It’s sad Chippy feels so confident of retaining Labour Leadership
Camp Chippy cautiously confident ahead of looming leadership vote
Camp Chippy is feeling confidently chipper that their guy has the numbers to retain the leadership of the Labour Partyand there’s a desire to call for a vote to cement Chris Hipkins’ dominance as soon as reasonably possible.
The party’s next caucus meeting is on November 7. It will be the first time Labour MPs will gather after the special votes are released on November 3. They had agreed not to hold a leadership vote until after the special results were in.
Under Labour Party rules established back in 2012, a vote must be held to endorse the leadership of the Labour Party within three months of a general election.
Whipsmart Tova reports Chippy feels confident that he will survive a leadership challenge which is terribly sad because it highlights what a pack of cowards the Labour Caucus are, and it flies in the face of market dynamics.
Chippy’s lacklustre policy directions that cost Labour the election shouldn’t be rewarded!
THEY SHOULD BE PUNISHED!
‘Captain’s call????’, and who were you the Captain of Chippy? The Fucking Titanic!
Every single step in the campaign Chippy fucked up because he was cut from the exact same timid incrementalism Jacinda was locked into.
When the GST off fresh Fruit and Vegetables was leaked, Chippy had a chance to save this insipid meaningless policy by extending it to ALL Supermarket bought food, but he didn’t because he was too weak.
He killed the bloody Wealth Tax, something that would have been funded by the mega wealthy to give every Kiwi their first $10 000 tax free, but he refused to do it because he’s weak.
What the fuck was the point of Bread and Butter politics if no one could afford the Bread and Butter?
Look, I’m not saying there wen’t some gains over the last 6 years: Free school lunches, trust tax, new top income rate, free prescriptions, most state houses in 50 years, record investment in housing, healthcare and investment, regulate property managers, clean car discount, apprenticeship scheme, benefits to wages, FPAs – all great first steps, but after 6 years of ‘first good steps’, you realised you were just jogging on the spot!
We were promised transformative, what we got was less left wing than the British Tory Party!
Labour are over run by the Professional Managerial Class, they see the solution is better bureaucratic structures rather than an upgrade of the Capacity of the State and so spent 6 years recreating bureaucratic structures without the necessary upgrade of capacity.
Labour refused to explain what the hell 3 Waters or Co-governance meant because Jacinda hated conflict (her Cabinet meetings were nicknamed ‘The Good Ship Lollypop’ because she wouldn’t tolerate any negativity) and wouldn’t engage on co-governance or 3 Waters which allowed astroturf dark money to take over the debate and manufacture it into an existential race issue.
Fundamentally Labour needed to tax the rich to pay for the social infrastructure we needed, but because Labour at heart are intellectual cowards, they refused to engage in that, which left voters asking, ‘why bother voting for Labour’.
Why indeed.
Labour need a deep dive into what the fuck went wrong, and they’ve put together a team to do that, but I’ve already heard from people involved that it is a huge waste of time and won’t answer any real questions or throw up any real solutions.
Labour needs to tax the rich to build the social infrastructure society needs and it has to be able to articulate that vision!
Chippy should agree to stay as leader to stabilise the situation with the agreement that he will open a leadership challenge later next year and allow those Labour MPs wishing to challenge to debate the direction of the Party and open that to the members because his bullshit refusal to increase the capacity of the State to deal with the challenges we are all confronted with by taxing the rich, is inexcusable as a Labour Leader.
He can not remain as the Leader of Labour with that position. He’s as philosophically impotent as Phil Goff.
PS: I don’t care about Chippy’s new love interest, stop asking him questions about that and start asking questions like, ‘how did you fuck up the wealth tax so bad you ginger numpty”?
PPS: I don’t wan to see another fucking sausage roll for the rest of the fucking year.
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“It’s sad Chippy feels so confident of retaining Labour Leadership” MB
It’s sad because it reveals that Labour has zero new upcoming leadership potential, capable of rebuilding the Labour Party’s hopes for the next election.
You’re right Pat.
My first thought was: “If you think he’s bad, take a look at all the other total twats in their lineup”
He’s a shoo-in! LOL
Yet the new leader of our country doesn’t know where he is, Te Puke or Hawaii, we are seriously fucked and Andrew you are responsible, you tosser LOL!!!
Labour needs to hand power back to the ordinary members, rewrite the rules so that the “Parliamentary Wing” effectively the Caucus and MPs, cannot veto the decisions of the party at large. And, most of all “Captain’s Calls” whereby the leader can even veto the Caucus as Chippy did to David Parker and Robbo’s wealth tax proposal needs to be banned.
Only in extreme circumstances such as a terrorist event or disaster should a Captains Call be permitted.
If NZ Labour does not dump Rogernomics in favour of a “For the Many not the few” approach they will be overtaken by the Greens and TPM in 2026, and will be already as opposition in the next Parliamentary term. This is not be a bad thing at all if they are pushed by Fraser House dickheads into remaining a neo Blairist non event for working class people.
There will be plenty of buyers remorse when free prescriptions and all the rest start to bite for all the dick heads that voted Nashnull to take a swipe a Jacinda. So, the fight back starts tomorrow when the Specials are announced.
It will be hilarious as things deteriorate over the next several years asking the tory trolls–has the price of petrol gone down? has the minimum wage gone up? how do you like the street battles when cops try to remove patches? How is that weekly rental price going–oh, up…?
I want to see the government consultant work these losers spent a billion dollars on per year. These consultancy gods should have advised Hipkins to accept life failure and step down. They should have presented to him the stark reality of inequality and rising costs, and the need for fairness in wealth transfer. They should have ridiculed his little Hitler covid pantomime and shaken him out of his dead eyed inertia when it came to accepting lawlessness. They should have reminded him of New Zealand’s sovereignty and independence in foreign policy, and that condoning the killing of poor, innocent, defenseless people overseas is tantamount to a war crime. Maybe we should just designate these faceless consultants as the true Labour party, possibly replete with kindness, hoop earrings, soft denial and hard inaction, but definitely lacking in achievement and results.
Here is a possible citizen singing her very attractive heart out and might have Hipkins in mind. Sing along with the words starting ..Let him go….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3n9IMPim50
The PREFECT, will manage the bottom schools, as they progress. Those other new schools, how long are they going to last.
Chippy is the best man for the job.
Mike Moore came within a few votes/seats of winning in 1993. The next 3 years will be a shit show, as NACT+NZF will try and hack away what is left of the country’s welfare system and social services. There is only one way from here on in: UP.
The attacked by a ‘ bed leg’ comment in the debate was pathetic. We all know both parties have the same amount of bullies.
Parker the pick of a bad bunch. With Peeni as deputy.