GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – I’m getting a little bit tired of commentators asking where Labour Party policy is
Let’s cut to the chase. I’m getting a little bit tired of commentators asking where Labour Party policy is. We’ve been putting out policies consistently for the past couple of months and I’m proud of the policies that Labour have been coming out with.
I heard this stupid statement from Maori Party co-leader Marama Fox that the Labour team has ‘got a couple of new drivers but still the same bus’ – that’s right Marama, and it’s a bus that’s been producing some great policies that obviously you and your supporters don’t want to hear or see.
For the detractors in the Maori Party and other critics who keep waffling on about us not having any policies, here’s a reminder of what Labour will do for Maori, Pacifica, Women, workers and beneficiaries:
– 100,000 new affordable homes
– 20,000 new houses for Maori on Maori land
– 1,000 new state houses to be built each year
– $19 billion back into our education, health and social services
– Making polluters pay for polluting the water
– Speak honourably and respectfully with Iwi over water
– Charging private companies for bottling our water
– End immigration scams in education sector and stop international students from taking jobs and houses for Kiwis
– Winter Energy payments for the poor
– Give the unemployed 6 month jobs helping their community
– Payments for young families raising children
– Increase minimum wage to $16.50 an hour and force real pay parity
– Huge infrastructure upgrade for Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and the regions
– Implement a Healthy Home program that ensures all rentals are warm and healthy
– Dole for apprenticeships
Those 15 policies will do more to better the lives of Maori, Pacifica, Women, Workers and beneficiaries than anything National and the Maori Party have done in 9 years.
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Couldn’t agree more with every point you make.
The question should be ,where are The National Party’s policies?
Waiting for the Labour Party to announce something, stealing the idea, diluting it to the power of 3 , then ‘rebranding’ it as if it’s their own, is not policy making.
The media is asking the Labour Party because National want to know what ‘their’next move will be !!
here here Willy agree Marama has a lot to say for a person who has no constituents
Lets do it Meka Whaitiri
oops! I meant lets do this Meka and why we are at it lets do them ( the gnats & their brats Act , United & the MP)
Meka is just awesome!! “The Māori Party had a HUGE LOSS last week that went largely unnoticed by mainstream media” https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2017/07/18/guest-blog-willie-jackson-special-mihi-to-meka/
I am still waiting on national to deliver that brighter future thiNguyen that great leader promised and current naxos don’t talk about anylonger
What was the result of the “Brighter Future” ?
Something Marama Fox is unable to comprehend is the $40 billion moari economy ‘number,’- is just a number to borrow against for administrative infrastructure reasons ie roads, bridges, buildings. So that the maori economy can pretty much repeat the failed experiments that brought us the 2008 American crises.
The biggest problem facing town planners is how to cut travel time, to and from work, down to half an hour one way, or on hour return from work. Solve that problem and the $40 billion number would be more than just a hobby.
Couldn’t agree more Willie, I noted that on the launch of the Maori party’s campaign, Marama Fox, like the National party she supports, had a mouthful of lies and was stealing Labour & opposition polices. She’s dreaming if she thinks they will get 7% on the night, has she forgotten that her party refused to rule out National when they were approached by Labour? Parties would court Winston over the Maori party, National sure would but at least she has moved away from skid mark undie rhetoric, but the “bus” is no better and it doesn’t matter who is driving it the Maori party still cant do it on their own.
Sure Labour has some attractive policies listed here, but we still do not see a plan for a Living wage (the Greens have this) and a serious raise in benefits and removal of bullying and cutting of benefits (the Greens have this too). Plus we are not seeing them talk about climate change (their ETS policy like all ETS’s are far antiquated). Only The Green party’s climate tax will get corporate polluters to reduce their emissions while giving the money back to all households (a carbon tax is what more and more major institutions like the UN and even the WTO are now recommending, even the EU is regretting Emissions Trading Schemes as failing, despite being the region that has been holding the flag for the ETS)… Also, the Greens have a rent-toby policy for state and all other social housing. This is forward thinking.