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Post by eri on Mar 11, 2023 20:19:35 GMT 12
While in opposition, Prime Minister Chris Hipkins campaigned against the growing use of costly consultants and criticised National’s overuse of such contractors. However, Hipkins then became the Minister of Public Service, under Jacinda Ardern, and oversaw massive increases.Conservative political commentator Liam Hehir points out the problem for Labour: “This puts the government in a difficult position, particularly since the explosion in private bureaucracy occurred under the watch of now prime minister Chris Hipkins, who promised the opposite. So now Labour must either accept the criticism or defend the consultants who have done so well at the expense of public finances in the recent years. It’s a hard position for Labour to be put in.”eveningreport.nz/2023/03/06/bryce-edwards-political-roundup-nationals-progressive-childcare-consultocracy-switch/
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Post by ComfortZone on Mar 13, 2023 11:59:51 GMT 12
an opinion piece, based on recent polls, on where NZ could finish up after this years election thebfd.co.nz/2023/03/11/a-hipkins-win-will-move-nz-further-left-than-ever/excerpts in italics The polling company which most accurately picked New Zealand’s 2017 and 2020 elections, Melbourne-based Roy Morgan, reported today a dead-heat between Labour and the Greens, and National and Act, its classical-liberal ally. According to Roy Morgan, the small Maori Party would hold the balance of power.The Curia poll released the following day had very similar results And there’s the problem. Under the baleful co-governance (pun intended) of Rawiri Waititi and Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, the Maori Party is an ultra-radical leftist party with an obsessive drive to establish an apartheid state in New Zealand — or “Aotearoa” as they prefer to call it. Waititi, on his own public statements, is an openly racist Maori supremacist. Ngarewa-“Pakeha”, like the bourgeois intellectuals of the Bolsheviks who affected a prolier-than-thou stance, appears to be making up for her own thoroughly colonised DNA by trying to be Maori-er than the next wahine.and from the comments The Maori Party represents a radical-left, ethnically-based, nationalist party (fascist in most people's understanding). The Maori Labour Caucus has the much the same stance but within the currently governing-with-an-absolute-majority party. The Greens (largely Maori-led or sympathetic) are strong allies.
The general mood of the country is that anything you say against this triumvirate is classed as "Racist". This is your Long March.
The "conservative" stance is embodied by WASPs (White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant) and it doesn't matter if they align with National, ACT, or any of the smaller parties, the party is irrelevant.
What we have now is pure raced-based politics. Whether you are right or left, socialist or conservative, nationalist or globalist no longer matters. It has been a long time coming, slowly, slowly the foundations have been put in place and now they stand on solid rock. The trajectory is now set and it doesn't matter who leads National, conservatism is spent as a political force. |
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Post by DuckMaster on Mar 13, 2023 17:38:41 GMT 12
According to the latest One News Kantar poll, Chris Hipkins has risen four points to 27 per cent as preferred Prime Minister, while Chris Luxon of the National party has dropped five points to 17 per cent. The poll also shows a drop of two points for the Labour party to 36 per cent and a fall of three points for National to 34 per cent. The Green party has seen a significant increase, rising four points to 11 per cent, while Act is up one point to also sit on 11 per cent.
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Post by ComfortZone on Mar 13, 2023 20:59:27 GMT 12
 and Hipkins was party to virtually all of this as a member of the cabinet inner circle |
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Post by DuckMaster on Mar 13, 2023 21:40:41 GMT 12
The leader and their promises are what really matter to voters. It's not about the party's history or previous leaders they are largely irrelevant to voters.
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Post by ComfortZone on Mar 14, 2023 8:10:47 GMT 12
The leader and their promises are what really matter to voters. It's not about the party's history or previous leaders they are largely irrelevant to voters. You know the old saying " a leopard does not change its spots" and this very much applies to Hipkins - his past actions and behaviour especially the racist revisionist history curriculum being forced on our kids, are all true indications of his true intentions, all the "shelving" of unpopular policies is just window dressing to try to fall across the elections line. If Labour get back in we can be sure that most/all of the radical policies currently shelved or kept under the covers will be back on the table again. |
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Post by sloopjohnb on Mar 14, 2023 8:32:08 GMT 12
Agreed CZ
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Post by fish on Mar 14, 2023 10:14:36 GMT 12
My major concern isn't Hipkins, its that Luxon isn't pushing a new vision.
We assume Luxon will be a diligent and capable leader, but currently that is only an assumption.
National's main economic approach has been nixed by the Reserve Bank. They haven't announced what they intend to do now.
Hipkins is doing a very diligent rush to the centre. Luxon can't go further right, because he needs the centre vote to oust Labour. So then what? How does he differentiate himself & National?
The last pole gives rise to a massive risk for the Country. Lab/Greens in a dead heat with Nat/ACT, and the racists holding the balance of power. That would be a terrible outcome for democracy, but it is a real possibility. On that, I'll bet a good bottle of whisky that Labour don't push hard in the Wairaki seat. They'll put up a weak candidate to ensure the racist guy gets in along with 2 or 3 mates.
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Post by GO30 on Mar 14, 2023 11:56:03 GMT 12
The leader and their promises are what really matter to voters. It's not about the party's history or previous leaders they are largely irrelevant to voters. The opposite for me and many I know, the ones who aren't lazy of course, which sadly wouldn't be the majority. Leaders are only lipstick and as Jacinda very clearly demonstrated, you can be as popular are a Jelly Tip on a hot summers day yet still achieve less than said Jelly Tip. Track record also counts for a fair amount as well, which is why I'm really struggling to believe a word Hopkins (spelling) utters. |
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Post by DuckMaster on Mar 14, 2023 12:00:22 GMT 12
The leader and their promises are what really matter to voters. It's not about the party's history or previous leaders they are largely irrelevant to voters. The opposite for me and many I know, the ones who aren't lazy of course, which sadly wouldn't be the majority. Leaders are only lipstick and as Jacinda very clearly demonstrated, you can be as popular are a Jelly Tip on a hot summers day yet still achieve less than said Jelly Tip. Track record also counts for a fair amount as well, which is why I'm really struggling to believe a word Hopkins (spelling) utters. Couldn't agree more. |
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Post by ComfortZone on Mar 15, 2023 8:49:12 GMT 12
on Hipkins thebfd.co.nz/2023/03/14/dont-be-fooled-by-the-choir-boy-looks/and Luxon thebfd.co.nz/2023/03/15/is-christopher-a-good-name-for-nationals-elephant/and how the election is shaping up democracyproject.nz/2023/03/14/bryce-edwards-labours-refocus-is-working/quoting from Edwards Writing today for Newsroom, political editor Jo Moir is scathing, saying “Labour has overtaken National as the party of doing nothing. Both leaders are now in a race to do as little as possible to rock the voter boat right through until the election in October”. She says yesterday’s policy bonfire “was a depressing reminder of how cynical politics can be.”
Moir challenged Hipkins yesterday to name policies that the Labour Government might be remembered for, and he struggled. And as to what his political ambitions for the year are, he said rather honestly, “well, I’m aiming for us to have at least three more years after this where we can do a range of things as well”. In response, Moir sums this up as “the focus is getting back into power.”
She says therefore, the “next seven months won’t be about policy that will progress New Zealand and New Zealanders’ lives but a strategic game of vote winning”, and it’s simply “a fight for the status quo, a fight to not progress or improve, a fight for the worst kind of politics.”But never forget Labour will still have sitting in the background all their radical policies waiting to be pulled off the shelf again if re-relected. This will be particularly the case if they need the Maori party's support to form a government. If National were smart, they should consider standing aside in Northland to let Mike King pick up the seat. That could attract enough disaffected National voters to swing in behind King to gain several seats. Then of course there is always Winston sitting out there and whether NZ First will get over 5% |
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Post by ComfortZone on Mar 15, 2023 14:51:26 GMT 12
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Post by ComfortZone on Mar 17, 2023 8:26:25 GMT 12
more on the Nash issue thebfd.co.nz/2023/03/17/our-leaders-need-a-lesson-in-civics/even the sycophantic media are piling in, they obviously smell blood But Malpass points out that although Nash is “not regarded as a particularly effective minister”, he’s been useful for Labour because he’s got a persona as “an important jack-the-lad type figure in a Labour Party that has had issues in the past appealing to men”.
Other commentators say that Nash has become a liability because of his “bravado”. Newshub political editor Jenna Lynch reports: “Beehive sources behind the scenes were in disbelief, saying the now former Police Minister had ‘too much testosterone’ and – brutally – that his actions were ‘dumb as f***’.”
Newsroom political editor Jo Moir argues today that Hipkins would be wise to reconsider keeping Nash on, as he has failed to “kill off” the controversy with his halfway measure of only taking away his Police role. She thinks he needs to go completely, and that the PM should announce another reshuffle:
“Hipkins has done nothing to respond to Nash’s inability to identify that his actions were unwise, unprofessional, and made him unfit for any ministerial role. If after almost six years as a minister, Nash still doesn’t know what breaching the Cabinet manual looks like how can Hipkins trust him not to do it again?”
Going to be interesting to see how Hipkins handles this. Just highlights once again the depth of incompetence in this government. Elsewhere I have seen it proposed the Angry Andy is being tipped as the replacement police minister, sure to do a great job having totally f....d up health |
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Post by fish on Mar 17, 2023 9:56:37 GMT 12
I previously thought Nash was a semi-competent MP within Labour. All I'm seeing is someone who is scared of the Forestry Lobby, and thinks getting tough on crime is telling Mike Hoskin he phoned the Police Commissioner once.
I am gobsmacked at how incompetent Labour is. Casting my mind back 5 yrs ago to when I voted for them, housing, child poverty... Nope, nadda, nothing.
Then they give all the universal super receivers the inflation pay increase, while the teachers are striking for exactly that, an inflation pay increase. It just makes my head hurt!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2023 11:44:20 GMT 12
I previously thought Nash was a semi-competent MP within Labour. All I'm seeing is someone who is scared of the Forestry Lobby, and thinks getting tough on crime is telling Mike Hoskin he phoned the Police Commissioner once. I am gobsmacked at how incompetent Labour is. Casting my mind back 5 yrs ago to when I voted for them, housing, child poverty... Nope, nadda, nothing. Then they give all the universal super receivers the inflation pay increase, while the teachers are striking for exactly that, an inflation pay increase. It just makes my head hurt! Speaking of teachers. Why would anyone entertain the idea of teaching?? Money $27 ph average but its salary based with lots of before/after school work,marking,sports etc Cant discipline a child,can have paret meetings.Whoop de do.As if they work or parents even bother. |
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