Cunliffe left-wing? Puh-lease. His rhetoric was, but his manifesto was to the right of Phil Goff's.
But Greens voted for the tax cuts that make those budget cuts necessary, in the name of "helping the poor".
Again though, they voted for $1.8b of tax cuts that help the rich are paid for by gutting public services. It was seven times the size of the WFF changes. This will send more kids into poverty. Weird move.
I'm not denying your right to post what you like, but this is the third post defending the Greens' record on the Budget. You wouldn't have to be doing this if the Greens had just voted the principled and politically smart way.
I'm not dumping on the Greens, I'm just pointing out the Greens dumped on lefties and indeed anyone who wants to change this miserable government. That can't be denied, whatever spin is put on it.
I'd rather it wasn't this way. But this is what people are seeing, and what people are telling me having seen it. It might uncomfortable, but there it is. Actions have consequences, and we are all reaping the consequences from the Greens' decision to back ...
It's almost as if they voted against it.
There's no rebutting it - the Greens voted with National and against Labour on the centrepiece of the election year Budget.
No one denies their right to stick their head in a blender. The criticism is that they did, and dragged Labour in with them.
All I see when looking at the media is: - The Greens support National's tax cuts as something that's going to help families on low incomes. - Labour and the Greens couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery and are unfit to govern. The Greens could have ...
Understand what you're saying, but. Look at the news headlines. That's all you need to know. This was utterly predictable the moment they decided to vote for it.
The Greens gave National a cover of compassion while also giving them a stick to beat the Left with. They walked straight into National's trap. Well done team, well done.
There is no compassion in paying for tax cuts that the Greens themselves say favour high income earners by cutting health and education and doing SFA on housing. Honestly, it just doesn't make any sense and I haven't heard anyone from the Greens explain to...
Green Party themselves admit the tax cut part of the package (which is the bulk of the money) favours top earners. And it is being paid for by savage cuts to health and education and removing the revenue the crown needs to address housing in any meaningful...
Reality is they're voting for just $300m of WFF and a massive $1.8b of tax cuts. Unbelievable when they're paid for by deep cuts to social services.
None of this means anything. The Greens are voting for National's election year Budget in which they are putting in nearly $2b of tax cuts and gutting our health and education systems while doing nothing on housing.
Labour is voting against the tax cuts and for our public services. The Greens are voting for the tax cuts and to gut our social services. It's a pity.
This is not a win. Labour looks divided. That is toxic to voters.
Who says they were incapable of managing it internally? Poto Williams broke the internal processes. She's fronted up today and good on her. That deserves respect.
So Poto has backed Little's judgement of Willy Jackson. Great!
Willy Jackson would have put that statement out himself to media. It won't have gone through Labour as he's not a candidate or an MP.
I think you've done enough damage this week. [banned for attacking an author, 3 months. I'm done with being undermined. If you do that shit again when you come back, I will ban you long term. - weka] [lprent: Good. ]
Again: http://livenews.co.nz/2017/02/05/statement-issued-on-behalf-of-willie-jackson-labour-party/
You must have missed his statement on the weekend. http://livenews.co.nz/2017/02/05/statement-issued-on-behalf-of-willie-jackson-labour-party/
I think some people are just looking for something to complain about, now that Poto has met with Willy Jackson and is satisfied with his response.
I think the concerns about process are blown out of all proportion, and have got more prominent the less sure people have become that Willy Jackson is the unrepentant rape apologist the Twitterati have made him out to be. The man learned his lesson. He's ...
Surely Poto gets to decide what she says? It's her statement, not Willy Jackson's. Surprised Jessica Williams would think Willy or Labour HQ should tell Poto what to say or how to say it or who should be in it.
Or maybe a leader is perfectly entitled to back someone for a winnable list place, especially when poaching that candidate from another party, and it doesn't circumvent anything constitutionally? And maybe, just maybe, people should have first looked into ...
Lesson should be don't fucking comment until you know the facts.
This hypocrisy is real, but it also shows why the people within Labour attacking Labour so publicly on something they know so little about are causing immense damage to the work all of us do to build a better country. They seem to think that their view (...
Oldies sat up front.
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