The lesson from UK Labour meltdown that NZ Labour must learn
UK Labour’s electoral punishment is a warning shot for New Zealand Labour: voters hammered by inequality want change, not managerial drift.

UK Labour’s electoral punishment is a warning shot for New Zealand Labour: voters hammered by inequality want change, not managerial drift.

Unemployment, migrant “values tests”, homelessness and Māori anger collide in this week’s explosive Election 2026 political panel.

Maiki Sherman’s real mistake wasn’t what she said. It was letting the Government hold leverage over TVNZ’s political editor for a year.

More than 1,100 Kāinga Ora jobs have already gone. Now the Government wants to centralise maintenance teams while tenants wait longer for repairs.

New Zealand outsourced fuel security, hollowed out the state, and called it efficiency. Now the free market reality is arriving, and the poor will pay first.

Rich foreigners buying farms? Welcome in. Poor migrant workers overstaying visas? Bring in the political attack dogs. This isn’t policy, it’s hypocrisy.

The Government didn’t just cancel pay equity claims. It cancelled justice for more than 180,000 workers, and now the United Nations is being asked to look.

The money is pouring into National, ACT and NZ First, and critics say it reveals exactly who this Government is really working for.

David Seymour attacking RNZ from The Platform is Temu Trump theatre: bully the broadcaster, sneer at journalism, then call it free speech.

National wants credit for rents going down. The ugly truth? Rents are softening because Kiwis are leaving, demand is collapsing, and the economy is bleeding.