politics

Just got this email from NZ first:...

“It’s hard to be poor, it’s expensive to be poor, and moreover, public discourse is making it socially unacceptable to be poor. Whether it’s bashing on beneficiaries, dragging our feet towards a living wage, throwing shade on school breakfast programmes, or restricting people’s ability to collectively bargain for...

Let’s look on the bright side. The people voted this way (quite significantly) so they must be seeing something positive there. I already know all the downsides so let’s discuss the upsides.

Like if somehow the minor parties (Act, Greens, NZF, the cult party, TOP, etc) got enough votes and then also decided to join against both major parties? It would be a total mishmash and would never happen but what do you think would happen if we hopped into bizzarro world?

I don’t know a single person voting Nats but my gut feeling is they will get it. And likely not by a huge margin, meaning Nat-Act govt likely....

I just skimmed through the leaflets and realized they got almost as many as lab/nat....

On my lunch break I went to the nearest shopping centre to vote. I was the only person in the place under the age of 70....

Usually their hot topics are bitching about housing and simping for TOP but these days I’ve noticed a lot more posts to the extent of “labour sucks and now I have no choice but to vote for national >:(”. Unsure if this reflects a general change in sentiment or if certain parties are spending their excess donations on...

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@Dave @SamC already posted about this yesterday, but there’s been heaps more coverage of this story. This was yesterday:...

Sat 1 July, 3:00 pm...

The popular wisdom is that Labour were guaranteed to lose if Ardern stayed on. But the polls are basically unchanged since mid-'22 (especially when looking at the coalition blocs)....

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Hi all, we have another new mod joining the team....

I think journalists are unintentionally doing a disservice to the Greens’ wealth tax policy when they talk about in a single sentence. RNZ said something along the lines of “income guarantee, and tax changes, including a 2.5% wealth tax”....