Totally agree the loss of Shaw, Golriz and Collins is a huge blow to the Greens. A coleadership ticket of Shaw and Swarbrick would have been powerful. I didn't always agree with Golriz but when it came foreign policy she was easily one of if not the best ...
Gosh Bishop is a tosser, like father like son I guess.... "I will never be coming back to this Cafe again"... Ugh... I totally agree with Shaws findings. I will however remind everyone on the left that we totally underestimated John Key and from 06-16 said...
Nancy Pelosi being a deranged vicious thug calling Palestine supporters paid Russian agents and demanding the Fbi investigate the Guardian article for reference. Ever since the democrats lost 2016 the media and public have allowed with no push back for the...
Agreed! Absolutely shocking that the rich oil nations are not funding unrwa or stepping into fill the gap.
As a reluctant Green voter, this is a bummer James was a good bloke and one of the more likable figures In NZ politics and people accross the political spectrum like him. He's a huge loss to the party, whether they admit it or not. If it wasn't for him I ...
Forget smoking, the biggest drain on our health service is not smokers it's people who eat their weight in sugar and lard and pay no sin taxes. If Labours anti smoking crusade is just about health and health costs and not telling people what to do then ...
In 2023 I went to a democratic party hall function and an Nz Labour party hall function. The functions were almost identical, both rooms were 80% upper middle class white people moaning about how guilty they felt about being white while scoffing at the ...
With the caucus and leadership they currently have the less the public see of them them the better. When 23% of the country didn't vote and you win 13 seats less than cunliffe, getting the worst result for the party in a century. You're a large minor party...
Trumps approval ratings are higher than Bidens The democrats won't be able to blame white people or old people for Trump winning on these numbers, only themselves. The irony of attacking and gleefully waving goodbye to working class voters in favor of some...
If you don't like this then don't look at the federal election polls. Bidens losing in all but one swing state. Trump beats Biden with Latinos and voters under 30. Bidens lead with African American voters has dissolved by 20% as black voters frustrated ...
The Justice portfolio is the NZ politics equivalent of teaching defense against the dark arts at Hogwarts. I wish her well and think there needs to be more mental health awareness in parliament, I think maybe all mp's should have regular counselling ...
There's no what if's, Trump WILL win this year. Trump wont just win, he'll win the popular vote this time if Bidens on the ticket the democrats are going to be obliterated Biden is lowest polling first term president in history. Trump beats Biden with ...
The thing is most Americans don't want their government funding Ukraines or Israels military. Poor, young, working class, black and latino voters are particularly against money going out of their country while their public services and social safety nets ...
Im glad you wrote this post. The story has given me mixed emotions (humour, anger, sad, concern) While I'm firmly in the innocent until proven guilty camp, it's hard to say that about Golriz when her and members of the Green party have partaken gleefully ...
Innocent until proven guilty but if found guilty I hope she gets a conviction and that its the end of her career. I'm bloody sick of politicians running around acting like the rules don't apply to them, the behaviour of MPs in the last year has been ...
So what? Plenty of left wing orgs, mps and activists share buildings with or rent from right wing outlets. Activists who don't like the Lgb alliance aren't going to win people over by attacking them. As a gay man, there is a large and ever increasing ...
I'm not sure what the story is here? The policies listed as shared goals between the government and Atlas are just bog standard base center right neoliberal policies that every center party around the world has believed in since the 80s. Bolger, Shipley ...
I totally agree. She definitely had the x factor and I remember going to see her speak during the 2017 and being utterly impressed with her, and stunned by the throngs of supporters she had following her, which only a few months earlier at a smaller venue ...
If the left actually for one millisecond believed that the vast majority of nz supported the Maori translation the left wouldnt be frightened or outraged about a Referendum on the treaty of waitangi. Now as a gay man from a mixed race Ngati Mutunga family,...
Immigration is way too high, we're looking at a Dunedin arriving every year now, and these people are working in supermarkets not as nurses or builders. you're now seeing 200+ people show up to look at rental viewings of $550 rents for 2 bedroom hovels in ...
It's not about the policy it's about the lying about consultation and advice. Dyed in the wool Leftys may not have liked her but a lot of people in the civil service, media and public liked her, as much as they like Chloe Swarbrick, shocking but yes she is...
I am dumbfounded at labour's Shadow cabinet announced today. You'd think since Labour only holds 17 electorates, all 17 successful electorate mps would be in shadow cabinet, nope, insetead FIFTEEN are List mps, most who lost safe seats and should have ...
Labour does have an ideology it's called managerialism. Managing the neoliberal economic consensus, throwing a few economic scraps to the peasentary so they don't revolt, while passing revolutionary social policy and legislating against behaviors they ...
No, most people hate intersectional theories of social justice. People vote for left wing parties for wages, houses, poverty and to reign in capitalism. But everytime we vote for the left instead of getting any of that we get a bunch of power mad green ...
Hell yeah. Victory to the vapers. Labour were absolutely nanny state busy bodies on vaping, the week after they changed vaping laws they put us in that final months long lock down and it was impossible to get juice. Shocking Labour never banned disposables...
It's terrifying and happened in Sweeden and is due to happen in Germany where the AFD is polling more than their Labour, green, act coalition Combined. Not working with these parties isn't sustainable in the long term because they keep growing. It's deeply...
Doubtful as gen z seems to be the opposite of gen y and lean more libertarian. If anything politics is becoming for all generations, male vs female. The left globally have absolutely lost the ability to speak to male voters, but the right still gets enough...
You'd think the media which is deeply incompetent, would have done this research two years ago and leading up to the election not after it... Good grief. Luxon barely understands how question time works or parliamentary process it's actually quite ...
No, Luxon will slavishly follow China, it's mps routinely worship China and It's mp's are pro China on everything from military build up in the pacific to disturbingly, China's position on Taiwan both of which are far more relevant to this country. Jacinda...
To be fair that's pretty much true every of every Labour party including pre MMP NZLP. Labour parties only get elected when capitalism fails. Blair is the only UK Labour pm in history to serve two full terms and while it's been 26 years since he was ...
Winston has more power than people realize. While there's no chance of a Labour coalition, the make up of parliament is 60 seats right block, 55 seats left block. With nzf's 8 seats it could always choose to sit in the cross bench and force a national ...
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