What on earth is golriz playing at breaking the c&s agreement with Labour?
Media organisations stopped reporting Roy Morgan some months ago. It's notoriously unreliable and out of whack with all other polls.
Unbelievable stupidity. That was a self-selecting online poll.
Amazed anyone still takes the Roy Morgan seriously. It's the least credible of polls, to the point that media hardly even cover it these days.
Metiria collapsed her party's vote, nearly collapsed the Labour Party and reminded everyone with an anti-beneficiary prejudice of all the reasons why they held that prejudice in the first place. This is politics as self-indulgence, not the politics of ...
This is jump the shark stuff. I feel for Metiria, but when she has her own MPs resigning in protest at her leadership just seven weeks out from a general election she is in no place to be PM. It's a sad, sorry debacle but it's no way forward for a left ...
You've read it wrong Bill
I assume you've missed Labour's recent employment relations policy, the boldest since Kirk.
Aren't they going to reduce immigration to 40k according to their policy?
That's not what the CTU and every other union are saying. Can't imagine any vaguely any other social democratic government introducing anything bolder. Looks to me like it's to the left of Corbyn.
Read the policy man. It's the boldest reform in employment relations since the ECA. Clark would never touch industry agreements. Labour has embraced them.
And Lester?
That's would be why Little is publicly backing the bus drivers?
Interesting you didn't know about Labour's plan to double the refugee quota. Clearly you hadn't even read the policy before calling Labour racists. Shame on you.
Labour and the Greens regularly exceed 40-odd percent in public polls. It's utterly unremarkable in that regard.
I agree entirely. Great campaign worth celebrating, props to Corbyn for what he pulled Labour back from. But they didn't win. I think we should remember that when doling out the reckons about what it means for New Zealand.
Respect due to Corbyn's campaign, and to Bernie's, but let's be clear that neither of them have actually won elections. The Republicans still rule in the US, and the Conservatives with the DUP in the UK.
Missed this - did Labour win the election? By how many seats?
The Greens' decision to vote for the Budget tax cuts was a disaster for the left and there's no spinning it. It doesn't matter what the facts are, the media thinks the left look shambolic and unready to govern, and Labour's principled opposition to tax ...
Unless, Weka, you think the Budget as a whole was a good thing for most New Zealanders?
Everyone gets that the Greens are not beholden to Labour. The question was about the political smarts of doing this four months out from the election. As for the principle: Where's the compassion in voting for tax cuts that by the Greens' own admission are...
If the bill had included tax cuts of $100 a week paid for by even more savage cuts to health and education would the Greens have supported it? By your logic they would have.
I don't think you know what a pilot is.
"No wrong has ever been righted, no child has ever been protected and no conflict has ever been solved by launching missiles." That's how we defeated Hitler, liberated Europe and dismantled the death camps of the holocaust. Not saying I agree with Trump (I...
Running surpluses across an economic cycle is not austerity, it is Keynesianism. Note the words economic cycle. Similarly, paying down debt st a time of economic growth is sensible Keynesianism. The economic illiteracy of some of my comrades is deeply ...
Yes you're right. Elections are won by gilding an electoral coalition that makes a majority of voters. You simply cannot win without pulling voters off National. Anything else is wishful thinking.
Interesting comments by Peeni Henare: -- Peeni Henare, who holds Tāmaki Makaurau for Labour, questioned what the Māori Party was talking about. He said "using kaupapa Māori as the bargaining chip for negotiations with a government then end up compromising ...
There's a difference between supporting a change and making it a campaign priority. I'd argue the best course for the left is for Labour to be committed to better welfare policies (which it is) and not focus its election campaign communications on policies...
Here's the Standard's report on the Dunedin meeting https://www.google.co.nz/amp/s/thestandard.org.nz/andrew-little-well-received-in-dunedin/amp/?client=safari
Andrew Little has done a whole series of public meetings. I went to one in Dunedin when I was down there a couple of weeks ago. There were 400 people there, biggest political meeting there in living memory. A quick google reveals another meeting in ...
Check out his state of the nation speech that is referenced in this article.
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