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The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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Good one Jacinda:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12264120
I wonder if The New Zealand Labour Party will follow the example of their comrades in Tasmania?
They have apparently come to their senses about trying to go into Government with a Green Party. In future they say they won't. This is a Roy Morgan summary of a story in the Australian newspaper this morning. The Australian story is behind a paywall, I believe so I can't provide a link to the original story I'm afraid. According to Morgan it is here.
"The Australian – Page 4 : 2 September 2019
Original article by Matthew Denholm"
"Roy Morgan Summary
Tasmanian Labor leader Rebecca White says the party will not share power with the Greens in the future. White has told Labor's state conference that past alliances with the Greens were a "mistake", while she claims that the Greens talk down to anyone who disagrees with their views. White says the results of the most recent federal and Tasmanian elections show that Labor needs to reconnect with its traditional voters. With the next Tasmanian election due by March 2022, White says Labor will concentrate on policies to boost jobs and to restore health and other services"
Oh that Labour here would follow their example.
Looks like another wait in the cold for Labor then.
They should learn from us.
By having 'past alliances' with the Greens to regret? Bring it on.
You know not what you say.
Labour here will be in that situation when they are booted out of the Beehive in September next year. That will be the cause of their regret about having shared some of the spoils of office with the Greens. Another one term Labour Government.
On the other hand they will be able to word their reasoning for not sharing power with the Greens in the future a bit differently. They will simply be able to say that there are no Green MPs any more.
The media campaign for more spending on cancer treatment and related Pharmac funding is indicative of the middle class centric of the MSM bubble. A bit like Naitonal's extra funding for older age middle class needs hip and knee ops.
Not so much on diabetes and kidney dyalisis – as they are more underclass health needs.
Now Duncan Garner wants a doubling of Pharmac spending to match Oz – when will he argue for doctors and nurses to have the wage rates and working (staffing levels) conditions of those in Oz? Or sufficient social housing … Or the Oz pay and working conditions for our teachers … .
It's interesting where the middle class places its priority for NZ matching first world standards and those privileged with jobs they can do over age 65 also getting super – so the government remains short of money. And yeah the middle class after getting the spending it wants also wants a tax cut.
Behind a gate and giving the finger to those outside.
Oops, the mask slipped…
https://twitter.com/ashtonpittman/status/1168253908617183232
People saying that and putting Christian into the sentence should be taken to Court for slander of the religion, its intentions and its beliefs.
Who's got a tl;dr for what's happening with Brexit today. Is the UK about to have an election?
snafu
https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1168425905406074880
#Brexitshambles
Don't the polls have a left block ahead of the right? So either the Tories' internal polling shows them they've a good chance of winning, or Johnson would rather risk losing the election than letting Brexit fail?
Johnson will have his tail up.
The latest YouGov polling results will have been warmly received in Downing Street. Not because the Conservatives are polling particularly well – in fact, if they were to finish an election on their current 34% it would be one of their worst results since the second world war – but because they are 12 points clear of Labour.
The main reason for the Conservative lead is that the leave vote is fairly united, while the remain vote is deeply divided. The majority (53%) of leave voters say they will vote for the Conservatives, while the remain vote is split between the Liberal Democrats (32%), Labour (32%) and the Greens (12%). And the first-past-the-post electoral system punishes division. While the Conservatives face losing a handful of seats to the Lib Dems in the south and the SNP in Scotland, they would currently be more than offset by big gains in Labour/Conservative marginal seats (such as Canterbury, Bedford and Battersea).
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/aug/29/polls-labour-election-victory-yougov-tories-tactical-voting
https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/all
so the Conservatives would still win?
Yup, I reckon. It'll be Tory unity over all else.
If the LD and Labour cannot organise co-operation before the election it will be too late
Just goes to show what an awful job Corbyn has done for labour when the tories have been shambolic, divided, changed leader from a fool to tool, and he still can't get them polling higher than the conservatives.
7.5 out 10 voters don't want a bar of him, and for a supposed government in waiting, meant to be taking the people with him to victory, that's inexcusable.
Foot v Thatcher all over again.
Maybe the UK has passed peak FPP
I doubt the UK will ever go proportional – It's far too European and foreign.
I meant socially, irrespective of what voting system they have. Labour's numbers look bad from a FPP view, but ok from a PR view.
Sure, but totally irrelevant given the context of the electoral system.
Factor in the Brexit part vote, which I suspect is mainly made up of disaffected conservatives and a few northern racist or dopey former left voters seduced by the running of anti immigration lines, and the numbers, both fpp and pr look eye wateringly bad for labour.
A good April and May for labour but it's all gone rather wonkey since BJ.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_United_Kingdom_general_election
And don't the Tories know it. The arrogance and hubris is breathtaking.
https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1168436686281482240
https://twitter.com/jude5456/status/1168459667779018753
(Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump expressed surprise as Hurricane Dorian slammed the Bahamas on Sunday and headed for the U.S. East Coast, hours after being updated to a Category Five storm.
“I’m not sure that I’ve ever even heard of a Category Five,” Trump said during a televised briefing at Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters in Washington.
“I’ve seen some Category Fours, you don’t even see them that much,” he said. “But a Category Five is something that, I don’t know that I’ve ever even heard the term, other than I know it’s there. That’s the ultimate and that’s what we have, unfortunately.”
Three Category 5 hurricanes have hit the mainland U.S. or U.S. territories, including Puerto Rico, since Trump was inaugurated: Irma and Maria in 2017, and Michael in 2018. Between them, the storms caused about $165 billion in damage.
Trump made a similar comment in 2017, saying of Hurricane Irma at the White House Historical Association dinner that “I never even knew a Category 5 existed.
https://nz.yahoo.com/news/trump-helicopters-golf-course-staying-163116086.html
Free speech? I think this will cost as there seems plenty of money for people to argue their right to say what they bloody well want to.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/397973/auckland-council-taken-to-court-over-far-right-speaking-event-ban
Good. They should have been allowed to speak. Look at whats happening in HK at the moment, free speech needs to be protected.
Yep. I agree. They should be free to make it obvious how daft they are. It will help keep the rabid right vote in New Zealand below 5%.
Yes. Let the people speak so we can see what they're like.
Yip let them speak and let the police take a little note of who listens to them .
They had plenty of media coverage, they spoke a lot then. They could of stood on a street corner, or in a park for example and spoke some more, no one stopped them from finding their own venue. But it was all about the money.
So you'll have no issues when left wing speakers are banned then, good to know
https://twitter.com/DonttreadonH/status/1167889130576998401
https://twitter.com/llllll_jackie/status/1167789099714899970
https://twitter.com/celiahiutung/status/1167814381352022021
#hkpolicebrutality