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Twelve long months

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:03 am, September 20th, 2015 - 103 comments

Twelve months on from the last election and that brighter future we were promised has not happened.

The Nation: On Paddy Gower being impatient

Written By: lprent - Date published: 3:36 pm, September 19th, 2015 - 59 comments

The Nation has been putting highlights up on Youtube. The one that caught my attention was Paddy Gower not listening, and redefining his question partway through. Eventually Andrew Little had to force the ever interrupting Paddy Gower to stop and listen to the answer.

Herald gets it wrong on flag referendum

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:16 am, September 18th, 2015 - 50 comments

The Herald editorial this morning suggests that Andrew Little is handling the flag referendum poorly but makes some stunningly simple mistakes that undermines its conclusions.

The Attack

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 9:04 am, September 15th, 2015 - 52 comments

And they’re off!

Making Like Private Frazer

Written By: Bill - Date published: 1:20 pm, September 14th, 2015 - 20 comments

Political awakenings.

Young on Little

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 11:14 am, September 14th, 2015 - 48 comments

While Labour leaders are in the spotlight, a good piece on Andrew Little by Audrey Young in the weekend.

Does the left win by tacking to the centre or by being principled?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 11:40 am, September 13th, 2015 - 162 comments

Jeremy Corbyn’s election provides a further opportunity to discuss if elections should be won by tacking to the centre or adopting a principled approach to politics.

Tim Barnett announces his resignation

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 2:49 pm, September 11th, 2015 - 7 comments

Labour Party General Secretary Tim Barnett has also announced his resignation today.

Andrew Little – Our values and interests on the world stage

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 2:50 pm, September 10th, 2015 - 54 comments

Text of a speech delivered today by Andrew Little to Whanganui Grey Power where he talks about New Zealand’s tradition of standing up for our values and interests on the world stage.

Labour plans emergency bill to increase refugee numbers

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 4:46 pm, September 4th, 2015 - 67 comments

Labour plans to seek leave to introduce an emergency bill into Parliament on Tuesday to increase the number of refugees the country can receive.

Greens’ climate discussion paper

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:03 am, September 4th, 2015 - 122 comments

The Greens are attempting something remarkable, a plan that is economically credible, but set in the context of realistic environmental constraints. Did they succeed?

Rob Salmond’s argument – too simplistic and wrong in its assumptions

Written By: Colonial Viper - Date published: 12:58 pm, August 23rd, 2015 - 140 comments

As Mike Smith’s post last night relates, Rob Salmond makes the case that a properly left wing Labour Party is always going to lose. Screw that. More like a Tory Labour doesn’t deserve to win.

MSD household incomes report

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 9:34 am, August 18th, 2015 - 7 comments

While we devote acres of pixels to flag distractions and “celebrity” nonsense, the health of the nation goes largely unremarked. Was there any MSM coverage of the latest Ministry of Social Development report – Household Incomes in New Zealand: trends in indicators of inequality and hardship 1982 to 2014?

Surprise – ordinary UK voters like Jeremy Corbyn too

Written By: Colonial Viper - Date published: 7:26 pm, August 16th, 2015 - 70 comments

According to a new poll, Corbyn appears very electable indeed, despite more squeeling from Tony Blair and the right wing establishment of UK Labour.

Win or Lose: This is Labour

Written By: Bill - Date published: 3:27 pm, August 7th, 2015 - 199 comments

Some people have suggested that the more progressive parliamentary elements of the left are done and dusted. I’m not so sure…

Guest post: The flag – a change is gonna come

Written By: Guest post - Date published: 8:30 am, August 4th, 2015 - 170 comments

A guest post by Enzo Giordani about why progressives should support a change in the flag and showing his proposal for a new flag.

Deborah McMillan’s story

Written By: Guest post - Date published: 7:30 am, August 3rd, 2015 - 36 comments

Deborah McMillan’s husband and Skyla McMillan’s dad Shane was killed in a workplace accident five years ago. They are part of a campaign to strengthen the currently weakened health and safety legislation.

A thinking opposition

Written By: Ben Clark - Date published: 7:36 am, August 1st, 2015 - 56 comments

So the news on Labour’s first paper from its “Future of Work” Commission revolves around “ex-Labour member” Phil Quin noticing some missing quote marks and National making gleeful diversions from it. But of course what is actually important is the content.

Whitewash

Written By: Bunji - Date published: 9:12 pm, July 31st, 2015 - 55 comments

Astonishing release late on a Friday afternoon (dump time!) that the police will not be pursuing any action against Slater/Ede for hacking Labour’s website. Given a whole year to investigate, they didn’t manage to find out how to spell Nicky Hager or Tim Barnett’s names.

We can do better on health and safety

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 9:53 am, July 30th, 2015 - 8 comments

Labour is proposing a set of amendments to fix the Health and Safety Reform Bill. They need the support of Peter Dunne and the Māori Party. Will they do the right thing?

left wing leadership candidate Jeremy Corbyn well ahead

Written By: Colonial Viper - Date published: 2:34 pm, July 29th, 2015 - 25 comments

Hard lefty Jeremy Corbyn has a 22 pt lead in the UK Labour leadership race. The Labour Party Blairites are definitely not happy.

What will National give away?

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 9:14 am, July 28th, 2015 - 108 comments

Labour has set out its bottom lines for supporting the TPP. My question to National and its supporters – which of Labour’s bottom lines are you prepared to give away, and why?

Update: We can cross off point 1, Key sells out Pharmac.

Internal polling apparently good

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 6:57 am, July 28th, 2015 - 233 comments

It’s not a good idea in general to comment on internal polling. But since they were discussed on other blogs yesterday – Labour’s current numbers are looking good.

3News Poll: National Lose Lead

Written By: te reo putake - Date published: 6:55 pm, July 26th, 2015 - 109 comments

The latest 3News/Reid Research poll continues the trend of bad results for National. On these numbers, National are knackered. And, surprise, surprise, Kiwis don’t want non-residents buying up our houses. Not a great way to finish a conference weekend, is it?

National’s week from hell

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:30 am, July 26th, 2015 - 43 comments

This was the week from hell for National when they experienced the Serco fiasco, news that they responded to a suggestion they close a failing Charter School by giving it more money, the Judicial spanking of their undermining of the Problem Gambling Foundation and the ruling that their legislation removing the rights of some prisoners to vote was a breach of the country’s human rights.