Waatea News Column: Why the factions inside Labour matter more than ever in a Majority Government
One of the most interesting changes with a majority Government is the re-emergence of the importance of the factions inside a Party.
Author: Martyn Bradbury
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Jacinda replaces Winston as a handbrake with all the landed gentry of NZ
By artificially inflating the needs of the new National voters interests over Jacinda’s own tribe, she is telling the landlords of NZ she won’t do anything to harm them yet the mentally ill, the homeless, the working poor, the beneficiaries, the renters the prisoners, the poor and the disabled – their interests come AFTER the National Party landlords???
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The 2 simple reasons why Labour won an unprecedented MMP majority
Psychological reset of the electorate & the demographic death spiral of National
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TWITTER WATCH: So Hamish Price, when are you leaving Twitter?
…come on Hamish, if Duncan Garner will go Vegan for getting it wrong, you have to leave Twitter.
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Now Labour have humiliated Greens – the Greens must vow Opposition
With a huge Caucus, Jacinda needs the room in her Cabinet for Labour aspiration, not Green aspiration and will only throw Shaw the scraps of Climate Change Minister.
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A Righteous Crimson Tsunami! The Ultimate 2020 NZ Election Losers & Winners Guide
After plague and pestilence, the righteous crimson tsunami has swept all before it with the vengeance of low level socialism.
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Waatea News Column: Brown Wave joins a Labour Red Wave to reshape NZ political landscape
I started 2020 arguing that Māori would be a decisive voting block in this election, but not even I could have hoped for the kind of result we ended with.
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Jacinda smacks down the Greens: Gryffindor becomes Slytherin to kill Hufflepuff
What Jacinda is banking on is the cowardice of the current Green leadership of Davidson and Shaw to be bullied into accepting a substandard deal.
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TWITTER WATCH: The 5 grief stages of Hootonism
…never before have so many rich white men wept so many tears for so few actual Left wing policy gains.
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How the Specials will change the result
There are 480,000 special votes yet to be counted, that’s 17% of total votes. This includes an estimated 66,000 overseas and dictation votes.