Labour, Greens and Maori Party have to aim at the 2020 voter who gave Jacinda an unprecedented MMP majority
The Right need to paint Labour out as beholden to Maori Party AND Green Party demands which is hilarious because that’s Luxon they are describing, not Chippy.
Labour have been at pains to point out that they will be the senior member of the Government and the Māori Party leadership have acknowledged via hui on the sidelines of the week that the political theatre can’t distract from a serious policy agenda for voters angry at this Government.
Labour have stated they don’t want a war with the Maori Party and that the Maori Party have to be serious about picking their battles.
The Greens positive budget vision boasts strong vision and there is much to admire in their ideas.
The two questions for the progressive Left is can Labour,Māori Party and Greens hold up a pre-election policy platform of bare minimum in any possible Government for voters to see AND who should the progressive Left target as voters?
I think who they should target are voters who voted Labour in 2020 but voted National in 2023 and didn’t vote.
The people gave Jacinda the MMP majority to do real reform because we had trusted her over Covid.
Jacinda won the Covid war but lost the Covid peace because she only attempted to grow back to what we were before, rather than take the shared sacrifice and build back better.
The bleeding gums of our inequality were exposed and when all Labour offered us was gst off our fruit and vegetables, it said they didn’t understand the pain of our sacrifice.
We collectively (especially Auckland) turned on Labour.
We gave Jacinda an unprecedented win because we trusted her and she then failed us.
Those voters either voted National or didn’t vote at all.
I believe a pre-election policy platform from Labour, Greens and Māori Party of bare minimums of true progressive wins would appeal to those who cast a vote for Labour in the hope of some real changes and turned away after having those hopes shattered.
The Left need to dream big and put together sensible, pragmatic means to implement those big ideas as quickly as possible.
Our challenge is to build a hope more powerful than this right-wing selfishness and malice.
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Your piece is very true but you have not mentioned the fact Labour were heading for defeat in 2017 but we’re saved by Jacinda and before covid they were looking like losing .A combination of Covid fear and a disjointed National Party gave them a great win .Labour was given the opportunity to shine but for whatever reason failed to achieve much in the way of reform
. A weak leader and little in the way of policy is showing they have not moved on from their defeat.
Trevor national did not have a credible leader and they still don’t they got in because of Aucklanders being crybabies being locked down and the rich giving millions for their own benefit
Those swing voters may vote for Labour if they see some policies that make sense, but I think as much as they’ll roll their eyes at Luxon, they still choose him over Chippie.
Labour had a once in a lifetime opportunity because of a number of reasons. Covid, the fact that National were a complete shambles etc and they pissed it away. And Chippie was one of those that chose to do that.
They should have kept David Parker as at least he had a vision and a brain.
100% Observer. In fact David was completely shafted by that boring no hoper Chippy. What a mess. He should never have been handed the leadership position after the complete pissing away of the mandate they were given to enact real transformative change. I hope we are not gonna be fucked forever because of it.