Kiwis elected a grudge fuck last election during intense post-Covid bitterness.
They are now regretting that grudge fuck.
This Government in a mere 8 months are as popular as puberty blockers at a MAGA rally. The drop of support for this hard right racist climate denying beneficiary bashing Government is unprecedented inside the MMP political timeframe.
Culture war revenge fantasies masquerading as social policy is too conflict driven for the vast majority of Kiwis.
Social media hate algorithms will energise the polarised fringes of ACT and NZF, but the middle recoil in disgust.
What Jacinda’s ‘kindness’ actually did was force all State Departments and Agencies to act with kindness to everyone who used their services.
If an example of unkindness could get to the media, that Department rushed to solve the issue because they knew Jacinda expected kindness.
The first stand Jacinda made was dumping private spy company Thompson and Thompson from having anything to do with the State.
And this kindness mantra worked! Welfare punishment, state housing punishment, IRD actions, sentences, debt issues – every Department of the State was expected to be kind and they were.
An entire generation of people have grown up under 6 years of the State being kind, the new hard right racist climate denying Government now wants to remove any carrot and just use the stick.
To be replaced by? Seriously; do you think Labour, Greens and TPM can get their shit together in the next 2 odd years? Huge rearranging off the deck chairs on that Titanic are required to be electable.
Do Labour have an effective leader on the horizon?
Will the Greens grow up from their tilting at the woke windmill?
Can TPM consider ALL New Zealanders in their policies?
Are we faced with the same predicament as the USA with two stale options?
Labour have 2 candidates for next leader who could turn the ship around. David Parker and Kieran McAnulty. Just got to throw spineless Hipkins and half his caucus overboard first.
The problem is that Labour often have 2 or 3 good people and the rest couldn’t organise a kid’s party. When you add the Greens who are currently chaotic and TPM who are currently mad, it’s not attractive.
Same can be said for NACTFirst except I can’t think of the 2 or 3 good people.
Your descriptions of TPM and the Greens also apply. Mad and Sad.
So they are all sad and bad. I agree.
Why this Government will only serve one term – The Jacinda Kindness Feedback shockwave
Why this government will serve two terms – The Hipkins cruelty shockwave overwhelmed the Jacinda Kindness wave
If this following exchange is any indication of the lack of introspection inside the Labour Party of why Labour lost the last election, and the non-vote holds up, then a National government are guaranteed a second term.
Clive June 21, 2024 At 11:09 pm
A thousand poxes on the cunts that voted these arseholes into govt
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Pat O’Dea, June 22, 2024 At 8:29 am
“There is no such thing as bad soldiers, only bad generals” Napoleon….
Geoffrey Lye June 22, 2024 At 9:11 am
Go further a Million poxies on the cunts and the 750,000 that couldn’t be arsed to vote.
If hundreds of thousands of New Zealanders couldn’t be “arsed to vote” it was because it has never made any material difference in their lives.
Rather than bitterly attacking voters and non-voters the Labour Party needs to come up with some hard hitting policy that will materially improve people’s lives and demand that their leaders and MPs implement it.
The Nats have given landlords a huge tax break on the grounds that this would act as an incentive to landlords to lower rents. It hasn’t.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/new-zealand-among-the-most-expensive-places-to-rent-in-the-world/K6VX6ZRYN5CN7HWF4V7OK673MU/?
If the purpose of gifting $millions in tax relief to landlords was as a carrot to lower rents and it hasn’t worked then Labour need to win the argument that the stick is in order.
Labour needs to promise on coming to office that they will immediately enact a rent freeze and a moratorium on evictions.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/436727/renters-suffer-from-anxiety-sickness-from-unjust-evictions-study
A rent freeze will have a exodus of landlords and with not enough state run housing available you have the next disaster unfolding. Don’t always bang on about rent freezes . The market dictates the asking price.
Detlev June 23, 2024 At 3:08 pm>
A rent freeze will have a exodus of landlords…….
Which is the reason that a rent freeze must be paired with a moratorium on evictions.
The market dictates the asking prince only if we let it.
What I was hearing on the ground with people I work with was not woke shit but law’n’order – which was what the MSM was pushing hard-, housing, rents and rental insecurity and work . So this NACT NZ gets in and that is STILL what they are talking about except inflation’s been added to that along with just a feeling that the govt is meaner. Obviously people who voted for parties saying they were going to solve those things, and appear to have done nothing worthwhile are not going to be happy – could be why the scramble over cancer drugs.
This country is fucked due tp 3 years of price gouging by national party business owners who hiked prices for no reason .The Te Kuiti rail over bridge is a prime example .Pre covid the cost was a stagering 1 million .6 months into covid the price was increased to 2.3 mill ,for what reason, other than gouging ,was never made public .
Now Luxon has taken the reigns and we are quickly sinking into a massive shit hole .And all he can do is slag NZ at every chance he can .
Remember all those massive record profits companies were making 2 years ago ?what happened to all that cash .
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