I fear the Left in NZ is going to make the same mistake the Democrats made against Trump.
It’s the Rights’ poisonous anti-treaty agenda, naked policy for donors on a burning planet and contempt for public services Voters care about, not Polky support letters, Landrovers up stairs or other Outrage Olympics.
Voters are holding on by their fingernails and want to know what we as the Left are offering them.
The Polls clearly show Kiwis are turning away from the extremism of this Government and the pointless friction being generated by bullshit while public services collapse and unemployment climbs.
We on the Left have to focus on things that matter.
That is not happening.
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Fucking right!!
Yeah, probably more sensible to call Seymour out because all his associates are nonces.
Hipkins looked like a schoolboy telling tails about a naughty class mate who he wanted to get one over on and score some bronie points .
I see that you’ve got your wording a bit wrong….
I think what you wanted to say, is that, Hipkins has been making Luxon look like a schoolboy in the house…. every.. fucking…day.
Correct Grant and the protection afforded by Brownlee is embarrassing.
As Hipkins admitted, everyone of those naughty Labour MP’s Luxon used as a defense were sacked because Labour have ethics and strong leadership. Yet Luxon’s hypocrisy in his weak leadership was laid bare by Hipkins. Not sure Hipkins is still the right leader for Labour but he made Luxon look like a novice.
Trevor’s inability to look through both eye’s will continue his blind faith in the worst government in our history.
That’s correct Squeaky. Poor Trevor feels he has to comment on everything which highlights his lack of local knowledge and history.
Labour needs to get talking with the Greens and TPM, consolidate good policy and start advertising it. I too, think they could have a leadership change to someone with proven debating skills. Hipkins has heaps of experience but is it that he wants a bob each way and won’t commit to one policy line? His stance needs to be clear.
The only one on learner plates is Luxon and I don’t think he’ll ever pass his test.
Three things win elections ….
1) Having truck loads of money so that you can flood spread propaganda, based on lies and deceit, so far and so wide, that the majority believe it and vote accordingly.
2) Form great doable possible policy that is presented with such clarity and empathy that the majority can’t help but vote for it.
3) Events
So far the Coalitition of Absolute Chaos are ticking, and locked into, boxes 1and 3…leaving box 2 wide open for Labour, The Greens, and TPM, to fill…
…Time to put aside any egos and one upmanship if any, form a united front, and get the job done, because this current clusterfuck of a government is absolutely terrible for New Zealand….They are nothing more than childish rank amateurs and wrecking every aspect of what was once a great country…ugh!!
The adults need to get back in the room …
This next election is one of the most important for a very very very long time. Returning this lot to power will push N.Z into an irretrievable nose dive tailspin with catastrophic consequences . …in fact, we are all but there now!…it’s very depressing.
The previous administration had an outright majority and every chance to execute your option 2. What did they achieve? Think housing, forestry, Dunedin hospital etc. Instead of *doing* what I had voted for they decided to introduce their hidden agenda and borrow billions, for which their has been very little public accounting.
Think Covid and the flow on effects…. Think 8 x 1 in100 year natural disasters all in the space of 5 years..
Hidden billions ??? …this is urban myth stuff…..please refer back to option 1….Treasury never reported any billions spent on hidden agendas.
What they did forecast, was Labour having the country back to surplus by mid- 2027 ….as opposed to National losing billions of dollars on a poor spiteful Interislander ferries decision and having billions disappear into the ether by borrowing 14 billion dollars to give tax cuts…predominantly going to the wealthier end of town…spent on The Gold Coast or in Fiji no doubt.
Then giving millions of dollars of taxpayer money to tobacco companies …you know those companies that make cancer causing products that, in turn, cause the clogging up of our already over crowded hospitals…
.and to top it off…
… donating taxpayer’s money, to the tune of 2.9 billion dollars, to those poor hard done by landlords, who have just made extraordinarily high percentage tax free capital gains by leveraging one property against the next.
The comparisons are stark already…and the National/ Act/ N.Z.First coalition are , after just 15 months, in big trouble already, and have not even been tested yet…
No worldwide killer pandemic, or even just one, 1 in 100 year catastrophic natural disaster to deal with….so factor a few of those in as well and then let’s see how they stack up!!
The left should be demanding an emergency aid package after the Salvation army report.
If we care about hungry children here’s what could be done overnight
1. Give the full WFF package to all low income children (another $100 + a week to all families on benefits)
2. Raise the threshold for abatement of WFF from $42,700 to $62700 giving low income working families a $100 a week boost
3. re-instate the former school lunch programme and extend it
\4 Allow access to benefits by partners when unemployed in two low-income earner households
Please don’t forget about us, Susan.
Your sugestions seem to be vastly overerlooking those that are single, don’t have dependtent children, yet are also struggling to survive.
Yep so bend over and enjoy
When Sean Plunket is making it clear he does not respect Luxon and Cameron Slater is asking very hard questions of him, why are the media obsessed with a letter from an MP who was not a minister at the time and a land rover. Martyn is right. Hint for lefties – check how discontented righties are with Luxon and make some hay.
https://theplatform.kiwi/podcasts/episode/sean-plunket-we-have-a-problem-with-our-prime-minister
Well well rules for fools. Anything goes. Lies Lies filthy lies. Free speech and all that.What a woke security guard . What an arrogant prick ( she was so right). Our minister of health and safety standing by laughing.
Governments get voted out not voted in? In the West, the normal lifespan of a government is about ten years, give or take a bit for term lengths. It takes a bit of effort to leave the party early.
Yup, they should be talking about how he handled the pedophile head of his political organization – it seems Seymour is more interested in us talking about his ‘dead cat’ instead.
Luxon’s ineptitude is probably the worst thing for Labour right now. Hipkins is realising that they can basically sit back and offer nothing but let the CoC implode and Labour will get re-elected – without offering anything substantial except more of their incremental tinkering around the margins. GST off fruit and vege, anyone?
Hipkins had better not be thinking that. His will be a one term govt. too if he fails to give people something to vote FOR.
Labour left a lot undone and shied away from certain decisions. That’s what Hipkins, all of them, need to be thinking about and talking to their possible partners about. The electorate will not be convinced again with an earnest expression and sausage rolls.
There have to be clear and significant plans for change.
Dumping the neoliberal ideas of the 80s would be a start.
Health and the overall cost of living are the two largest conerns in my circles.
Crime is also up there.
Addressing the first two tends to improve the latter.
Yes, why are the opposition asking do many questions about all these things that just keep all the wrong people in the news.
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