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David Shearer’s first e-newsletter
Written By: - Date published: 11:24 am, August 11th, 2012 - 97 comments
David Shearer has decided to start emailing members every week.
Given the recent hubbub it might be worth reading.
Here’s the first issue, sent out yesterday.
Nats’ education plans make sense after all
Written By: - Date published: 9:16 am, August 11th, 2012 - 33 comments
How to explain National’s blatant inconsistency in not requiring national standards for charter schools? After further reflection, I think it makes sense after all…
Put away the knives, the polls are up!
Written By: - Date published: 9:59 pm, August 10th, 2012 - 144 comments
I suspect that the knives that were out for a couple days this week will be quietly slipped back into their sheaths now. Labour’s up in the latest Roy Morgan. So are the Greens. The Left’s at 46% vs the Banks Key Government’s 44.5%. We won’t see more hamfisted attempts to undermine Shearer and attack Cunliffe clearing the path for someone else. Well, not until the next bad poll.
3 News polls mums and dads
Written By: - Date published: 12:15 pm, August 10th, 2012 - 43 comments
Turns out that not many “mums and dads” are planning to buy shares in their own assets.
Why I’m In – a response to the disillusioned
Written By: - Date published: 7:39 am, August 10th, 2012 - 143 comments
A somewhat meandering and personal response to the disillusioned, prompted by Scott Yorke’s recent “Why I’m Out”.
Unemployment worse than it looks
Written By: - Date published: 3:30 pm, August 9th, 2012 - 67 comments
Unemployment is up, and the real situation is worse than the figures suggest. Just how many more years of the Nats’ economic “genius” do you want NZ?
Labour, WTF? – a collection of posts
Written By: - Date published: 9:18 am, August 9th, 2012 - 101 comments
We’ve received a set of guest posts arising from the Stab In the Back comments that Duncan Garner reported on Tuesday and Su’a William Sio. We’ll compile the best here. As always, we exercise judgement in not publishing truly nutty stuff but there’s no editorial line, no endorsement of guest posts we publish – they just have to pass the test of being informative, lucid, and left.
Too far
Written By: - Date published: 8:05 pm, August 7th, 2012 - 394 comments
It looks like someone from within Labour’s top team* has decided to have a real nasty go at David Cunliffe via Duncan Garner.
Nats don’t believe their own education policy
Written By: - Date published: 12:26 pm, August 7th, 2012 - 28 comments
As usual it is the kids who will suffer.
Postcards from the “brighter” future
Written By: - Date published: 9:36 am, August 6th, 2012 - 11 comments
Hey John – where’s our “Brighter Future”? Hey National voters – was this what you voted for?
Race-baiting works, a little
Written By: - Date published: 7:25 am, August 6th, 2012 - 163 comments
Meh. National has race-baited over water rights to win back some of its wavering lower-middle class Pakeha support. It’s won some of that support back. For now. The thing about turning tides is that not every wave, or even every set of waves for some time, reaches less far up the beach than the one lowest before. Within each cycle there are dips and spikes due to events. Doesn’t change the cycle.
ImperatorFish: Community Law Centres Under Threat
Written By: - Date published: 11:00 am, August 5th, 2012 - 8 comments
The Government has decided to change the way it funds Community Law Centres. It will save money – at the expense of justice for those who can’t afford lawyers.
The illusion of consultation
Written By: - Date published: 9:40 am, August 4th, 2012 - 22 comments
For some reason the Nats are in a hurry to complete their privatisation programme within two years. Anyone in any doubt as to how the process of consultation with Maori will play out might be informed by some recent history.
Incoherent education policy
Written By: - Date published: 8:22 am, August 3rd, 2012 - 215 comments
The right hand of National’s education policy doesn’t know what the far-right hand is up to…
The luxury of an ethical opposition
Written By: - Date published: 11:05 am, August 2nd, 2012 - 38 comments
Although Key’s privatisation programme has hit plenty of problems with Maori water rights, his job is made a whole lot easier by the luxury of an ethical main opposition party.
Why asset sales – it’s politics
Written By: - Date published: 5:06 pm, July 30th, 2012 - 20 comments
Finally the truth is out. Gaynor and Armstrong agree – National Party politics are the real reason for asset sales. They make no sense economically. They are not about debt reduction. Key’s asset sales are a political bribe – nothing more and nothing less.
A good week for the opposition
Written By: - Date published: 10:20 am, July 27th, 2012 - 52 comments
3 opposition private members’ Bills passed – extended paid parental leave, Mondayisation, and lobbying disclosure – on Wednesday (moving a ban on land sales to foreigners up the list). Then, all 5 drawn from the ballot on Thursday opposition bills too: marriage equality, $15hr minimum wage, super-majority/referendum protection for asset sales, charging government agencies that pay access to info, and controlling water pollution.
Nasty govt cont…
Written By: - Date published: 2:29 pm, July 26th, 2012 - 22 comments
Eddie got there before me, but yesterday seemed to be a day of nasty attacks, not just by Maggie Barry.
Truck strike imminent!!!
Written By: - Date published: 1:58 pm, July 26th, 2012 - 38 comments
Remember all the fuss in 2008 when the Labour government tried to make a 1% increase charges affecting truckies? What kind of catastrophic response will increases of up to 20% provoke?
The nasty government
Written By: - Date published: 12:07 pm, July 26th, 2012 - 22 comments
National is threatening to veto a Labour bill to extend paid parental leave, claiming it costs too much. At the same time, they’re trying to defend writing a blank cheque for looters’ bonuses. And they’re getting nasty about it. Maggie Barry attacked Jacinda Ardern for not having children yet while John Key had a hissy fit at anyone who questioned his looters’ bonuses.
Austerity in Britain
Written By: - Date published: 10:59 am, July 26th, 2012 - 45 comments
Gosh, isn’t government austerity working well in Britain. Thank goodness we’re following in their footsteps.
Infographics
Written By: - Date published: 2:09 pm, July 25th, 2012 - 28 comments
Labour and the Greens are producing great infographics that succiently explain what the government’s doing wrong on issues of the day and bust National’s myths. They chuck them up on Facebook and Twitter and they spread like wildfire. They’re a really effective use of social media. You can help by liking the parties’ Facebook pages and sharing the infographics.
Member’s Day
Written By: - Date published: 8:21 am, July 25th, 2012 - 19 comments
2 great Member’s Bills are before the House today. National oppose both the Mondayising of Holidays and Paid Parental Leave, but they should have the numbers to get through their first readings.
Milk it, dig it, drill it, sell it – for a brighter future?
Written By: - Date published: 4:54 pm, July 24th, 2012 - 21 comments
National’s internal polling is telling it people are serious about how it plans to get to the birghter future. So Joyce was wheeled out at the weekend to sell the same old story – more cows, more coal, more oil; and asset sales so we can afford schools and hospitals once at least. He also attacked Labour/Greens – maybe their polls are telling them people aren’t buying.
Protests then and now
Written By: - Date published: 9:02 am, July 24th, 2012 - 19 comments
Looks like we should conclude that opposition to National in 2012 is much stronger and more vociferous than opposition to Labour in 2008.
ImperatorFish: Whose Planet Is This?
Written By: - Date published: 3:35 pm, July 23rd, 2012 - 17 comments
Imagine a place with a stagnant economy; led by a government that is anti-growth, doesn’t have any plan, and is not prepared to make the tough decisions needed to ensure the future prosperity of its people; where most people struggle to get ahead; and where those who aspire for better things are probably thinking of leaving.
Everyone hears what they want to hear
Written By: - Date published: 9:41 am, July 23rd, 2012 - 7 comments
Key has been giving different messages on the water rights issue to the Maori Party and to the wider public. No one knows what, if anything, his “promises” mean. Why isn’t the Maori Party (which has been burned before) seeking urgent clarification?
What the polls actually show
Written By: - Date published: 9:10 am, July 23rd, 2012 - 21 comments
‘National’s made a complete cock-up of this and everyone’s pissed, but it doesn’t seem to be hurting them in the polls, where they’re still strong’. You can find that stereotype sentence in the media all the time, particularly in the coverage of the weekend’s National Party conference. But it might be time to do some fact-checking, because they are being hurt in the polls.
National’s new strategy
Written By: - Date published: 2:56 pm, July 22nd, 2012 - 57 comments
National have decided to lower the tone and just attack attack attack Labour and the Greens. They know they’re going down, and they’re trying to take the left down with them. It’s nasty, it’s negative and it will do our whole political system no good.
Nat conference protests
Written By: - Date published: 9:57 am, July 21st, 2012 - 58 comments
This weekend the National Party is holding its annual conference at SkyCity (how appropriate) in Auckland. Protests are planned. Be careful, keep it peaceful.
An Auckland view on Labour’s changes
Written By: - Date published: 8:46 am, July 20th, 2012 - 75 comments
Here’s a guest post from an Auckland Labour Party member with a different take on the constitutional changes. It’s interesting and challenging. Good food for thought. – Let us consider Labour’s proposed constitutional reforms in its moment. New Zealand’s progressives continue to splinter, just as conservative variation contracts. As the progressives splinter, they are also […]
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