Hilariously wrong.
Some clues here: www.labour.org.nz/100days
*cul de sac
The only scale that makes sense is the current NZ political spectrum. Labour is clearly to the left of centre. Even in terms of that graph, the Labour Party is to the left of NZ First in economic terms. It's utterly bizarre and shows why so many on the ...
Stupid graph. If you think Labour is on the right you're beyond help.
She collapsed the Green vote - they were nearly out of Parliament. This will go down as one of the most disastrous political stuff ups in New Zealand electoral history.
I think in future Labour will just support free trade agreements if they are politically smart. They got hammered by business for voting against the TPPA and for their policy to oppose it, and got picked to pieces by the left anyway. If the left are going ...
He's also wrong. He doesn't understand the line in Labour's budget that says unallocated money is the money that later gets allocated to pay rises etc.
This is such utter bullshit. Labour voted against the TPPA.
No one believes National are going to secretly sell assets. They signposted it clearly before an election in 2011. The public trust them on this.
She assassinated herself. It's bloody tragic, but it is what it is.
I think you misunderstand the policy. You should talk to the CTU, who endorsed it heartily and whose own policy it is very similar to. This goes well beyond the ERA. I suspect you are blinded by hate of Labour.
CTU strongly endorsed Labour's employment relations policy. It'll be the boldest progressive change in employment law since Michael Joseph Savage. But I take it he was too neoliberal for you too Bill.
Good stuff on building affordable houses and cracking down on speculators too. www.labour.org.nz/housing
The World Socialist Web Site are an extreme communist group who condemn every left party in the world and every trade union as a right-wing front. They are not to be taken seriously. Jacinda worked as an economic adviser, not on wars or anything else.
So the two polls today show the Greens have simply taken a few votes off Labour and sent a bunch of Labour votes to NZ First. I don't see how that helps grow the centre-left vote and change the government. Quite the opposite in fact.
The UMR and Newshub polls just show that the Greens have siphoned off a bit of Labour's left flank and sent a bunch of Labour votes to NZ First. They haven't grown the centre-left vote, they've actually shrunk it because most people hate benefit fraud.
$17 billion more for social services paid for by cancelling National's tax cuts and hitting multinational corporations and speculators sounds pretty good to me.
Yes there's a minority of the electorate who want a sharp break to the left. It does not seem obvious to me that the people voting National who need to go across to the other side of the aisle for a progressive electoral majority are doing so because ...
What are you talking about? Labour's policies are all on their website.
Yes. That is exactly what today's $17 billion social spending boost shows.
Labour's families package gives money directly to beneficiaries - Family tax credit - Winter Energy Payment - Best Start payment for kids 0-3. Plus there's a sh*t ton being done on housing and health and education too.
Those figures don't include what people get from Labour's package. Patrick Gower is being misleading. 70% of families are better off under Labour's families policy.
Yeah, you are. He's saving $1.5 billion as a result of cancelling National's tax cuts. Best Start overwhelmingly benefits people on low to middle incomes. If you think a universal social programme is equivalent to a tax cut favouring the rich, you've got a...
What would you do?
Reality is only a party vote for Labour, helping them poll around 34% or higher will change the government. Any other scenario is National + NZ First. You may not like it, but it is what it is.
Also real per capita doesn't take into full account the cost pressures. For example, in health the biggest driver is the ageing population, which isn't accounted for here.
You ask "Why doesn’t NZ Labour’s immigration policy state an intention to identify and shut down courses that are an exploitative sham?" It does. That's exactly what the policy is. You ask "And why doesn’t NZ Labour’s immigration policy even so much as ...
See my comment above.
The RSE is an aid scheme with the Pacific. Without it some island economies would collapse. To remove it without a substitute would be a humanitarian disaster. As for the scheme itself, get your facts right. They're not used for construction or other jobs ...
Talk to anyone who was involved in Labour during the Cunliffe leadership. Most of what you said matches the narrative of his leadership campaign, but sadly doesn't match the reality of his actual leadership.
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