The Labour led Government of Jacinda Ardern have made tiny baby steps towards being transformative but beyond tinkering have not been able to pursue a more progressive policy platform, however in crisis, Jacinda Ardern has shone and stepped up with a level of leadership that now sees her Party enjoying an outright majority.
This wasn’t an officer under pressure, this was the muscle memory movement of someone who has used this level of unnecessary force with gleeful abandon, many, many, many times.
With NZ First barely polling 2% in the Polls, this gasp for political relevancy faces a more desperate struggle this time around because of the enormous political capital Jacinda has built over the pandemic.
Thank you Jacinda, you have served your nation with honour and distinction.
Four consecutive Polls in a row, Newshub, TVNZ, Roy Morgan and UMR, have all put Jacinda and the Labour Party in the unprecedented position to be able to govern alone.
I’ve been calling for the Progressive NZ Left to assemble before the election to put together a policy platform that we need to present to Labour and pressure for implementation.
This isn’t social policy, it’s a grim dystopian satire.
There is a live streamed event occurring in July in Wellington bringing together the smartest voices on the Left to debate where NZ needs to go next.
At no point does Vance seek to ask why the Greens are performing so badly and based on the answers Shaw gives in this interview, I don’t think Shaw knows why either.
The tensions between China and America are now reaching a boiling point and at some stage NZ is going to have to choose.