seymour? Simon Bridges?
Who cares? He makes a good point.
100% Ben, not to mention Michael Woods “river of filth” comments about NZ citazens protesting their loss of jobs
A thought experiment for those of you on the left – please think about how much Helen Clark and Michael Cullen would have done with an absolute majority.
Now, pause and consider why it was that Ardern and Robertson were incapable of doing anything other than managing the message?
The brutal reality is that Ardern’s Labour Party were inept and lacked any vision, plans or strategy and had no leadership to speak of.
The shambles that is NZ today is a result of this and it’s why Auckland hates labour.
Yeti – Very cool
I’ve said repeatedly on this site the Labour Government were totally inept.
I struggled to understand what they stood,for particularly Ardern and Hipkins,they had no plans no vision.Now post election they have been discarded having lost the trust of the people.
The true loyal Labour Party supporters have nowhere to go.
Well worded response. I agree in the first 2 terms the Clark government were great but in the last term lost their way but even at its worst Clark’s time was streaks ahead of Jacinda’s time I power
That’s down to Cullen.
“The brutal reality is that Ardern’s Labour Party were inept and lacked any vision, plans or strategy and had no leadership to speak of.”
lols no, the brutal reality is that NZ long ago surrendered its ability to steer an independent economic course.
The TPPA was the final rivet in the steel coffin of the neoliberal straitjacket that ceded economic and social control of NZ to its foreign owners. The TPPA gave multinational corporations the real power to sue NZ for the loss of “potential” future earnings should NZ dared to exercise independent policy that might threaten their bottom lines.
The rest is charade.
This is what the MSM never discusses.
@ Fabulous Martyn Bradbury. Firstly, I want to thank you personally for your and yorn’s tireless efforts at giving me a brain to fart from. Without you and The Daily Blog we’d literally have no media from which we could opine. RNZ’s a pathetic swarm of Smithereses smithering at the feet of the cheap crooks who own and operate us, TVNZ’s a nonstop promo for hair, dental, anal bleaching and waxed perineum’s while we, the pathetic people wearing our The Warehouse synthetics will soon have nowhere to shamble to except the grave and even then, we’d not gain entry unless we had the money to buy the tickets off the neo-fascist vultures stooping over while drooling in greedy anticipation from the stacks of rented headstones.
It’s now clear to me that the very most dangerous people are fools with privileges i.e. The Vote, because look what they’ve given us? A gaggle of nasty old children spiting and spitting as they lounge in luxury while we struggle under their cruel tyranny. As the paraphrased saying goes: Evil does indeed prevail where good people fail to resist.
On a lighter note:
We should ask, by any means necessary, the Crown for a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the very fabric of our beautiful Aotearoa/ New Zealand because our sovereignty of our country has never been at greater risk of dissolution then redistribution. In short. The gaggle of greedy sociopaths the moron class has elected will sell us to anyone with the cash.
Here’s what I’m going to do.
I’m writing to King Charles and Cc’ing in the Governor General. I’m going to try and be concise and direct. I’m going to ask them; Can we please have a public Royal Commission of Inquiry into Aotearoa/New Zealand’s politics and its economy spanning the last eighty seven years.
Watch this space…
Nota Bene. Aye boys?
We should ask, by any means necessary, the Crown for a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the very fabric of our beautiful Aotearoa/ New Zealand.
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Lol
And include the Treaty.
Aye.
But the venal public service bureaucrats ARE the Labour (and Green) Party.
Therein lies their problem.
The greens need to cleanse itself of social justice troopers, and just be what it is named after…”green”.
Our environment deserves a party that is focused on protecting nature. That should be at core of all policies. Until they keep sheltering social justice warriors, most of whom are just good at barking at every minority issue, the environment will never win other than at tokenism.
The greens are pro immigration. Imagine that, pro what is causing environmental harm and calling yourself green. Mental.
Yup – I left them for it.
The left had the chance to vote in the Opportunity Party.
Which would have been a common sense balanced view point with sound policy wins. But they ignored this opportunity for the sake of another couple of limited Green MP’s.
Top LEFT WING you have to be joking.
They are not even close.
Top are a sop to the right.
I couldn’t agree with you more M! WTF!! It’s a miracle!
It’s time for Government by Referendum. Fewer MPs in parliament making decisions. Give the decision-making to the voting public. It will probably be cheaper, more efficient and quicker. Constituents can swap out MPs and sack them anytime if they don’t do their job. Get rid of party lines and politics. It’s all theatre and a waste of time!
More dooey and less hui.
Why do we keep calling the right left? This thing called Labour is not Left. It is a right wing party pretending to be left. A proper left wing party would have introduced a CGT on day 1.
Agreed and the tax free threshold and FTT tax.
Well the Labour party got Keir Starmered, or it already was, and under cover of darkness and distraction.
I’m only a third of the way through and already agree with the basics and feel too depressed to read further. That’s not the way to be I tell myself. I think it is time to stop and go and have a cup of tea. When PM Lange said something similar it didn’t seem to do much good but still we all need our stimulants, hopeful pick-me-ups. And what to rise to? Why get out of bed in the morning? Time for something new, we are in the doldrums now, as soon as a useful breeze, (ie sensible plan) comes along I think we need to hoist the patched sail and go to a different port – same country but a different view. So start patching-
Remember the quote I put up recently. Bud Bilanich – He sounds from USA so probably knows a lot about this. https://budbilanich.com/the-story-of-everybody-somebody-anybody-and-nobody/)
That’s Not My Job –
This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that, because it was Everybody’s job.
Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have.
Ignore me okay, but remember you aren’t happy or you wouldn’t be bothered at all – you know you want to do it, so ignore me and do your own thinking and doing!
Don’t forget the positives…..We have cowboy hats in parliament….that must be a good thing for New Zealand….
Let’s have style, and stop being so stuffy about the small things. I agree about the cowboy hats in Parliament thing. It seems trivial but they wanted to make a point from the start that they should be listened to, and the journey starts with one step.
Labour is no longer the government. Labour are no longer even the opposition.
The Green Party and TPM are the opposition
Labour have spent years trying and are on the verge of making themselves redundant.
Maori have gone to TPM,the socialist faction to the Greens,and the Nat lite supporters to the real National Party.
A core of stalwart,deluded loyalists remain….and think they can continue as they have, with ludicrous Capt’s calls and half arsed policies to maintain the..status quo.
So what have you learnt about NZ’s “left”?
Labour’s Vision was just a bunch of bullshit Campaign slogans like, “Lets do this” which morphed into “Lets keep moving” to become “In it for you”? All these meaningless slogans were supposed to translate into some sort of coherent Plan for NZ but at the end of the Day, they had nothing, no Plan, no Vision & no idea? What is Labour going to dream up as their next Election slogan, “Let’s Fuck this Up, AGAIN?
The purpose of the new labour movement is to make the (new) right look appealing.
If the ruling powers can get them to pass some freedom curtailing, big brother rules at the same time then so be it.
Labour was all about poisoning the well of social democracy (without every providing social democracy). Brilliant.
Competence…
The Labour party chose to dance the wokey tokey and forgot that they needed people with more than half a brain to lead the country. The resulting omnishambles was a foregone conclusion.
The wokesters are still fully in charge and it’s hard to see whether next time around it will be any better – very probably not!
Labour needed this, you may not agree someone from the right saying it, but nevertheless Labour needed to be thumped and go back and listen to the grass root supporters about where and when they went off the rails….and not via consultants reports nor an academic think tank…TALK TO THE LABOUR SUPPORTER ON THE STREET.
They will learn nothing with internal think tanks.
In ’26 it’ll probly be like making policy about the wave while it breaks over you. But, yes.
What a funny, (initially) comfortable way to go to hell.
Comfort has buggered us more than the lions and tigers.