New Poll: People Chippy needs to talk to for Labour re-set or his leadership is toast
National extends lead in latest Talbot-Mills poll, Chris Hipkins falls
National is extending its lead over Labour, with support for the party lifting two points to 38 per cent, a new poll shows.
Labour’s support fell one point to 29 per cent. The figures come from Talbot-Mills’ poll for corporate clients. Talbot-Mills runs a separate internal poll for the Labour Party.
The Greens were steady on 12 points, while Act fell one point to 7 per cent.
NZ First was on 6.2 per cent, Te Pāti Māori polled 4.9 per cent, and Top polled 1.4 per cent.
I told you the TPU Poll was a rogue poll!
Labour won’t budge in the Polls until voters some actual policy that meets their realities.
When Labour dumped the wealth tax that would have seen everyone get $10 000 tax free, voters intellectually saw no reason to vote Labour.
When Labour dumped the Capital Gains Tax and locked into place the privilege of the mega landlords, voters intellectually saw no reason to vote Labour.
When all Labour had to offer was GST off your bananas, voters intellectually saw no reason to vote Labour.
Labour either reset the agenda by holding a ‘Rebuilding Aotearoa New Zealand’ weekend overseen by Labour that brings forward the best minds in NZ to give their ideas on how to move forward or Labour don’t look like they have learnt anything.
Chippy needs to meet and hear some of the best progressive visionaries NZ has.
Māori Legal Expert Annette Sykes – No one can give insight into the righteous anger of Māoridom like Annette can.
Documentary Film Maker Bryan Bruce – knows more about free market capitalism and poverty than the Reserve Bank Governor.
Economics Professor Tim Hazeldean – Has actual economic solutions.
Visionary Revolutionary Max Harris – His vision for a Ministry of Green Works is ahead of its time.
Greenpeace director Russel Norman – His insight and oversight on how we move rot a sustainable economy is essential.
Child Poverty Action Group and Auckland Action Against Poverty – They are at the coal face of child poverty and their advice are the only ones that matter.
CTUs Craig Renney – His leadership from the CTU on economic issues has been unparalleled.
If Chippy can’t organise a reset and present Labour policy that pushes for Left Universalism and Economic Justice, then all eyes turn to Kieran McAnulty to step up as a challenger to his Leadership.
It’s as naked and as obvious as that.
Chippy either generates a reset or he gets crushed in the gravity of Labour”s failures.
What does NZ Labour stand for because we have a Party that is more right wing than the British Tory Party!
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sounds like a good plan .Get people from the coal face to set policy not some one sitting in an office doing bugger all .Then dont deviate from the plan for fucks sake just to please a 1% fringe voter lobby group that might vote for you .I would also find a decent farmer rep to be on the think tank as well .Clearly Rennie would make a good finance or wellfare minister but then he might get swallowed up by the caucus and shut down .Kerin should be made leader as he seems able to stick to the program and wont be making captains calls every second day .
Well if you accept politics is merely the parliamentary form, then you can get into this type of debate. The Labour Caucus has had 40 years of Rog’n’Ruth instilled and the neo liberal state is like a biblical tenant carved in stone–State Sector Act, Reserve Bank Act, State owned Enterprises, contracting out, Bennie bashing, Māori bashing, Union busting, administrative bloat, free in and out flow of capital…
What Chloe offers and media channels definitely do not want to hear–is community organising, and the re-involvement of ordinary people in politics. For it is mass action that will ultimately turn things around.
Hopkins must quit the top job, he should have been long gone. No to McNulty and yes to Willy Jackson as leader. He is the only one with the chops and personality in Labour.
Jackson is on his way out. McNulty couldnt even hold his seat. For what it’s worth, I think we are screwed.
Lone comet. U can’t have Willy. Enthusiasm yes, but logic know. I think they may need to look outside the party. Like Luxon came in.
They also need to back away from Trans promotion.
There is NO objective data supporting what is laughably called gender theory, and it should never have been able to gain access to schools.
LGB is 3% of the population (Australian figures), T= 1:30,000. The latter costs a lot more votes than it will ever win.
Labour need to decide whether they are Labour or Gay Bar – the only political capital they spent last term was being the latter. There are no votes there.
Would love to know what you have against LGBT. Perhaps you are too engrossed with Leviticus or whatever it is for your own good.
I think Stuart is right, and I have nothing against LGBT+ people at all. Identity politics is just such a huge distraction from the real issues of class warfare. I’ve seen it in the schools and I’ve witnessed classes where the kids are way too young for this stuff. Of course it’s important to teach tolerance and respect for all people but it should be couched in the same discussions as racism and, what the schools seem to be obsessed with, American Civil Rights history.
I don’t actually think it was Labour’s fault, it was more a case of popular culture setting the agenda, but I knew long-time Labour voters with kids who were voting for the Nats over this issue. The political left certainly copped the flak for it, not helped by Marama Davidson’s ridiculous outburst.
Child Poverty Action Group and Auckland Action Against Poverty are hopelessly comprimised they were righteous in their protest at the Key govt and were a regular feature ourside John Keys house for better or worse… under Jacindas Labour govt… crickets… while on the ground more people were sleeping in cars more kids in dive hotels…