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Labour – a rock and a hard place

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:50 am, September 29th, 2014 - 93 comments

Labour is being criticised for leadership divisions. If the party had not examined its leadership it would be being criticised for ignoring the message of the voters. So never mind the media frenzy, concentrate on running (like last time) a positive and constructive selection process and review.

Robertson announces that he is standing for leader

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 9:05 am, September 28th, 2014 - 193 comments

Grant Robertson is the second Labour MP to announce that he wishes to seek the party’s leadership.

David Clark on Dunedin North

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 9:01 am, September 28th, 2014 - 44 comments

MP for Dunedin North David Clark has been reflecting on the very successful result in the electorate.

Labour has a leadership contest

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 3:58 pm, September 27th, 2014 - 196 comments

David Cunliffe has announced that he has resigned as leader of the Labour Party but will stand again to seek a mandate for change.

Cunliffe’s statement

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 1:12 pm, September 27th, 2014 - 280 comments

Labour’s Council is currently meeting. David Cunliffe is expected to make a statement today at 2:30. It will be covered live by RNZ, 3 News and other outlets. Update: David Cunliffe has announced his resignation from the leader’s position but will contest the vacant leadership. Get ready for a leadership contest …

Local Bodies: Greens Immediately Become the Opposition.

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:16 am, September 27th, 2014 - 63 comments

bspout at Local Bodies was well up on the Greens list, but as the Greens only got 10%, he didn’t get into parliament. But as he says, with Labour navel gazing and NZ First lacking experience, the greens are currently the only effective opposition at present.

I disagree

Written By: Ben Clark - Date published: 1:53 pm, September 26th, 2014 - 112 comments

With Lynn, which according to the trolls should see me banned 😈

I think the Labour results show voters understand MMP, not that Labour doesn’t.

Labour obviously never worked out MMP

Written By: lprent - Date published: 8:59 am, September 26th, 2014 - 104 comments

Perhaps it is time for activists to have two parties. The one that specialises in electorates and the one that focuses on party vote. Because it is becoming evident that Labour is unlikely to ever manage to make the transition to being a MMP party. Their MPs clearly don’t care for the party or the brand.

The last five days

Written By: Guest post - Date published: 5:53 pm, September 25th, 2014 - 63 comments

An accident… Then an odd thing starts to happen. Instead of helping the survivors and securing the scene, the rescue crew start fighting amongst themselves. How did the crash happen? Was it was the driver’s fault? What was the main cause of the accident?

Labour’s Choice

Written By: KJT - Date published: 2:48 pm, September 24th, 2014 - 140 comments

Labours choice.

Some brief musings on unity

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 11:21 am, September 24th, 2014 - 287 comments

It’s up to all of us.

The Election That Left One Third of Us Behind

Written By: Bryan Gould - Date published: 5:32 pm, September 23rd, 2014 - 171 comments

No one should begrudge John Key and the National party the right to celebrate an impressive election victory. It is little consolation to those who opposed them that the win is very much a personal triumph for the Prime Minister rather than for the party and government he leads. As the tumult and the shouting […]

Where’s the Whip?

Written By: Bunji - Date published: 1:23 pm, September 23rd, 2014 - 146 comments

Our Labour MPs seem to be in disarray. Somehow the party that teaches solidarity keeps on being fractured, while the party that teaches individualism is a strong union.

Why are they talking to each other through the media instead of picking up the phone?

Labour’s leadership

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:24 am, September 23rd, 2014 - 216 comments

David Cunliffe has just announced that he will seek to continue as leader of the Labour Party and will let the party decide. A contest for the leadership is almost inevitable.

Our children in Wellington

Written By: lprent - Date published: 9:06 am, September 23rd, 2014 - 282 comments

I’m pretty sure that David Cunliffe would win a members and affiliates vote. So suck it up MPs, stop playing your silly caucus games and do some frigging work this term rather than the self-indulgent posturing you wasted time with last term. We have to start building campaigning machinery as soon as possible. You are getting in the way.

NRT: MMP, electorates, and misaligned incentives

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 3:18 pm, September 22nd, 2014 - 165 comments

No Right Turn points out the underlying truth of voting in an MMP environment. For the party electorate seats don’t matter much. Running electorate only campaigns are not productive. He is wrong in ascribing them no value. They provide a base for campaigning.

Lessons

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 7:02 am, September 22nd, 2014 - 482 comments

Greetings from the sanity of Dunedin North. Every pundit and their dog is opining on the lessons of Saturday, so I might as well have a go too.

Looking Ahead

Written By: Bryan Gould - Date published: 12:26 pm, September 21st, 2014 - 145 comments

Win or lose, there are never any final battles in politics. A defeat simply means the firing of the starting gun for the next round in a never-ending struggle. And, especially for the left, it is the struggle that matters. Without that struggle and the effort that has gone into it, the values of fairness, […]

Three more years

Written By: Stephanie Rodgers - Date published: 9:00 am, September 21st, 2014 - 141 comments

This election result is not the end of the world for me – because I am very, very lucky.

Next time …

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:59 am, September 21st, 2014 - 174 comments

National has an outright majority and the left has gone backwards. Some thoughts on what may have happened.

From Moira

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:03 pm, September 20th, 2014 - 4 comments

Moira Coatsworth, Labour Party President, sent this notice out to the members, supporters and volunteers.

The tweets are alive….

Written By: karol - Date published: 9:48 am, September 19th, 2014 - 5 comments

… with pre-election day fervour. It’s an election that’s going down to the wire. The energy is there for the left to keep talking to people, and to encourage as many as possible to get out and vote. It’s Suffrage Day – reporting via the telegraph in 1893 to the internet today. On-going updates

Three final polls

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:15 am, September 19th, 2014 - 98 comments

Three last polls and National’s support is declining, Labour’s improving and the Greens are stable. Things are getting very close with Winston Peters looking more and more likely to hold the balance of power. This election will be decided vote by vote.

Shout out to The Standard

Written By: lprent - Date published: 6:50 pm, September 18th, 2014 - 61 comments

A special call to work from David Cunliffe. http://youtu.be/0UK8ZPtjaxo If you don’t already have an date with a political party of the left on Saturday, then the best thing you can do is to Firstly vote left (and maybe Labour). Find a party that can employ you constructively on Saturday on turning out the vote. […]

Stability vs Change

Written By: Anthony R0bins - Date published: 8:22 am, September 18th, 2014 - 79 comments

This election there are two very different visions of the future on offer. I know which I prefer.

Leader’s debate IV

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:34 pm, September 17th, 2014 - 155 comments

The fourth and final leaders debate has now finished. John Key will be pleased at his decision to limit it to 30 minutes.

NZ Inc: Frightening the invisible horses of the market

Written By: Stephanie Rodgers - Date published: 12:15 pm, September 16th, 2014 - 15 comments

The Herald is scathing of Labour’s NZ Inc policy, which defies all logic and reason by assuming that there are better ways to build our economy than flogging off profitable assets, built by New Zealanders, to foreign investors.

Blue on the polls

Written By: Guest post - Date published: 12:04 pm, September 14th, 2014 - 62 comments

Landline polls are a traditional gripe for lefties. But this election polls look seriously out of whack with reality. Is National at 55%, 50%, 48% or 46%? But it’s always far too large for a party at National’s current stage in the political cycle. Just unbelievable and highly unlikely.