Dear Labour – we need urgent kindness now
What is the point of winning an outright majority if you aren’t going to use it?
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What is the point of winning an outright majority if you aren’t going to use it?
If the Green Leadership mistake their better than expected result as evidence that their middle class identity politics virtue signalling alongside incremental environmental gains was a success, then they are doomed.
It seems insane that these feeble old men warble at each other while America burns with social injustice and Covid.
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???
Psychological reset of the electorate & the demographic death spiral of National
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.
After plague and pestilence, the righteous crimson tsunami has swept all before it with the vengeance of low level socialism.
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.
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.
Our turn out was amazing.