@words – sorry auto correct – I actually mean’t “muddling along”. (not “alone”).

I’m an advocate for the opposition parties collaborating!

Labour has the least clear message (so far) hence my phrase ‘muddling’.

But muddling from Labour, is still better than charging along and destroying the country like National.

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Andrew said How’s about: Labour -The Xenophobe Party

“give it up” your National skirt is showing!

I see this pattern also SAVENZ and endorse your take entirely as this combination is what can be a credible line up if they align themselves to put up a block to face these Natz thugs.

We should promote them as “A Government in Waiting”.

Labour’s retreat into conservatism is very disheartening for many on the left who dislike NZ First’s ideology. Little knows this and the UBI noises last week was an attempt to keep the progressive left listening. But again, it’ll all end in disaster. Labour needs to stop being ashamed of its roots and reimagine a post-neoliberal framework.

Sadly, get prepared for fourth Key term.

The benefit to NZ of investors is only from innovative entrepreneur/producer investors. Farm/real estate/financial investors do not benefit NZ at all. But they make National’s gross economic mismanagement less apparent by bringing in capital.

NZ’s economy is tanking under National – house and commodity prices would be tanking too, without the external cash injections. They should tank, so that kiwis impoverished by Key’s corruption and Bill’s incompetence can still buy houses. If you want NZ’s problems solved immigration must be regulated in the public (not the Treasury) interest.

If it’s an economic argument on immigration, I’d say it should be far more straightforward to say that immigrants should be coming with needed skills or to invest. We should never be closing up those types of immigration as the economy and the country as a whole relies on it.

Caps really do sound like the first step into NZF country, even if they’re only during downtimes.

That’s part of it, but Germany is also in some ways a very intimidating culture to assimilate into, and there’s a lot of structural racism going on. (Plus comedians who do “funny voice foreigner impressions” are still regarded as hilarous. OMG)

I felt really uncomfortable whenever race came up as a political topic when I was in Germany, precisely because I recognised it as “oh, this is what NZF does, but on steroids.”