It's not about the policy it's about the lying about consultation and advice. Dyed in the wool Leftys may not have liked her but a lot of people in the civil service, media and public liked her, as much as they like Chloe Swarbrick, shocking but yes she is...
I am dumbfounded at labour's Shadow cabinet announced today. You'd think since Labour only holds 17 electorates, all 17 successful electorate mps would be in shadow cabinet, nope, insetead FIFTEEN are List mps, most who lost safe seats and should have ...
Labour does have an ideology it's called managerialism. Managing the neoliberal economic consensus, throwing a few economic scraps to the peasentary so they don't revolt, while passing revolutionary social policy and legislating against behaviors they ...
No, most people hate intersectional theories of social justice. People vote for left wing parties for wages, houses, poverty and to reign in capitalism. But everytime we vote for the left instead of getting any of that we get a bunch of power mad green ...
Hell yeah. Victory to the vapers. Labour were absolutely nanny state busy bodies on vaping, the week after they changed vaping laws they put us in that final months long lock down and it was impossible to get juice. Shocking Labour never banned disposables...
It's terrifying and happened in Sweeden and is due to happen in Germany where the AFD is polling more than their Labour, green, act coalition Combined. Not working with these parties isn't sustainable in the long term because they keep growing. It's deeply...
Doubtful as gen z seems to be the opposite of gen y and lean more libertarian. If anything politics is becoming for all generations, male vs female. The left globally have absolutely lost the ability to speak to male voters, but the right still gets enough...
You'd think the media which is deeply incompetent, would have done this research two years ago and leading up to the election not after it... Good grief. Luxon barely understands how question time works or parliamentary process it's actually quite ...
No, Luxon will slavishly follow China, it's mps routinely worship China and It's mp's are pro China on everything from military build up in the pacific to disturbingly, China's position on Taiwan both of which are far more relevant to this country. Jacinda...
To be fair that's pretty much true every of every Labour party including pre MMP NZLP. Labour parties only get elected when capitalism fails. Blair is the only UK Labour pm in history to serve two full terms and while it's been 26 years since he was ...
Winston has more power than people realize. While there's no chance of a Labour coalition, the make up of parliament is 60 seats right block, 55 seats left block. With nzf's 8 seats it could always choose to sit in the cross bench and force a national ...
What good mps has the party lost? The few good ones are still there along with a mountain of hangers on, primarily in leadership. This is a caucus afraid of its membership which is why it's spent the last three years taking as much power as possible away ...
The leader is the one who made captains call after captains call. Hipkins is the first Labour leader I've ever heard say "I've decided" "I've come to the conclusion" when talking about party policy. HE made it presidential. He made it all about him, ...
Whenever people say that it's fine if Labour loses the left vote because the left will go to the greens forget one thing: When the left ditches Labour, Labour drops below 30% and when a major party drops below 30% it's written off by the center. Without ...
The problem is the review will be narrow, short sighted and will not consult the membership. Labour will inoculate itself from as much criticism as possible. It will not reach out to members who ditched it in the last three years, nor voters who ditched it...
100% worst Labour prime minister, period. I genuinely can't think of a worse Labour prime minister, Palmer... Maybe. I genuinely believe the man wanted Labour to lose the election, he's a small c conservative and genuinely believes in neolib econic theory ...
If you can't win an electorate or hit 5% I'm OK with you not being in parliament. 5% or needing an electorate is reasonable. If we lower the threshold then I'd want to get rid of the mixed member model and go full proportional because the amount of ...
Are you saying the public are sick of every major decision being fobbed off to expensive and lengthy working groups with narrow scope whose timid findings Labour always ignore? Are you saying people want the leaders they elect to actually make decisions? ...
Labour had a lot of liberal gun owners who voted for it in 2017 and then voted act after 2019. But more concerning for the left: Labour and the Greens have bled so much 18-45 year old male support in the last 6 years. While canvassing and campaigning for ...
I voted green but if the greens were in a position to stop a Nat/act govt from inflicting brutal austerity on NZs poorest and to stop climate change action in NZ from going backwards under Nat/act and chose not to stop Nat/act. I'd never vote for them ...
So hipkins will make life as easy as possible for Luxon and throw strategy out the window and hope to reduce the overhang out of pure tribalism. It's the labour way.
100,000% agree. The party needs to renew and needs all hands on deck. If you can't win a safe seat you are dead weight and are not going to be able to help the party renew and should resign with dignity, or be pushed. Russell, Davis, Heneare, Anderson, ...
Yes it absolutely has and it's becoming worse and worse, don't you love how Ardern only used her political capital to kneecap the left? Whenever she went up in the polls, she would immediately rule out some sort of left wing policy or vision. Everytime. ...
Pagani and Edward's figures are weird af about education but even on numbers you quoted, 40% of kiwis are not represented by parliament. Let's say 60% of kiwis have a tertiary degree, at least a third but likely more will have engineering, design, science ...
Heh Doing anything, literally anything on any of those things would make National more left wing than Labour (wouldn't be the first time, Labour was the right wing party in the 87 election, economically) If Labour won't with a majority national won't with ...
Gen x, Millenials and Gen z sacrificed two years of our lives to keep thousands of boomers alive... And those Boomers repay us by going feral and moaning that we saved their lives, getting all tin foil hatty and voting for this pos. [deleted] [it's against...
How can we get organized? Labour as a vehicle has proven it's incapable of progressive change, even with an insane mandate. The membership of the Labour party from the grassroots are all wannabe politicians who think towing the party line and butt kissing ...
I'm not sure it can look like a govt in waiting, The Labour party nearly died the last time it was in opposition, it couldn't connect with anyone and had no vision. The only reason its polls ever went up was because people liked Jacinda, not Labour, take ...
After the specials and by-election it's pretty much certain national and act will be on 59-61 in a 122 to 123 seat parliament meaning we're getting a minority govt. In that scenario Winston, who having returned from the dead, again, might actually want to ...
There's alway an excuse for why Labour fails to deliver, and it's never labour's fault. in 2017-2020 it was Winston and since 2020 it's been the pandemic. The same pandemic that is only reason Labour got a second term resulted in unprecedented nation ...
Too many activists and influencers and thought "leaders" on the left and right have no understanding of what a debate or contest of ideas is, they have been trained by social media to instantly spew out their opinions and block any opposing view to give ...
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