Putin wouldn't have invaded if Trump was still president Because Putin’s lap dog would have have handed Ukraine to him on a platter
No conservation portfolio, I bet all the mining companies that had their permits declined last term will be glad Sage is out
The Democrats in the U.S.A and Labour in the UK have fought harder against their own progressive voices in Sanders and Corbyn than they have against their conservative governments. Makes me feel ill
Fingers crossed that the cannabis referendum is close enough today to win outright or to flip on the specials
Of course the government can borrow more money. If you read the rest of my comment you'll realise I was also referring to the fact that Labour have also set themselves a low peak debt target - one that doesn't allow themselves to spend the kind of money ...
"Bringing New Zealander's along with us" sounds like double speak for delay delay delay. The WEAG's recommendations were forecast to add something in the range of $5b per year to welfare expenditure - but Labour have boxed themselves into a corner by ...
Give her Peter Dunne's old job - Associate Minster of Health responsible for drugs, mental health, and suicide prevention
Greg O'Connor was doing the same long before the election period began. Big vanity billboard at the bottom of the Ngauranga Gorge
I think that the Author may have been making the same mistake that those on the right have been doing in trying to attribute voters as solely belonging to a singular party. The swing voters that decided this election weren't National voters wanting to shut...
Especially if mining exploration permits can be granted against your wishes by the Labour ministers
I haven't heard any demands of cabinet posts. She was just on Nine-to-Noon and was very reasonable sounding about their expectations. She acknowledged that being tied in a formal coalition might not be the best for the Greens ability to criticize ...
Labour have always treated the Māori party poorly. "Last cab off the rank" etc It shows how little Labour have changed their approach to Māori since their Foreshore and Seabed Act days
I think we're in for a remarkable and pleasant surprise. Here's hoping. Jacinda would be wise to treat that relationship with respect. A lot of the Labour base like what the Green party bring to politics on the left. Hopefully they don't kowtow to the ...
The LP may think that to keep the converts in their fold,they won't want to be too progressive, i.e.keep the Greens at arms length. Hopefully they won't be that foolish. Those National voters who gave their vote to Labour will happily go back to voting ...
I think Labour is actually becoming a centrist party now, and they won't want to pass left-wing policy (which the Greens would require of them) that would scare off their new National converts – unlike 2002 this time they won a bunch of electorates and ...
The huge surge of early voting might have screwed them over by not capturing this increase in support
It won't negate the need for 14 day quarantine and day 3 and 12 testing, while creating headaches for kiwis in countries where test results can take over a week to come back, or where limited test stocks are reserved for symptomatic people only. So then ...
The whole ‘we need more time to campaign’ thing frm parties who haven’t bothered releasing meaningful policy 5 weeks before an election is taking me right back to high school w everyone begging teachers for extensions on assignments they haven’t startd ...
Yes we need to stand with Auckland But Goff is also an idiot. Money has never been cheaper to borrow, but Auckland Council still going ahead with austerity and job losses instead of revisiting their self-imposed debt cap
Had the usual Thursday dinner at the parents-in-law who are both big Judith fans and lifelong National voters, and even they were disappointed with the comments from the National leadership trying to undermine the health response, they even went so far as ...
The rest of the country is rooting for you Auckland. Stamp it out like we did last time
No thanks. Labour have made it clear they are targeting the centre this election, and I want a left wing party in government so I three ticks green for me The beauty of MMP and coalitions is I can give my party vote to the Greens, and still get PM Ardern ...
To be fair I never mentioned that Chloe could win, although there are a few out there that seem to think that is possible. But it seems unlikely given overall green support in that seat I just noticed a pattern of this author being almost resentful that ...
Yes, TRP seems to have a bit of an issue with Chloe running a campaign for the Auckland Central seat. It is only upsides for the greens if they can establish an electorate seat, so let it play out and the best candidate will win
They aren't wrong. I guess we'll see if Labour can be as transformational as promised in 2017 without the albatross of NZ First hanging around their neck next term (touch wood)
I know this is a Labour leaning blog, but I hope a lot of progressive voters look at where the Greens are sitting right now and decide to give them their party vote. Labour is doing amazingly well this term and rightly deserves the support they are getting...
Judith was planning to release them yesterday, but her sharpie ran out of ink
The interview they had on Newshub was hilarious and sad (at 1:49): Q: That's kind of your only line isn't it, that you can run the economy better? (Goldsmith enthusiastically agrees!) Poor guy is out of his depth
They're claiming that their polls have a 10% swing from Labour to National, so around 50% to 35% instead of 60% to 25%. Pretty dire if that's all they can claim
Thanks for the glowing endorsement Wayne Fortunately we are moving forward as a country and leaving warmongers like you in our past Judith attacking the "woke" actually reminds me of your role as "Political Correctness Eradicator", didn't work then and ...
Clickbait headline, don't give them what they want (your views)
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