HOW DID IT HAPPEN? Where did she go? The Jacinda Ardern who rocked our world? Where did she lose her sparkle and her stardust? What, or who, took from her the qualities that had so decisively interposed themselves between the centre-left and almost certain defeat?
How about they stop panicking, start a far better internal communication plan, utilise the personal relationships they already have existing with Winston within the Labour caucus and get some bloody runs on the board.
The failure of neoliberalism has been looming for sometime, but the questions we should be asking as the global economy continues to dance spastically on the lip of the volcano is what does this mean politically for New Zealand and what should the new Government look to do as a response.
Why appear on a show with no audience, just to get tripped up on purpose by Paddy wannabes Tova, Duncan or Lisa to manipulate a headline for the 6pm news?
let us acknowledge that it has been a long harsh winter for far too many children. The Families Package was too slow coming, and for the 140,000+ children below the very lowest 40% poverty line it has been a drop in the bucket. Without a longer-term goal of systemic reform, short term improvements can seem like tinkering and band aids. Or even worse, they may create the illusion the problems are solved.
Bill Rosenberg is the economist and director of policy for the Council of Trade Unions
In all the noise over the current fiasco, people have forgotten that what Labour are proposing is so mild as to be laughable. The only people who can seriously claim this will hurt business pay their staff a pittance and probably shouldn’t be in business.
TRIGGER WARNING: This blog is not as mean to Heather du Pleases-Allan as the title suggests
Well that was pretty meaningless with a hint of crisis management wasn’t it?
These are the ongoing effects of 30+ years of neo-liberalism, a political philosophy aimed at shifting wealth from the poor to the rich in New Zealand. It has been a most successful movement. Even though, as Max Rashbrooke shows, the bottom 90% of New Zealanders are worse off, most people still think that it is the best economic model.