This support isn't exactly surprising. Little has union support, especially from people higher up in the unions. Those lower down I am not sure. I have heard both good and bad, quite a bit of complaints. Quite a few of us knew that unions weren't lining up...
I struggle to see why people are against candidates announcing who they will have a vp. To me the more information I get the better choice I can make. Grant thinks Jacinda is the girl. Good then I have an idea what coalitions he is looking at building. Now...
Great idea after spending 5 years undermining, whispering to the media, leaking scandals to TV, the DC camp think that the others should play nice and accept their man. If you hadn't behaved like you did against Phil Goff and David Shearer you wouldn't ...
The only problem with that thought is that the NZ voters don't want Labour/Manainternet/Greens. Left wing activists want that. We tried going left this election and the result was the worst election result since 1922. We cant continue down this path, we ...
I am very pleased that David finally has put the party ahead of his ego. he has known that he couldn't win for sometime. The best he can do now is to have a chat with Mr Key and get a position far from Wellington. No way Mr Key would oblige but. he steered...
Well DC didn't step down, he knew he wouldn't have a chance to be elected leader again. The unions told him in no uncertain words. (I said that before here but the usual out of touch activists didn't want to believe it) His legacy will be his numbers just ...
There is a few things thats factually debatable in this article. While SNP is deemed to be leftwing and further to the left than Labour this is troubling. SNP is a centre/left party. Shaped in the socialdemocratic form that we see in Scandinavia etc. That ...
Whats important to note here is that living in Auckland has become impossible for those on a very low income. They can live in Waikato etc but they struggle in Auckland. Why has this happened, mainly because our investment market ie the stockexchange isnt ...
One of the best things with this election was Labours triumph over Harawira. I am so happy he isn't in parliament anymore and that the Mana party is without finding. great result for Labour. Now fingers crossed we can finish of the Maori Party too at the ...
Of course, its Claytons fault. How could anyone think that someone else actually erred here. Its normal to have the wife of the leader set up semi anonymous twitter accounts and slag off members of the caucus. Absolutely normal, just what Mrs Obama and Mrs...
Its great that so many are joining the party now. You must be staunch Labour supporters to realise that its time to join after the election instead of before when the party needs all money it can get. What is it they say, with such friends you don't need ...
Ok, so now after the nutty loony wing of The Standard posters, half of which didnt vote labour, have decided that everyone who isnt DC or further leftwing is a neoliberal. Hmm must be great to live in that world where as soon as you disagree you call a ...
The problem is the amount of workers in NZ are not what it once was. if we cater to workers only, wed never win elections. We need to win the blue collar vote as well as that of the middle class to gain power. In this election we did well in traditional ...
Ah yet again another post who reckons the media is to blame. How about this, lets blame all the voters who didn't agree with us and boycott them. Its a great idea. And while at it lets ban all papers who doesn't agree with us and banish all journalists who...
I think the key thing here is who can take on John Key. DC cant, hes tried and failed more miserably than anyone thought was possible. Lets remind those who thinks its great to stick with DC that we just had the worst election result since 1922 and the ...
Wow, that meant we lost the first year of our opposition. 2 more to go. Anyone think Labour as a brand will do better with the voters after this squabble? I doubt it. I also see DC loosing support and being elected with less numbers that last time which ...
But after having read this insightful post and thought that here is a man with some experience and who makes sense. That here is someone who doesn't blame Illuminati and dirty politics but instead look at problems we have. Then I read the first two ...
Ah the non voters. And we still think that they in 2014 are brown skinned, living in substandard housing and raising their kids in poverty. Well some of them are, have been that way for centuries, but another large group are migrants and they don't vote ...
And again the same people, some who even voted greens, state that the party had a good election campaign and the right policies. When you say that in the face of the worst election result in 80 years you probably need to take some time off, do some soul ...
Its a start. I assume that the secret polls the parties do have alot more data in regards to this. I actually think that the student vote isn't as off as it may seem. A lot of the students don't engage in campus activities. Few, outside of Otago, care the ...
You dont consider that not all things are equal. This isnt a zero sum game. Had Labour done a deal with Internet/mana it would have scared the living daylight out of a lot of potential Labour voters in other electorates and its extremely unlikely that the ...
Do you seriously believe all this yourself? the conspiracy to move National right and having John Key as a frontman and involved in this grand plot. All led by bloggers and dark moneymen. The reason it will be buried is that for most normal kiwis this ...
The problem is that Cunliffe is seen as an extreme leftwinger who has been given his positions by unions and party activists. That position has never won a single election for Labour. The party vote clearly shows that people don't trust in the leader, in ...
And judging by this thread the original poster sure nailed point 3... How is it possible that when one has gotten the worst drubbing in a century people blame the media? Come out as Von Oben and states that the policies are right but they just need to be ...
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