Election 2020: Last Leaders Debate – Winners & Losers
Jessica is wearing a large purple dress.
She looks like Grimace.
I find it hard not to burst out laughing every time she appears.
I’ve spilled my beer 3 times so far.
Jacinda’s weasel words about how she is now redefining the word ‘transformative’ is grim.
Judith looks like she’s been slipped the same amount of Xanax David Seymour was slipped last week during the multi party debates.
This is clearly Judith wanting to stop projecting this…
…and this..
…apparently the snarling crazy woman routine isn’t warming voters to National.
Watching Jacinda struggling to justify the drunk baby steps her last 3 years have resulted in is painful.
Watching Judith pretend she gives a fuck about child poverty is far more painful.
Jacinda could have slept through the entire debate and she would still have won. Judith has had such an appalling week on the campaign, National will be lucky to poll over 30%.
Jacinda fired up about Judith saying Labour will implement the Greens wealth tax, it was the only time anything interesting happened.
The Greens should dump the wealth tax and look at a financial transaction tax instead.
Judith has no real plan and Jacinda doesn’t want to do much more than manage.
Progressives will have to hope the Greens and the Māori Party can negotiate something actually transformative but to do that, Labour need to have a plan to reform the neoliberal state.
Unfortunately Labour have no such plan.
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“Labour has no such plan”…….yes its midnight…..no no no its midday………then how come its still dark………take you darkly tinted glasses off…eh
Yeeeeessss to the financial transaction tax. Why the feckity feckity isn’t anybody talking about this? Its a no brainer.
Unless I misheard her, at the very end of the debate time Jacinda seemed to be making a commitment to re-forming the Welfare System. Yes, it is long, long overdue, but she did say something to that effect.
This is abit off the beaten track of current news cycle analysis I admit, but wonder all the same:
why would Jacinda, who had been running rings around the entire ‘right’ political media establishment ‘gotcha’ politics of the last Govt. term; back herself into a political corner, shooting herself in the foot with this plain categorical negation of a wealth tax ( which is also the natural and somewhat orthodox ‘Left’ instrument to shortfalls in capitalism ) right before the election – something She was quite up front about as what She saw as failing last election time b4 Labour’s better than expected result….because the Act guy is err…8%?
The NZ economic forecast, when pigs fly lol
Rather there is unprecedented Left opportunity for returns in this current phase of the Debt sine wave (national and globally) for the significant increase of Direct tax on economic activity with the highest associated deflation against the multiplying of value with stable price – IMO
Your question, Billygoat, Yes. I’ve been wondering that too. It didn’t make good sense and ‘disappointing’ doesn’t cover it.
The best part of the debate was when Judith stated her whole party are behind her. What she failed to mention was that at least half have knives in their hands.
My first wish for the new Cabinet – Marama to replace Sepuloni!!!!!!!!!!
Agree 100% someone with a bit of Empathy and no holds barred attitude is sorely needed.
Along with Julie Ann Genter in the Health / ACC portfolio.
Our Healthcare from the gp to our meds to our long term suffers welfare funding are worse than the usa.
Yes, Julie Ann for sure!
I’m not big on fireworks usually, but this 5th Nov I wouldn’t mind having a small bonfire packed with a stack of mini political effigies. (Might start making some…)
Careful Frank, you’re turning woke. (Gargh…)
+100… “The Greens should dump the wealth tax and look at a financial transaction tax instead.”
The Greens might also offer to halve their MP salaries and drive second hand Japanese cars to show solidarity to those struggling financially