Chippy’s wealth tax capitulation and 480 families in cars has proven why the Laila Harré School of Politics is so right when dealing with the aesthetic Left

ByMartyn Bradbury

Chippy’s wealth tax capitulation and 480 families in cars has proven why the Laila Harré School of Politics is so right when dealing with the aesthetic Left.

The most important political lesson I’ve ever learned in NZ Politics is from the Laila Harré School of change.

Back when she was in Alliance, she had to force Labour to agree to maternity leave.

Can you remember and imagine that?

Having to force Labour to give maternity leave?

Laila teaches us that if we ever want the Labour Party to actually serve the people and not the vested interests of the Professional Managerial Class, then you need to smash Labour’s head against a wall, put a gun to their head and scream ‘do it’.

That’s the only way Labour will act in the interests of the people, if you force them to.

Look at the resistance Labour are digging in to stop any debate on Tax despite the IRD showing us NZ Capitalism is rigged!

There are 14 Billionaires in NZ + 3118 ultra-high net worth individuals, let’s start with them, then move onto the Banks, then the Property Speculators, the Climate Change polluters and big industry!

Labour’s acquiesce to the neoliberal economic straightjacket is the price they pay to remain in power because as we have seen they are beholden to the Professional Management Class and corporate lobbyists, the only way we get anything actually progressive out of them is if we force them.

Labour’s greatest fear is a Bernie Sanders type of left wing populism, as food inflation continues to burn working people, the Māori Party’s demand to remove GST from food and to tax the rich is terrifying the interests of the ultra wealthy and that is why we are seeing the kind of insane donations difference between Labour and National/ACT.

ACT and National have promised to give Landlords the power to evict and build a new prison empire, they have declared class war and yet Labour are refusing to fight back.
The difference between the Māori Party and the Greens in making these demands is that John Tamihere is the kind of hard arse that can force that change through while the Greens couldn’t organise a BBQ at a vegan kink munch.
Labour must be forced against their will to do transformative change and as we face the most important election of our lives, we can not forget that. What is the point of power if you don’t do anything with it to help lift the poorest amongst us?

 

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4 Comments

  1. Foreigners Flocking to New Zealand, Immigration Data Show
    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-06-12/foreigners-are-flocking-to-new-zealand-immigration-data-show#xj4y7vzkg

    Immigration nearly 100,000 new migrants came to NZ while around 26,000 citizens departed.

    Many of the migrants are not working, children, students, elderly or on low paid jobs. They all need housing, health care, education and social welfare. NZ can’t even bother to look after it’s own people’s interests first.

    New builds are not being built to be affordable, but are more expensive than existing housing. The whole ‘build more houses’ to help the poor, is a giant Ponzi. Going in the opposite direction.

    NZ National Debt levels are keeping the Ponzi going. 2008 Government national debt was 21 billion – now 2023 it has ballooned to 89 billion. https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/new-zealand/national-government-debt

    The government is throwing money away like crazy, adding more taxes such as the petrol tax in Auckland while not spending the money, and increasing tax rates for the few people actually paying tax.

    People who don’t pay tax or are on minimum wages, or cash labour, require everyone else to top them up, likewise living wages are generally tax neutral so not a big gain.

    Instead of trying to raise wages across the board, NZ policy is suppressing them and allowing migration to come into NZ that requires housing and services but paying little to no tax. Again there is the rise of illegal labour that pays no tax!

  2. NZ place where criminals can easily come to defraud and Meth is easy to come by and imported into NZ in large quantities. No wonder more people now live in their cars!

  3. Laila Harré style politics would require… well, Laila Harré — since there isn’t anyone else even vaguely like her in the Parliament!

    There is now a shocking situation: as the Social Credit Party just lost their registration, there isn’t a single left-wing registered party remaining.

    How many ex-Alliance members are still out there? It wasn’t that long ago. There must be more than 500 of them, surely.

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