Thank you Carolyn_nth. You are putting into words my own thoughts ... and you say you are "old". So am I. I think you are seeing the same things happening as I have seen - because we have seen it in the past, in Labour. The real left struggle to maintain ...
Yes - I, too, was taken aback when Mike W said that about child poverty. Wondered where he'd been the last few weeks - certainly not somewhere reading the news. Good story in ODT carolyn_nth - thanks for the link.
Totally agree with you, Tautoko - including the bit about being opposed to Charter Schools. But there's no getting around the fact that NZ has had special character schools for decades, and Labour said - right from the beginning when these charter schools ...
Excellent post, Weka. Colonisation and urbanisation has certainly helped create many of the problems we're experiencing now - and a lack of forethought and knowledge of what-might-come-in-the-future on the part of local authorities, government and the ...
Climate change is here.
Good post, Weka. But we cannot blame local councils for inaction. Quite a number of them are trying to effect change, but property owners (usually reasonably wealthy and able to argue against change in the Environment Court) won't let them. Our local ...
Good comments Korero Pono re Meritia. She has done a brave thing to highlight the extreme difficulties beneficiaries have trying to live - with their families - on a miserly benefit, all the while being vilified for being on it.
Well - Rhino - possibly you and I have different definitions of real leadership. I'm inclined towards the view that a showman who goes after the popularity vote is not necessarily a good real leader. A real leader to me is one who takes up the challenge of...
Nope - I was just genuinely curious as to whom you thought was showing REAL leadership. Not quasi-blackmail - just curiosity. And now you've answered my question.
well you talked about REAL leadership, Rhino. So who is it who is showing REAL leadership in your view then ? You've just ruled out old Win (and I can call him old Win because he's as old as I am) , and you appear to have ruled out Labour and the Greens (...
Rhinocrates - Labour was correct in showing up foreign speculators as being a major cause of the huge increase in housing speculation which has put the ordinary NZer well out of the home-ownership ranks, and especially younger NZers. And talk about racism ...
That would be good strategic voting, Andre - and could be beneficial to the outcome - if we want to have a strong Labour-Green coalition without having to rely overly much on old Win.
Not sure why you're attacking this Recognised Seasonal Employer scheme, Siobhan but perhaps you don't realise those RSEs have to have good workers conditions, look after their workers and house them properly and pay their workers current market rates.
You're getting a bit mixed up Weka - Labour is putting their policies on both website and facebook and twitter - maybe not quick enough for you, but they're going up within a reasonable time span. But then relating what the MSM is saying about the Maori ...
The seeming increase in NZF supporters is because old Win is going around the country and using every opportunity to spout some nonsensical policy or bottom line from his big black bus - which the media just love. And picking up National supporters along ...
+100%, Kat. All this anti-Labour talk is doing one thing - turning people away from Labour. Great ! Just what the Nats (and NZ First) want. So - we'll get another three years of devastating and heartbreaking policies against ordinary New Zealanders while ...
Bill says "So you think a housing priority that will see 100 years lapse before the number of rental houses NZ Labour intends to build (1000 per year) equals the number of “first time buyer” houses it intends to build in the next 10 years (100 000)....." ...
Yes !!! Good on Ginny and her mates - out in the cold, doing it hard, and getting somewhere. Great to hear ! (We were out figuring out how to put up hoardings!)
of course not, Mosa. The MSM like to cover this stuff up. Thank goodness to people like No Right Turn who remind us about this ..... if we'd forgotten, or not read about it.
rhinocrates " …and a pathway to the front benches for junior MPs that is blocked to all but the those whose sycophancy is greater than their talent. Labour’s not going to attract and keep new membership and candidates when they see that their careers will ...
greywarshark - You have just quoted a perfect example of Simon Wilson's thesis : "Enemy number three is the hard left, the very vocal sector who, strange but true, regard the fight against “neoliberalism” as more important than the campaign to get Labour ...
+100% red-blooded.
Yes - the Colmar-B don't knows were 19%. Very very high. The Roy Morgan dont' knows were 8.5% - also high.
"Enough with the nonsense that there is no difference between National and Labour. "Voters are being offered a clear and important choice." Yep - its becoming clearer and clearer - and there's still a way to go. Labour IS different from National and its ...
Andrew Little has clarified just where he stands on this little spat between the Greens and NZ First. I think he’s capable of pulling both these Parties together for the common good of us all. He’s done it before (pulling difficult/problematic people ...
Weka - Andrew Little has clarified just where he stands on this little spat between the Greens and NZ First. Just a couple of hours ago. I think he's capable of pulling both these Parties together for the common good of us all. He's done it before (pulling...
Yep - this billboard looks good. Agree with you Redlion Seratus.
Surprise, surprise - the majority of Standard posters having a grizzle about Labour again. I just came on here to see if any of your right-minded posters had anything complimentary to say about Labour doing away with the Nats proposed tax cuts and using ...
Labour has a good, a very good, water policy Chairman. But it is just possible - maybe quite possible - that because the Greens are seen to be the environmental party that Labour has stepped back out of the limelight on this particular issue to give a ...
+ 100% Craig H (and to Louis above - yep, leave the grizzlers to themselves ! There are better things to do with one's time - like changing things from the inside as Craig says).
You guys - Bill and Michael - are really getting personal now. Which indicates to me that you're running out of steam. Good !
An Australian solidarity group for West Papua today warned of a fresh “heavy handed” Indonesia crackdown on Papuan villagers with more “arrests and torture”.
Joe Collins of the Australia West Papua Association (AWPA) gave the warning in the wake of the deployment of 30 elite ...
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