What a Labour/Green/Te Pati Maori/TOP Government could achieve
TVNZ Polls are seen as the sensible and most boring of the polling in NZ, for them to be showing crazy swings like 5 points up and 4 points down are either a rogue poll or an earthquake shattering reality check.
TOP coming in at 3% is as enormous as NZF halting their climb, ACT falling backwards and National melting down.
As a Left Wing mercenary, my heart will skip if we can get a Labour/Green/TPM majority, and if TOP can be added with that mix, it would be all my Christmases come at once.
Adding in TOP (if they cross 5%) would allow Chippy to have wider options on policy than being held hostage by a radicalised TPM (whose internal frictions caused so much fear in the wider electorate thanks to the Kapa-Kingi’s).
Labour will hold the centre and won’t spook the horses. I don’t look to Chippy for the socialist utopia, I look to him to be a decent human bering who wouldn’t have borrowed for tax cuts we couldn’t afford and wouldn’t have handed hundreds of millions in corporate welfare.
If Greens tag team with TPM in the negotiating process to present a untied front in negotiations, that is where we will see the real progressive policy and the heavy lifting will have to be done by the Greens (who easily have some of the best policy) and TPM who have some of the most socialist tax policy.
TOP could bring disruptive ideas to the mix.
A Labour/Green/TPM/TOP Government could produce a legislative agenda on par with the Savage Government, a rebuilding of our social egalitarianism and a focus on all the people, not just the interests of rich donors.
If you are not excited by the possibilities a Labour/Green/TPM/TOP Government could actually produce if we win in November, you ain’t paying attention.
November is a long time to hold my breath! A Left win would save NZ from this current “wrecking ball” and while it will be a tough time to be in power, at least the country will be run instead of lurching from one catastrophe to another. Again, anyone who can’t see this is, to me, a sandwich short of a picnic. So those who want a better NZ, make sure you are enrolled ASAP; regularly check your enrolment; and turn up on voting day whatever the weather, no excuses! Never think anything is a fait accompli.