It's not really that Labour 'have to' look after them, it's that it's in their best electoral interests to look after them. They could go hard-left, like how Labour after 1984 went hard-right. But they won't.
That's one value for Labour of at least a C/S, they can tell voters it was the Greens. Yeah but no-one forced Ardern to give the Greens any power at all, so that's not especially credible, particularly as Labour get last say in any policy they put ...
& Peeni Henare for associate health, specifically for the Maori Health Authority that's proposed as part of the DHB restructure.
The Greens have choices other than coalition with Labour I'm explicitly talking about the outcome of the 2023 election here. If the Greens are upset in 2023 about how they were treated in 2020, their choices may be to get over it and form a coalition with...
I've never made that claim, and I find it dubious given how many of the electorates went to Labour, including non-rural safe ones like Ilam. The article you linked to also says this: Labour campaigned from the centre and will likely govern pretty close to ...
The next election will require a coalition of some sort, to cut off your potential coalition partner's would be stupid. What are the Greens going to do, pack a sad and refuse to form a coalition with Labour, allowing National to form a government instead?...
Not having a formal coalition with the Greens is how the accommodate them.
No, that's not my argument at all. Roy said those voters should be ignored. I said they shouldn't be.
Yes. Which means not having a formal coalition with the Greens.
The idea that Labour should just ignore the people that gave it an outright majority is utterly ridiculous.
There has been a fair bit of commentary suggesting that the election result was bad for the left. This is surprising given that the only available rational conclusion is that it was a blood bath for the right. Because Labour, at best, is a center-left ...
We're talking about what specific words she said on election night. What she said on October 18 or 2017 is not relevant.
Ok, thanks. So that is someone else's reckons on what Marama Davidson said. No, its reporting of what Marama Davidson said. I heard her say it also.
https://www.interest.co.nz/opinion/107594/hayden-wilson-and-linda-clark-dentons-kensington-swan-assess-what-weekends-election Thanks to those ‘new’ voters, Labour’s dominance means that the Greens, despite their own strong turn-out, may find themselves ...
Yes, so what you seem to have missed, is that the Maori Party now have fundamentally reformed themselves, and are saying they would NOT go with National because they are racist. They never made such statements previously, and in fact did go with National, ...
There's more evidence suggesting they aren't than that they are, to be frank. Words from pundits are frankly irrelevant compared to words from Jacinda's mouth. Jacinda openly talked about a "consultation agreement", after she'd mentioned confidence and ...
Nick Smith and Gerry Brownlee both survived the 2002 20.9% drubbing. The fact that National lost so many electorates really should not be overlooked. This time it really is different, and the only question is whether Labour can capitalise on this and ...
https://www.interest.co.nz/opinion/107594/hayden-wilson-and-linda-clark-dentons-kensington-swan-assess-what-weekends-election Thanks to those ‘new’ voters, Labour’s dominance means that the Greens, despite their own strong turn-out, may find themselves ...
They've said they wouldn't go into coalition with National because they're racist, and that they agree with the Greens on most things. I mean you can refuse to take them at their word if you want.
Yip. So long as National + Act are around the 43% or less mark, Labour will win elections going forwards. So Labour need to straddle the center.
I'm reasonably persuaded by the argument that if this kind of mandate isn't the time to go left then there is no time. Which is the dilemma. Labour clearly won this election at the centre, so going left is not appropriate.
It seems like a lot of people voted Labour specifically to keep the Greens out of a position of power - figuring that Winston wouldn't make it this time. So unless Labour wants to really piss those people off, they better keep the Greens out of a position ...
With a majority, Labour now can act, and act quickly. National's going to be struggling for talent in the interim.
I think you need to appreciate how sticky voters can be for parties and candidates. Also whatever has happened historically overseas may not be a good guide for what will happen in this next decade with climate change and other international pressures. ...
Just make it a binding referenda. Difficult for National to argue against that.
There's a 3rd option between confidence and supply w/ ministerial posts and sitting on the cross-benches, which appears what Labour is angling towards at present: a 'consultation agreement'. I think Labour is actually becoming a centrist party now, and ...
So what you're saying is that they got an advantage because of COVID.
Unless he chooses to resign on the back of that result. He's been rejected by his electorate, likely won't stay as deputy and was campaign manager.
It's huge. Also depending how specials go, a shot at getting a 2nd MP coat-tailed in, due to sizeable wasted vote.
is the point and you claimed it was simpler Er, no. If the Greens policy has a complexity and loophole score of 100, TOP's policy might have a complexity and loophole score of 60, and the status quo is 40. 60 is still less than 100. Even if TOP's policy ...
are council ratings valuations contestable? This issue applies to the Greens policy. what are the revenue implications of offsetting farm income against land value? This issue applies to the Greens policy. how is commercial/industrial property captured or...
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