Early voting starts tomorrow and probably most of you have already decided how you will vote. For me, it will be Labour as my candidate vote and Green as my party vote. I have been helping our local Labour candidate in various ways, including door-knocking...
"Outside this forum there are many Labour folks who want NZF instead of Greens". What are you basing this on Tracey? Do you have any evidence of this at all? If you do could you please link to it. I know a lot of Labour Party supporters and I do not know a...
Bernard Hickey @bernardchickey 31m31 minutes ago "National doubles 1st home buyers grants again. Treasury says they just push up prices & hand subsidies to the rich."
Me too. The Greens are the ones who need support now to make sure they get over 5%. So please - anyone thinking of party voting Mana or TOP don't waste your vote. The Greens need you and NZ needs the Greens in the next government.
"Many people with mental health issues self medicate". I agree with this, I just don't agree that all those with addiction problems are also mentally ill. I also think drug addiction is a health issue, not a criminal justice issue, and that there needs to ...
This is unfair Tracey. Labour will be spending an extra $8 billion on health and there will be a review of mental health and addiction services in their first 100 days. As far as mental health services go some specific policies have already been announced....
Braid has been making huge donations to the Māori Party - more than $150,000 at last count. Not sure what his end game is.
I have a niece with 5 kids living in a cold draughty rental. You can see the ground through the floorboards, the walls aren't lined and the windows have gaps. She is on DPB and she lives there because it is all she can afford. If her landlord had to pay ...
"And labour in the past has openly courted NZF far more than the Greens" In the past this was true, but it is not true now. As I have said, there are some in the Labour Party who do prefer NZF but they are definitely in the minority and they have been for ...
I don't think Xanthe is/has ever been a Labour or Green voter based on his/her comments over the years.
The policies have not changed since Ardern took over. The difference is that they have had media attention because of Ardern.
+1 red-blooded.
I don't get this accusation of "stealing" policies. Parties develop their own policies and sometimes they overlap. Labour's policy on clean water and on climate change are much the same as in the last election. The fact that Labour and the Greens have ...
Grant Robertson and James Shaw are close personal friends - they share many values. There are undoubtably members of the Labour Party and some Labour MPS who would prefer a coalition with NZF - Grant Robertson is not one of them. I am not a big fan of ...
The MOU was developed over a year and was not hurriedly put together at all. It was something that had wide support from members of the Labour Party for a very long time. Both the leaders of the Green Party took part in the discussions with Andrew Little ...
+1 Weka I think the thing that many are missing is that the policies of the Labour Party and the Green Party are very similar in many respects and that this is the reason that the Green Party is the preferred coalition party for Labour and is also the ...
+1 Carolyn Particularly this: "refuses to acknowledge that even “good guys” can enable the problem" I wish all those men who spend time berating women calling out sexism claiming "not all men" instead called out the men who engage in sexist and misogynist ...
They do if they are being paid at the single rate - they only have to respond if there is a change in circumstances..
"I’ve never had one nor has my husband who’s been in receipt of NZ super for 6 years or so". This is why. These letters are not sent if you are in a relationship. I just checked with family members - the single ones get it annually, the couples don't.
I think you only get that letter if you are single. If you are in a relationship at the time of application then they assume you will contact them if you later become single as then you would be entitled to a higher rate. They are not interested in making ...
He hates being questioned at all - it has to be his way or no way. I find him to be an exceptionally obnoxious man and his choice of Sean Plunkett as PR just reinforces the general impression of him being a misogynist bully.
"Better to leave Super alone and fix the rest of WINZ so it is humane". I agree with this. Super has meant NZ has lower levels of poverty amongst older age groups and the universality means it is cheap to administer. We need to do something similar for ...
I agree, Weka. I had already started to warm to James Shaw having been rather unsure about him for some time, but I have become a fan because of his support of Metiria, which has been exemplary I think. It was Metiria's decision to stand down because of ...
We got to there at 12:40 and the queue was already getting close to the Civic. At 1:00 my partner went and checked at the entrance and discovered the main room at the Town Hall was already full and the chamber was filling up fast. Q theatre would be the ...
The different treatment from Māori media was stark. I always record The Hui and Marae as I find their coverage of current affairs is so much better that that offered by The Nation or Q & A. Have a look at last week's programmes (they will be on line) and ...
Depends a bit on overlaps but they would get 7 or 8 with 6% and between 9 and 10 with 8%. If they get over 9% Jack McDonald makes it which will be excellent - but I am hoping that they do even better. I think this bad poll will actually motivate wavering ...
Sue said the same on Morning Report. She was on with political scientist Bronwyn Hayward who pointed out that single polls are not significant in themselves and the poll of polls, which shows the Greens at 6.9%, is a better indication of their current ...
"I am saying, the right wing of the labour caucus was looking for an opportunity to install their leader in the 2 month window before an election, and that the Turei narrative provided an opportunity that they tried to capitalise on." I think this is ...
I do not blame Metiria either. She has highlighted the plight of beneficiaries in a way that nobody else has been able to do. I think it is an absolute tragedy that she has felt it necessary to stand down as co-leader because of the bullying of her family ...
So what you are actually saying is that you are willing to believe that Turei was lying because it fits your narrative.
"The turning point for Metiria came when Ardern threw her, and beneficiaries, under the bus." This was not the turning point for Metiria. The dirty politics team and the MSM were baying for her blood as soon as the dirty politics team had fed them the ...
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