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What’s Left?

Written By: advantage - Date published: 12:07 pm, February 25th, 2024 - 51 comments

From Election 2023’s result through to February 2024 there has been massive loss and damage to the Parliamentary capacity of Labour and Greens. Who still has the capacity to lead? What’s left?

Alex Foulkes To Stand For Green Party Co-Leader

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:05 am, February 11th, 2024 - 147 comments

Faulkes describes himself as a staunch Eco-Socialist and trade unionist

Shaw stands down as Greens co-leader

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 11:20 am, January 30th, 2024 - 77 comments

James Shaw has announced that he is standing down as co-leader of the Green Party and a leadership process will be triggered. He will stay on in Parliament in the meantime.

Ghahraman goes

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 12:49 pm, January 16th, 2024 - 77 comments

Green MP Golriz Ghahrahman has resigned from Parliament.

Dirty Politics 2024?

Written By: weka - Date published: 12:50 pm, January 11th, 2024 - 89 comments

Some of the usual suspects… how would we know what is really going on?

Just One Term

Written By: advantage - Date published: 9:06 am, December 2nd, 2023 - 74 comments

There is every reason to believe National will be chucked out in 2026.

The Left Do Not Own Maori

Written By: advantage - Date published: 11:52 am, November 26th, 2023 - 52 comments

Labour, the Greens and liberal parts of the media have not adjusted to the fact that liberal and Maori are different things.

What happened in the Maori seats

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:18 am, November 5th, 2023 - 48 comments

The final results in the Māori electorates clearly indicate that there was a great deal of strategic voting taking place.

NZ Election result

Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 6:03 am, October 17th, 2023 - 45 comments

In parliamentary politics, there are no final victories. After losing the 2023 election, Labour must now immediately focus on winning in 2026.

Why are the Greens so happy?

Written By: weka - Date published: 12:05 pm, October 15th, 2023 - 75 comments

The trad left/right spectrum people are wondering why the Greens are so happy. Didn’t the left just lose?

That was not as good as was hoped for

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:52 am, October 15th, 2023 - 129 comments

Last night was not a good night for the Labour Party …

Down to the wire

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:06 am, October 12th, 2023 - 52 comments

Two new polls were released last night and they both confirm a tightening of the race with the right slumping and the left improving.

Labour surges in latest poll

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 7:55 am, October 11th, 2023 - 82 comments

A new poll has Labour surging into the 30s, Act continuing its decline and National going backward. This election is not over.

Tax or quality public services – which is more important to NZ voters?

Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 10:31 pm, September 27th, 2023 - 16 comments

Earlier this year Andrew Marr wrote in the New Statesmen, that Britain’s problem was that it wanted Scandinavian levels of Public Services and North American levels of taxation. His view was that Britain was overdue for an honest debate about tax and public spending. In New Zealand, there is a similar challenge.

A Green surge and fighting for the election

Written By: weka - Date published: 6:05 am, September 27th, 2023 - 31 comments

Don’t share defeatist bollocks. It tells swing, undecided and habitual non-voters to not bother voting left. Instead, there are still actions that will make a difference over the next three weeks.

Even Mike Hosking thinks that a National-Act-NZ First coalition would be an absolute disaster

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 10:22 am, September 26th, 2023 - 63 comments

As the polls show a further slump in support for the right and as Winston Peters emerges as a kingmaker there is growing concern about the possibility of a real coalition of chaos being elected.

Greens: Climate future of communities on the line this election

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 9:35 am, September 25th, 2023 - 2 comments

“The extreme weather events that Aotearoa has seen this year have been supercharged by climate change. How we go about building resilient and affordable communities that meet everyone’s needs despite the challenges of climate change will be a critical question for the next government. For the Greens, the answer is clear: we must slash our emissions, and take action to protect our homes and communities from extreme weather”

Understanding the New Zealand General Election 2023: Historical trends and perspectives.

Written By: nickkelly - Date published: 6:01 am, September 20th, 2023 - 15 comments

From the outside, the New Zealand 2023 General Election seems both lacklustre and slightly strange. The Labour Government, having won a huge majority in 2020 is now fighting for its political life. Yet National, the main centre-right opposition party is still on average polling significantly worse now than they were when it lost power in 2017.

Green Party confirms plan for five weeks annual leave

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 2:01 pm, September 16th, 2023 - 19 comments

“Everyone should be able to spend quality time with their whānau and friends”

The silver lining of last night’s poll

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 1:56 pm, September 12th, 2023 - 31 comments

The silver lining to last night’s Reid Research poll is that Act’s support is slumping and if there is a change in Government it may not be as extreme as it could have been.

Greens will demand Minister for Oceans and Fisheries to lead ocean rescue plan

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:05 am, September 12th, 2023 - 14 comments

“The Green Party has a rescue plan for the ocean”

The Greens In Real Government in October 2023

Written By: advantage - Date published: 10:21 am, September 11th, 2023 - 21 comments

What happens if the Green Party gets 10% of the vote and the top 9 get in. And say they get to form a government. What would Greens in Cabinet look like?

Can’t we have more charging stations AND the clean car discount?

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 8:09 am, September 7th, 2023 - 18 comments

National’s proposal to increase the number of electric car charging stations is something that should be considered but not at the expense of the extraordinarily successful clean car discount.

The report of our death has been grossly exaggerated

Written By: weka - Date published: 12:34 pm, August 31st, 2023 - 44 comments

Now is not the time to give up, now is the time to work harder at winning.

Labour should not cut spending on climate change

Written By: mickysavage - Date published: 9:06 am, August 30th, 2023 - 22 comments

At a time when the effects of Climate Change are becoming pronounced now is not the time to cut spending on carbon reduction projects.

Eugenie Sage’s farewell

Written By: weka - Date published: 11:14 am, August 25th, 2023 - 7 comments

As always, if you want to understand green politics, listen to what the Green MPs say themselves. This speech is no exception.

Fifteen Green MPs, or more

Written By: weka - Date published: 10:02 am, August 23rd, 2023 - 38 comments

The political courage of the Green Party is paying off.

Greens: free dental care for all

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 6:10 am, August 7th, 2023 - 75 comments

“Under our plan, everyone will be able to keep their teeth healthy, and access treatment when they need it through a new community-based New Zealand Dental Service.”

Should We Worry About Green and Maori Party Taxes?

Written By: advantage - Date published: 7:47 am, July 30th, 2023 - 163 comments

We need to recognise our risk to the capital flight risk of the 1%, but also recognise the benefit to the 99% of us.

Greens: Labour must deliver on No New Mines

Written By: notices and features - Date published: 7:33 pm, July 26th, 2023 - 25 comments

“The Green Party is disappointed tonight that the Government has voted down Eugenie Sage’s members’ bill to stop new mining on conservation land. The time is now for a government that takes conservation seriously.”