The topic that you will never hear mentioned is that of governance. Specifically, their method of governance. In a democracy, a government is voted in by the people for the people. The government is a servant of those who put them there. While individual policies are part of the determining factor in electing a government, equally important is the overarching method of how they govern.
The recent report on how Labour handled the Covid pandemic illustrates this to a T. Without any thought, consideration or due process, they just locked us all up. We were encouraged to snitch on each other. Even the normal practices of relieving ourselves of human waste was restricted. It appears no apology is forthcoming from then Covid minister and now leader of the Labour Party Chris Hipkins. He can therefore forget about winning Auckland at the next election and that means the election is gone.
While Labour ignore the elephant in the room, their chances of winning the next election are slim. That fact is obvious before we even talk about the other negatives holding them back. The first of these is intelligence as a cursory glance shows them up as not being the brightest lights in the House. Their mindset is mired in tax and spend and not much else and yet again they are agonising over whether to introduce a capital gains tax or a wealth tax.
They appear to be taking aim at landlords again. This obsession with the ‘politics of envy’ is not helpful when trying to win over the voters. It is a strand of the nastiness streak which pervades all left-wing parties and it is not something that endears themselves to voters. Their lack of ability to make decisions in most policy areas means very little is achieved.
Then there are their coalition partners, who the majority of voters don’t want a bar of. The Greens’ policies defy reality and they have morphed into nothing more than a protest party supporting causes most of the electorate are against, while the Māori Party are only interested in feathering their own nests and are completely out of step with public opinion.
These are the people Labour will have to coalesce with, posing yet another elephant in the room. They may not like to address it but the voters will not countenance them. Hipkins can talk all he likes about reaching a broader cross section of the public and spending more time in Auckland, but it will count for nothing unless the party addresses the real issues preventing them from gaining the Treasury benches.
Their reasons for not doing so are no doubt because any change of stance would be in direct conflict with their ideology. A lengthy time in opposition awaits.
JC is a right-wing crusader. Reached an age that embodies the dictum only the good die young. This article was first published HERE
The recent report on how Labour handled the Covid pandemic illustrates this to a T. Without any thought, consideration or due process, they just locked us all up. We were encouraged to snitch on each other. Even the normal practices of relieving ourselves of human waste was restricted. It appears no apology is forthcoming from then Covid minister and now leader of the Labour Party Chris Hipkins. He can therefore forget about winning Auckland at the next election and that means the election is gone.
While Labour ignore the elephant in the room, their chances of winning the next election are slim. That fact is obvious before we even talk about the other negatives holding them back. The first of these is intelligence as a cursory glance shows them up as not being the brightest lights in the House. Their mindset is mired in tax and spend and not much else and yet again they are agonising over whether to introduce a capital gains tax or a wealth tax.
They appear to be taking aim at landlords again. This obsession with the ‘politics of envy’ is not helpful when trying to win over the voters. It is a strand of the nastiness streak which pervades all left-wing parties and it is not something that endears themselves to voters. Their lack of ability to make decisions in most policy areas means very little is achieved.
Then there are their coalition partners, who the majority of voters don’t want a bar of. The Greens’ policies defy reality and they have morphed into nothing more than a protest party supporting causes most of the electorate are against, while the Māori Party are only interested in feathering their own nests and are completely out of step with public opinion.
These are the people Labour will have to coalesce with, posing yet another elephant in the room. They may not like to address it but the voters will not countenance them. Hipkins can talk all he likes about reaching a broader cross section of the public and spending more time in Auckland, but it will count for nothing unless the party addresses the real issues preventing them from gaining the Treasury benches.
Their reasons for not doing so are no doubt because any change of stance would be in direct conflict with their ideology. A lengthy time in opposition awaits.
JC is a right-wing crusader. Reached an age that embodies the dictum only the good die young. This article was first published HERE
3 comments:
Maybe Labour is in cuckoo land, but a coalition of them the Greens and TPM are ahead of combined National, ACT and NZ First in the polls. There will be tireless and relentless promotion of the former in the mainstream media between now and the election. A continuation of the current government after 2026 is not guaranteed.
Labour is a bad joke but a much more dangerous reality - given the voting power of the gullible.
We have had 3 polls this week suggesting we are on the cusp of an extreme Marxist Government in 2025. We have reached this point in part through the ideological agenda of the media but National aren't reading the mood of the nation over Healthcare. National have been pitching the taxation of some charities which will see them booted out of office if they pursue that idea.
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