"25.5% wake up to reality" yep, Jacindas labour party is now polling like labour did under Cunliffe and Shearer. Labour is totally out of touch with mainstream New Zealand and has been all year and instead of listening Labour and it's supporters block ...
"true leadership is doing what's needed not what's popular" True leadership from this labour government, you're joking right? The same labour govt who ruled out a much needed capital gains tax, ruled out meaningful legislation on supermarkets and banks, ...
https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/130665610/new-poll-shows-national-and-act-in-comfortable-position-to-form-government National and Act increasing their lead with NZ first verging on re-entering parliament. Its now been over six months of national ...
Agree 100% A labour party that was the voice of the people and wasn't filled with almost exclusively academics, neoliberal apologists and the over educated professional managerial class technocrats wouldn't back down to outraged academics and would realize...
"but then Don Brash lost National the election badly" surely you're not talking about when national nearly won 2005? I hate Don Brash but that is a total rewriting of history, Don Brash and his iwi/kiwi campaign took National from 27 seats to 48 seats and...
Holy crap. This is disgusting Labour tribalism and unfounded too. When I was volunteering and campaigning for labour in 2017 and 2020 the local dairy owners in Christchurch central would rave about Labour and how labour is their party. They are hurting and...
National thinks kids should be treated like adults when it comes to punishment and taxation but not when it comes to voting. Its bizarre.
Ruling out Labour is a dumb move on Winston's behalf. He has always benefited from being able to go with either side, he has always said making statements about potential coalition partners before the votes are counted was stupid. A lot of lefty's refuse ...
Doubt it. Being so incredibly close to the incumbent pm in preferred pm polling is an achievement, incumbents are always more popular, he's so far been the most popular of the legion of nats who've gone up against her. The u turning is embarrassing but so ...
The economy is great on paper and this government has made the rich astonishingly richer. Everyone else is in abject misery on the verge of nervous breakdowns about their accomodation, if their tenancy isn't renewed they are screwed. Trying to find a ...
The endless negativity by some left wing commentators is unhelpful because it makes it seem like the government has achieved nothing. The endless positivity and cheerleading of the govt with no criticism by others is also deeply unhelpful, especially when ...
Forget civil rights, The outcome of today's elections in the united states have the potential to be the end of democracy in the united states. Considering the ammount of election deniers on the ballot saying they'd refuse to certify presidential elections ...
Fully agree. In a time of such deep distrust and disdain of media and journalism, media companies should go out of their way to hire people with no connections to the political class so they can't be accused of bias and quite frankly, nepotism. We ...
As someone whose main priority politically is regulating and breaking up big tech and ending data mining...isn't it glorious. Meta lost 70% of it's stock value. Compared to twitters 200 million global users there are 2 billion Facebook users plus a billion...
Five years in and we're still talking about "great first steps" ... Its just so disappointing and that's the greatest killer in politics. Her leadership since the 2020 election, is going to be studied by generations as a case study in what not to do after ...
https://youtu.be/wLFE95ebLNU Has anyone seen the YouTube video that shows the kick off to labour's convention? Its says a lot about the membership of the modern labour party. A couple minutes in, a reel plays of the governments achievements, it's the ...
While the click baiting of crime porn is pretty crappy and the govt has put more cops on the streets... Someone is going to die from these little shits and my mum is a home help nurse who bikes to and from five different clients houses all around town ...
That's a great point the govt should steal that line from you tbh
Collins lost because he was unable to get voters to turn out. Pure and simple. He was also a terrible public speaker who campaigned against gay marriage and was a weed prohibitionist up against a pro gay marriage pro weed candidate. Collins was totally ...
We urgently need more diversity of class in parliament, parliament is extremely diverse in terms of race gender and sexuality but utterly unrepresentative in terms of class, education and income. An upper middle class brown,gay, female is no different to ...
Go back to the 1980s with that fiction. I've seen more racism in Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga than I've ever seen in Christchurch. Christchurch is by any international standard a progressive city, more progressive than Auckland in a shit load of ways. I ...
Hell yeah. There's definitely a case for it and there could be several models for it. I wouldn't carbon copy the old one but I'd use it as an inspiration. There definitely should be a government owned construction and development corporation, perhaps a ...
Better yet, give disabled people a living wage and create a new agency specifically for disabled people so they don't have to go through the genuine trauma and mental abuse and embarrassment that is msd. Labour's talk about kindness is total rubbish when ...
Totally agree with radical alternative. Chloe has been put on some weird pedestal from day one of her parliamentary career and it's never made any sense. Shes the same age as me and politically I agree with her but I find her alienating af and her "...
Every election I have a good laugh about mayor's and city council candidates running on platforms and how tell the public they are gonna change things as if they truly believe they have some executive power. Mate you're just a glorified city councilor with...
Thanks Patricia, yep unfortunately you really can't help people unless they want to help themselves. Its been like a slow moving car crash watching him deteriorate. He is pretty much who I aspire not to be tbh, one day he'll wake up all alone and take a ...
Omg he's so embarrassing, he owes Aunty Kay hundreds of thousands and he's saying she's going to pay him. Good grief I'm sick of him dragging the family through the media. He's living in an alternate dimension. Hes a working class guy from east ...
As a millennial I've always been amazed by the anti boomer rhetoric from the left because most of the economic lefty's I see are boomers, my generation is more social justice left and when we talk about economics it's about middle class things like student...
The funny thing about three waters is this government has sold it wrong from the start, it should have been sold as patriotic nationalization, unashamedly protectionist of water to protect NZ's water quality, upgrade our infrastructure and protect water ...
Actually it's a lot like the democrats under Obama, over 8 years they were obliterated in state and municipal and police elections to the point that in 2016 not only had they lost all branches of federal government for the first time in a century, more ...
I've voted in every election I've been able to since I turned 18 and canvassed and would have easily enrolled thousands to vote in central govt elections I've only voted in one local government election and that was 2016 and it was such a complicated ...
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