Bread & Butter Knuckle Politics – 501 decision, an enormous political victory for Labour
Chippy has made it clear he is redirecting Labour from social justice to economic justice with his Bread and Butter politics.
We saw it yesterday with the extension of half priced public transport and the 25cent fuel subsidy cut.
The economic recession post Covid has left everyone economically anxious and identity politics simply exacerbates those anxieties so refocusing on the cost of living crisis is a means of generating solidarity and solutions without alienating voters.
Expect a lot more universalism from Chippy.
The difference politically for the Right between Chippy and Jacinda is that Chippy will throw a punch. Jacinda killed them with kindness, but Chippy is more than happy to attack the Right directly.
Call it Bread and Butter Knuckle Politics.
The news this week that Australia has agreed to take into account the history and length of time in Australia of their 501s rather than immediately deport them to us is an enormous victory for New Zealand and the Labour Party.
The policy has seen an explosion of professional criminals with a level of sophistication and violence that has utterly ruptured the domestic gang landscape.
Allowing more and more and more of them to be renditioned against their will to New Zealand simply because they were born here (despite living their entire lives in Australia), has contributed to a destabilisation of NZ society that has caused enormous damage.
Shutting this tap off was the first thing we needed to do.
This now allows the NZ Police to focus on those who are already here and limit their empire building.
This is the first piece of good news in the gang turf war and an enormous political victory for Labour.
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Mr Chipkins is doing well so far, keep it up Chippy. The public transport and gas prices were pretty obvious moves to assist us ordinary folks, and he kept the measures in place rather than try and be a swot like Grant–always trying to out tory the tories.
While I don’t have much confidence in the 501 change- the left-uniparty in Australia are particularly dodgy (witness their failure to support Julian Assange, their war against whistleblowers who revealed crimes by the Australian military and intelligence services, and the current campaign to deport an Australian citizen to the US DIRECTLY FROM AUSTRALIA because he gave flight training in Cessna’s to some Chinese guys)- it’s good that the fuel subsidy and public transport subsidy are being extended.
Of course, if you want to avoid those just being subsidies to industry, you would need to seize the refinery that ‘Refining NZ’ are currently conspiring to destroy, and take over public transport to ensure sensible fees. It’d be nice to think that Hitchens has the courage to do that, but yeah, probably not.
This 501 Gang shit/thing has got under my skin for the past 5-10 years. If Chipkins is going to do something about it, it will swing the voting 5-10% to Labour. Handling these guys with kid gloves will not work. They are basically scum, and that’s being polite.
These guys are out of control and have no boundaries, they would kill their own grandmother’s if there was a $ in it for them.
Good summation Martyn. But would Hipkiss arrange to distribute some gobstoppers to the peeps in need now and then, just to show that though he isn’t santa claus he is cognisant of the real problems that lack of backbone and practical morality, by our so-called governments, has wrought on good people in NZ, and people who would have been good given half a chance to make some personal achievements which benefitted their lives, rather than being rogered (NZ universal style) by the beneficiary cult set up by the wowsers and malevolent in government welfare. Then I will call Chris H by his real surname, because I am afraid at the moment that his image if just that of an avatar. What a Doubting Thomas I am.
Chris Hipkins is making waves already albeit exciting ones! He needed to, as the price of petrol has been concerning for two years now. My interest is in whether he will adequately address the high grocery prices, and if he will reinstate some government funding to food agencies.
Remove GST off fresh fruit & vegetables and essential food items, FFS it is not ROCKET SCIENCE ?