I didn't vote for Little and ranked him last on the ballot. I'll be the first to say the media hasn't treated him well and his first year of leadership was incredibly promising. But this week Labour has endorsed subsidizing farmers, a bizarre OCR policy ...
Papakura is like one of the most right-leaning electorates in the country. The only person who would have that sort of appeal and resources would be; Winston Peters and Colin Craig. The former obviously can't run anymore and if I had to chose the lesser of...
Good but he still shouldn't have made the joke in the first place.
Thank you. I totally agree and would like to point out to commentators who supported Little in the last leadership election and claimed homophobia was non-existent in Labour should have had a wake up call. Little's comments were deplorable and the reality ...
Still convinced Little was right, to shelve this policy then people? Although this is a step in the right direction and it is a win for the left to see National finally admitting a problem. They should still be attacking this as too little, too late.
Haha, I like what you did there.
Yes, Government Overseas Debt is the more relevant graph for sure. That's why a $100k mortgage on a $20k salary is so much more manageable than a $200k mortgage on a $100k salary. Honestly, is the right this desperate that they've given up on real terms ...
Which any economist will tell you is a good thing. If there's anything we've learnt from the GFC it's that Keynesian policy works. The countries that have initiated stimulus are the ones that have weathered the recession best. Or to quote your mate Bill ...
Did you read my comment at all? Firstly, I did not suggest that Labour policy is irrelevant just in a parliamentary system it is irrelevant what policy is if they're in opposition, it will never be implemented. Keep the economic policy 'neutral' and a deal...
I can almost guarantee this bill will sadly be irrelevant to the rest of the nation not 'Thorndon Bubble' references will almost certainly be lost on them. Did you do any canvassing last parliamentary term for Labour? Because, I did and one of the most ...
I think there are interesting parallel's here with the repeal of section 58 (the incorrectly coined anti-smacking) legislation. Labour took all the flack for the perception of being a nanny state even though National backed the law and probably contributed...
Education is a huge portfolio it wouldn't be right to mix it with something else. Also, Hipkins has done a great job in education so far and Robertson is hardly an old face being elected in '08.
Oh that's completely disingenuous to suggest he doesn't want the CGT or NZ power scrapped. It's exactly the same language Cunliffe used about reviewing the GST on fruit and vegetables as well as the tax free threshold when he ran. He's used the same ...
"Little signalled a major shift in direction if he won the leadership, including the likely ditching of unpopular policies such as raising the pension age. At a press conference today, the former union boss also signalled a rethink of a capital gains tax, ...
Because the author is a staffer of David Cunliffe and has been supportive of Little on other posts on here? Plus I don't see how this derails the post at all when the post explicitly mentions the NZLP.
I think it should be all about Labour, he's running for the Labour leadership. If Labour gets 40% in the next election it will certainly be the biggest party and will be in a position to form government even if it was a really bad night for the Greens(8%) ...
I'm sorry but you seem to have read something totally different to the responses Grant gave above. Robertson's doesn't say once that he thinks Labour can govern alone but notes that it should be a 40% party again which under an MMP electoral system by ...
"New Zealand’s public resoundingly opposed asset sales, and supported the Capital Gains Tax. We need a coalition primed for an uncompromising agenda push." So I am glad to hear you'll be ranking Little last then? Considering he wants to scrap CGT and NZ ...
Which I think is a good idea. Labour needs to sort what it stands for not be defined by it's coalition partners.
It's just a question of semantics I suppose but personally I dislike the use of people as it is not inclusive of the whole. National's policies are good for people for instance, a group of people do very well from their policies but not New Zealanders as a...
"And then, finally, I’m also curious to see if the penny ever drops in the Labour Party ‘collective mindset’ that not all people living here and voting in elections are New Zealanders." They're all New Zealand residents at least and quite frankly I much ...
Yup you got me! Even orchestrated the whole thing and supported Cunliffe last time all in preparation for this moment!
That's exactly the half-truths and vitriol I'm talking about. If you honestly believe Robertson was the sole person who made the decision for Goff to not appear on billboards for the purpose of Labour doing badly and eventually obtaining the leadership ...
What I care about is fighting for the Labour Party. I've certainly defended and fought for Grant on here but I'm not willing to do it by smearing Little; a possible future leader of the party. To do otherwise isn't about being emotional it's about ...
Reading through these comments, I can't help but notice that a section of former Cunliffe/Little supporters, seem to want to throw anyone under the bus who doesn't agree with them. Ostracizing a pretty successful former deputy leader and finance minister ...
What hard evidence do you have to suggest:. So, if those final 4 days of the 12-25 August Roy Morgan (ie the final quarter of the polling period after Shearer’s resignation) had any effect, it was almost certainly to boost Labour support? None, it's pure ...
I very much doubt that Shearer's resignation before any leader increased Labour's support in fact that poll was partially taken AFTER Shearer resigned. I think it's just as likely it would lead to a decrease in Labour's support in that final section of ...
I was actually in the UCSA at the time. Yes, it wasn't the easiest process around to opt out of but the UCSA doesn't collect any of its funds directly from the student body. That's done via the student levy which was levied regardless of your membership. ...
Totally agree which is why Little's supporters notion that he is somehow on the left of the party because Cunliffe supports him is ludicrous.
And Jim Boldger did well in the last Labour government, does that make him a socialist?
Where are you getting those figures from? The two polls released in August before Shearer resigned had Labour on 34(Roy Morgan) and 32%(Fairfax) for an average of 33%. But the point is moot. If Cunliffe had got even the lowest poll result Shearer ever got ...
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