Yeah a new party, why not? The revolution isn’t going to happen. Workers aren’t going to rise up and do anything. How could they, how could workers solve climate change? They can’t, we need the government to solve it.

A new party, really? How many parties are there now? How many short-lived parties have there been? All the parties in parliament have been co-opted into the neo-lib framework; Parliament is essentially one party, but with a revolving brand name every few years. Since the stakes for the winners of neo-liberalism are so high, sadly no serious reforms will happen in NZ without widespread protests & civil disobedience to paralyse parts of the country. This will probably be met with violence from NZ’s paramilitary police force which in turn will spark violent unrest. Kiwis need to feel more pain for all this to occur, but it will happen. The question is when. NZ has twice as many politicians per capita as the UK has & they are better paid than their UK counterparts. More venal MPs and parties are not the answer.

Two names with close to the same comment, what a joke.

How is it possible for your vote to be wasted when the difference between Labour and National is really very slim. National means full steam ahead and Labour a breather and cup of tea but certainly no change of direction. The wasted vote argument is a complete nonsense in such an environment and only serves to entrench the current direction.

You are not sane, mate, not sane.

I give you the benefit of the doubt of being totally DELUDED. You believe the west is superior for having brought us a consumerist, wasteful, destructive lifestyle based on fossil fuel burning, that is totally unsustainable, and that any alternative system running things without fossil fuels is inferior, right?

So where is your successful ‘western’ economic society and system that delivers what consumers are used to now without fossil fuels?