Beware of simplistic responses to this. There is a depth of work that most don't see : eg Craig Renney, CTU economist has been getting headlines for months on end with his expert and sensible analysis. Fundamentally, the CTU is the sum of its affiliates ...
Thanks Micky. Done.
Karma. She was vicious and nasty with Clare Curran, whose stuff up was having a coffee with Carol Hirschfield and not putting it in her ministerial diary. Clare was bullied to the point where she lost confidence speaking in the House. Then to cap it all, ...
bit late commenting here ; I agree on the surface Keir Starmer's language feels very National lite. But delve a bit deeper into their policy please : eg this "New Deal for working people". Looks pretty good to me. https://labour.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/...
Minimum wage etc always sounds good, but you do know it means only the well off could ever become MPs? If you want the rich dominating, that's the way to go about it. And perhaps you don't realise, but Parliamentary Services includes cleaners who get the ...
Intellectual snobbery? Then you get "Labour didn't explain it well enough". I hope you are taking your point to the policy discussions going on. If you can three dot points out of members having a say, well done.
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Yes but we also need to look at who is already coming through and celebrate that despite Labour's smash defeat, we have MPs like Barb Edmonds, Aeysha Verrall, Camilla Belich, Willow-Jean Prime, to mention just a few of the smart younger women, in ...
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It was on your whoar blog during q time when as a backbencher, I asked a question. I got enough shite to last me a lifetime from Whaleoil et al who loved critiquing my appearance. These things stick. So thank you for the apology. It means a lot.
This is not a neoliberal doctrine. It is an old saying from Labour and is even implicit in the song Solidarity. Obama also said it as did Martin Luther-King. Work includes those who work for our families, who volunteer in the local community, who help feed...
I think there have been other "apologies" from Labour about the 1980s. I hated it too. and I have a very long memory. But neo-liberalism is a world wide thing, invented in the 1970s. Tell me one country that hasn't embraced the global free market, or one ...
Are you the same Phillip Ure who said I needed a makeover when I was in Parliament?
What an intelligent comment,
Geez don't some people read? This was a powerful speech and significant in many ways, especially in signalling a big shift in the thing many people here grizzle about ; neo liberal economics. Quotes : "We will remember with pride the early steps that ...
Labour never kowtowed to him. We needed his votes to govern. Alternative was opposition. He was a disastrous "handbrake" on many things Labour wanted to do, but at least we made progress.
Fair Pay Agreements for one.
In the first open leadership election, some people did indeed say "NZ is not ready for a gay PM", but they were also citing what they were hearing around them. I heard it from a few blue collar members of Labour affiliated unions and some Pasifika members ...
FFS this man is Deputy Prime Minister and our Foreign Minister. He is a member of Cabinet in this awful government, yet apparently he can keep on spouting NZF crap in his "State of the Nation". I always thought there was collective responsibility in ...
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You are mixed up. Pam's account was in the House where the Speaker presides. This was in Select Committee where the governing party has a majority. They stuffed up. Labour opposes the Bill. Simple.
Thank you Weka.
At no point have I said punching a woman in the face is acceptable - in any context. It is not. But I do think PP brought violence with her along with her right wing views which are well known and provocative. I also think it's relevant that the Destiny ...
I am still waiting for the prosecution of the Destiny mob motorcyclist who hit Marama Davidson.
I probably did read these, but I don't need your snarky comment about losing my memory as "we" get older. He must be a mate of yours.
Just in time along comes Bryce Edwards to tell Labour people like me how hopeless we are. Quoting Hooton, Andrea Vance, and even (ffs) HDPA. I cannot recall this academic ever writing anything about Nats, ACT or NZ First. https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/...
Actually delete that. Labour got 32 MPs under Cunliffe - less than now. The Greens did rather well, Sometimes it pays to fact check your statements Corey (and me).
It's difficult to have "renewal" when Labour only has two new MPs. Cunliffe got the worst percentage result in decades. Labour got more MPs because the Greens had a terrible result in 2014 too - and the Maori Party had disgraced itself. As for electorate ...
Oh ffs; there's always one. Mean-spirited.
It was not a good poll for the right. ACT has dropped ; National can barely hold its election night vote and NZ First is still Mr 6%. The preferred PM poll always bounces around depending who is PM. Luxon on 25% as a new PM is pretty dismal, given he is ...
I agree Chris Trotter is a good writer. He can also do a good rendition of solidarity songs. But I admit I am completely bewildered by the turn he has taken. Maybe it was teaming up with the Free Speech "Union" in good company like Jordan Williams, Stephen...
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