I think Gareth Morgan’s announcement of a Party vote only Party focused on pragmatic solutions over riding dogma would have a huge appeal to urban male voters who vote National by default. They are educated and uncomfortable with the inequality around them but wouldn’t vote Green or Labour.
Labour need to start thinking about where they should focus their strengths if they want to be the backbone of the next progressive government. Wonk wonk from Wellington Central isn’t enough.
Feeling safe yet NZ? You don’t protect democracy with a police state.
With Cunliffe stepping down, the Labour Party not only lose one of their best MPs, they lose any real opportunity to reform its neoliberalism.
If NZ is a test market for the US, the role of secret emails, hackers and dirty politics that all played out in our 2014 election has injected steroids while smoking meth and taken to the American electorate with all the charm of a fully automatic AK-47.
We’ve just trusted Uncle Muzza with $11million to try and cut a dodgy deal for reasons that are mercenary and without any actual ethics. Yay!
Recasting Labour as an urban party and winning Auckland with a two tick campaign is Labour’s best chance to get 35%.
Maybe Phil was expecting a Paul Henry who was slightly humbled by Lizzie Marvel’s principled stance to boycott the show in the wake of his gross description of women’s breasts to a journalist.
Phil was wrong.
If KiwiBank aren’t going to budge on their rule to disqualify Helen Kelly because she had the temerity to die before the award, then we should walk away and start the ‘Real Kiwi of the Year’ Award.
Paul Henry has shot his mouth off in an interview while Max Key yells out ‘Real men ride bikes’ to a bunch of cyclists.