Oh for the love of Christ!
Who ever wrote Chippy’s weak mustard conference speech deserves to be shot in the face so they can’t have an open casket funeral.
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waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited and waited for Chippy to show some insight into how Labour’s cowardly incrementalism and spineless acquiescence to the neoliberal economic hegemony over 6 years won no one over!
Instead, we get a 2200 word salad on fluff about how NuZilind will be in 20-fucking-40???
Oh Fuck Right Off!
Labour’s 2040 Utopia is as pointless as James Shaw’s Carbon Neutral by 2050!
By 2050 the Planet will have melted making carbon neutrality a moot point, people are hurting now and all Chippy has is ‘hold on until 2040’ as a solution?
As for the reheated ideas and blah blah value added blah blah bureaucratic reshuffle of the decks blah blah technology blah blah, it’s all just noise with no destination.
It’s such a crap speech with no actual substance and it really does look like Labour are simply going to coast to the next election with no policy, no vision and no plan on how to make that vision real.
It’s the same bullshit incrementalism it always is with Labour.
The danger of their Talbot Polling is that it creates a sense of complacency.
Let’s be clear, this current hard right racist climate denying beneficiary bashing Government will be HATED by the end of this year, but if Labour believe they can just win without actually offering something better, they are going to get elected and have no plan again.
The only winner here is Chloe, who will just rob all of Labour’s under 40 voter block.
What an awful disappointment this speech is.
In 5 months, this venal, nasty, spiteful Government is as popular as puberty blockers at a MAGA rally, yet Labour are still sitting on their hands!
How many more missed opportunities will Labour squander?
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Perhaps at some point people will realise the problem is simply that Chris Hipkins is useless and is never going to change.
Or they can wait in hope.
Vague generalities masquerading as “vision”. Labour hasn’t had it vision since 1984, and that was the wrong one. Still, it means someone has figured out that they actually need one. We live in hope.
As long as the candidates are all ex uni politicos and the only jobs they have had were as well paid social workers, union reps, union lawyers, party functionaries doing script writing and happily say they are ‘passionate’ about the job rather feel genuine anger it will be more of the same.
“Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose,” Hipkins said. “The tide comes in and the tide goes out,” Hipkins
A very good summation of the Greens but they are angry too.
Chippy’s been set-up, just as he was with that dumb sausage roll caper to the King.
Eh? King Charles has probably got a sense of humour, still, or he would have gone mad by now. But Hipkins takes himself too seriously to be able to rise above simple jibes. He hasn’t a clue about what Labour needs.
But he must have strong people holding him up. So it is really Hipkins v Seymour who has money and strength behind him. Labour therefore needs more money poured down the funnel that’s what the problem is! But it won’t bring us a good useful Labour government even if he did win, the pathetic twerp.
Since Roger Dougla hardly anybody votes for Labour.
Instead, their election support are generally votes against the horrors of the right wing.
A sixth of the country probably won’t be with us in 20 years so this cohort won’t be voting for anything except Chippy’s imagined utopia and heroic legacy.
Labour, the party the left can count on to let them down.
Time to move on.
Let’s be honest: He’s the Bill English of the Labour Party.
Bill English was not just a talker though. He didn’t leave his portfolios in a mess.
Bill English wanted to destroy what was left of the welfare state, and instead have privately run services funded by government as a last resort for those who deserved it,.
Andrew. Wrong.English swanning off to Auckland to see a lugubrious pop singer instead of applying due diligence to the shocking Hager/Stevenson “ Hit&Run” Afghanistan report was about as low as a PM can go.
Sh*t just got real in Aotearoa NZ in the form of the laziest, least competent PM, so laden with hubris and the D’Evilles he danced with to ensure the role was his. I have seen nothing of substance come from this woeful attempt at a Coaltion government. There was no time for Chippy to relax, not at all. He did. It has been showing since prior to the election. Myself an a few others were very vocal on Social Media as to Chippy’s failure to address the Charter School issue. It is dear to my heart as I have some experience with them. So I spoke out, as did others and s little later, Chippy changed his initial response! It shouldn’t have to be that way! I am not a Greens supporter, other than as a small part of a leftwing Coaltion, and have been highly critical of their badly behaved Members but it seems to me the light at the end of the political tunnel is green and its name is Chloe Swarbrick!
New Zealanders got the biggest pay rises and impovements to working conditions for over 30 years thanks to Labour. Unfortunately those who supported National resented it and wanted ti all to stop.
Absolutely 100% correct millsy. Not only that, a few of those who resented it will have lost their jobs because of Nationals cuts and will rue the day they voted on protest out of pure ignorance.
Business as usual from the labour party, they’d rather lose the election than loss control/dominance of the left.
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