The Right need to paint Labour out as beholden to Maori Party AND Green Party demands which is hilarious because that’s Luxon they are describing, not Chippy.
Labour have been at pains to point out that they will be the senior member of the Government and the Māori Party leadership have acknowledged via hui on the sidelines of the week that the political theatre can’t distract from a serious policy agenda for voters angry at this Government.
Labour have stated they don’t want a war with the Maori Party and that the Maori Party have to be serious about picking their battles.
The Greens positive budget vision boasts strong vision and there is much to admire in their ideas.
The two questions for the progressive Left is can Labour,Māori Party and Greens hold up a pre-election policy platform of bare minimum in any possible Government for voters to see AND who should the progressive Left target as voters?
I think who they should target are voters who voted Labour in 2020 but voted National in 2023 and didn’t vote.
The people gave Jacinda the MMP majority to do real reform because we had trusted her over Covid.
Jacinda won the Covid war but lost the Covid peace because she only attempted to grow back to what we were before, rather than take the shared sacrifice and build back better.
The bleeding gums of our inequality were exposed and when all Labour offered us was gst off our fruit and vegetables, it said they didn’t understand the pain of our sacrifice.
We collectively (especially Auckland) turned on Labour.
We gave Jacinda an unprecedented win because we trusted her and she then failed us.
Those voters either voted National or didn’t vote at all.
I believe a pre-election policy platform from Labour, Greens and Māori Party of bare minimums of true progressive wins would appeal to those who cast a vote for Labour in the hope of some real changes and turned away after having those hopes shattered.
The Left need to dream big and put together sensible, pragmatic means to implement those big ideas as quickly as possible.
Our challenge is to build a hope more powerful than this right-wing selfishness and malice.
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Your piece is very true but you have not mentioned the fact Labour were heading for defeat in 2017 but we’re saved by Jacinda and before covid they were looking like losing .A combination of Covid fear and a disjointed National Party gave them a great win .Labour was given the opportunity to shine but for whatever reason failed to achieve much in the way of reform
. A weak leader and little in the way of policy is showing they have not moved on from their defeat.
And Labour were heading to defeat in 2020 until Covid saved them.
To have TPM anywhere near the seat of power will terrify middle NZ. They are a party of opposition, and much like Hone Harawira, will hate actually being in power because they’ll have to compromise. Pita Sharples and Tariana knew that you achieve more sitting with the decision makers than standing in a car park with a megaphone
You make a good case and it should be noted Greens soon lose support when they get power as their supporters hate it when they comprise to get thinks done .You can see this in Europe and Australia. They have good ideas but many are pie in the sky .
BG, Afraid of TPM because your idol Sean Plonkett said so or the Haka in parliament seen by ova a billion people? When Pita & Tariana were in govt Maori homelessness, imprisonment, unemployment etc… metastasized. The only good they did was get a useless UNDRIP passed in a forum that the NZ govt have veto rights
Correct Stephen.
Pita Sharples and Tariana left their people behind when they slept with the devil and their people responded and voted them out. Individually they lined their pockets as they witnessed English and Key doing this.
Trevor national did not have a credible leader and they still don’t they got in because of Aucklanders being crybabies being locked down and the rich giving millions for their own benefit
Those swing voters may vote for Labour if they see some policies that make sense, but I think as much as they’ll roll their eyes at Luxon, they still choose him over Chippie.
Labour had a once in a lifetime opportunity because of a number of reasons. Covid, the fact that National were a complete shambles etc and they pissed it away. And Chippie was one of those that chose to do that.
They should have kept David Parker as at least he had a vision and a brain.
100% Observer. In fact David was completely shafted by that boring no hoper Chippy. What a mess. He should never have been handed the leadership position after the complete pissing away of the mandate they were given to enact real transformative change. I hope we are not gonna be fucked forever because of it.
That would be me, so what are offering?
Better standards of life
this for starters. https://www.facebook.com/groups/171564126882442/permalink/1600509780654529
Another good kicking for LFOs?
When Adern renounces roger and seymours neoliberalism I’ll consider moderating my opinion re Adern. Until then, she’s just another one of them that we must tolerate to try and survive under.
A book by George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison titled The Invisible Doctrine. The Secret History of Neoliberalism and how it came to control your life.
” We live under an ideology that preys on every aspect of our lives: our education and our jobs; our healthcare and our leisure; our mental wellbeing; the planet we inhabit – the very air we breathe. So pervasive has it become that, for most people, it has no name. It seems unavoidable, like a natural law. But trace back to its roots, and we discover that it is neither inevitable nor immutable. It was conceived, propagated and then concealed by the powerful few. It connects all of the biggest problems we face today: global heating, democratic backsliding, rising inequality, racism, gender violence, the mental health crisis and more. Our task is to bring it into the light – and to build a new system that is worth fighting for.
Neoliberalism. Do you know what it is? ”
The Invisible Doctrine by George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison review – neoliberalism’s ascent
https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/may/29/the-invisible-doctrine-by-george-monbiot-and-peter-hutchison-review-neoliberalisms-ascent?utm_source=pocket_shared
Give this a go? Willie Jackson and Chloe Swarbrick as co leaders of the Labour party please, then together they go out and woo farmers to crank up traditional holistic farming practices, the same practices that built modern AO/NZ. The same holistic farming practices the natzo’s and their urban hangers on are trying to exploit as much as possible before they must bury their crimes in readiness for the coming foreign ownership. There you go. Job done. Thank me later when you’re happier, healthier, more secure, less paranoid and less anxious while living in the worlds last Paradise.
A majority of New Zealanders oppose and indeed are horrified at the prospect of a coalition Labour/Maori/Green.
A majority of New Zealanders oppose and indeed are horrified at the prospect of a coalition of chaos of National/racist ACT and NZ First.
As we have said coalition and the polls are pretty close it does not show a majority is for or against at this stage then you are clearly wrong Squeaky. Your coalition has yet to come together and hopefully never will.
Like all of your posts Trevor pomme they are contradicting.
What you show is how pathetic the comment is of your boyfriend Bob Troll because all I did was reverse it yet in your simple mind you were unable to ascertain that.
Looking at the future your coalition has yet to come together and hopefully never will.
Thats not what the polls have been saying bob
” I believe a pre-election policy platform from Labour, Greens and Māori Party of bare minimums of true progressive wins would appeal to those who cast a vote for Labour in the hope of some real changes and turned away after having those hopes shattered ”
Bomber if that’s what your hoping for which by the way is admiral then the current leadership of the LINO party would need to change. These two individuals have never given any indication that they are prepared to be progressive or their supporters in caucus.
David Parker was a major progressive asset but like the colleagues in the pro market Labour party in the U.K they have driven out anyone who supports a real progressive platform. Hipkins you will remember visited Starmer to see how he can continue the free market approach , not engage in any reform and get elected and maintain the corporate billionaire status quo.
This from Jeremy Corban recently regarding the Labour government.
” Until this government stands up to the corporate elite holding our country to ransom, it will never bring about the change the British public deserves ”
” The government could, if it wanted to, tax the wealthiest in our society in order to end child poverty, fix the social care crisis, and fund a bold program of public investment. It could end the rip-off of privatization and finally bring water and energy and healthcare into public ownership. It could take on fossil fuel giants to kickstart a Green New Deal. Instead, today’s unambitious statement bakes in decades of inequality, depriving millions of people of the resources they need ”
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/06/13/jeremy-corbyn-rachel-reeves/
Bomber the U.K Labour party will oversee the cut to the benefit’s for disabled people who rely on it.
” New figures from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) reveal a startling trend: over one-third of Universal Credit claimants are chronically ill and/or disabled. Yet despite this, Liz Kendall’s new ‘protections‘ in her upcoming planned cuts will do nothing for these 1.9 million people ”
It’s been an anxious and uneasy few months for disabled people, with threats of drastic cuts to our benefits on the horizon. As always with the government, there’s been a distinct lack of clarity, even around when the legislation will be announced and debated – though we expect it to be before the actual consultation has ended, which tells you everything you need to know
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/06/14/dwp-universal-credit-cuts-protections/
Obviously in comes down to the numbers in the oligarchy parliament after the general election but you will have to factor Winston into the mix and if Hipkins retains the leadership despite their animosity they will do a deal to protect the powerful echelon’s interests and their donors.
Hipkins , Sepuloni and their colleagues from the last government haven’t changed their behavior or what motivates them.
Just look back to their last term in office and what they prevented taking progressive reform on the crises created under neo liberal economy and now worsened under the NZI , ATLAS , NAT-ACT Corporate regime.
LINO can’t realistically promise to be anything other than being the go to major party when the NATZ finally lose support.
The Greens and TMP would never get into bed with these soft corruption party members but LINO turns up with the wine and Viagra !
” MacCulloch announced this week that he is closing his long-running blog, explaining that “National, Labour and Big Business NZ have begun to complain & threaten me at the highest levels about my writings. The game has become clear. Continue doing so and it will mean the end of your career” – see: DownToEarth.Kiwi Closing Due to Threats from National & Labour Parties & Big Business NZ Incorporated “
I think I said it in a previous comment, even on this post a few hours ago, the 2020 vote for Labour was utterly disproving of these ‘fucks’!
Now I’ll go and read your post.