The second irony is that without the ‘rich pricks’, the ability to steal that source of hard-earned income would not be available to them, but this appears completely lost on these money-grabbing politicians. No doubt licking their lips at this prospect, along with other nefarious plans, the party was in a very buoyant mood, according to some buoyant reporting from buoyant journalists in a buoyant left-wing media.
Who remembers Selwyn Toogood and the good old days of It’s in the Bag? Who remembers Selwyn’s line, “What’ll it be customers: the money or the bag”? According to those at the talkfest, the customers have already decided and the answer is it’s both. Money will be thrown around like confetti because they’re convinced the election IS in the bag. Now, I have no wish to prevent these misguided economic protagonists from floating ecstatically along in their rarefied air but a note of caution might be appropriate.
I refer to last year’s American presidential election. The left media had Trump losing in a landslide. The result, as we know, was exactly the opposite. The lesson here was the majority didn’t believe their fake polling and didn’t listen to their fake narrative. It is hilarious now to watch clips of left-wing journalists commencing their evening broadcasts, all smiles, convinced they would be announcing Kamala’s win a few hours later. Their disbelief and facial expressions as the night unfolded was a joy to behold.
The reality was they had convinced very few beyond themselves of what they were certain would be the outcome. This event, more than any other, highlighted the compulsive bias that is forever present in the left media. They just can’t help themselves: it is almost their raison d’être and certainly their undoing. Rather than believe them, people go looking for more objective, reliable, information elsewhere.
This is the note of caution I am sounding for the media here on this occasion. The moistness now emanating from virtually every pore of their skin, the salivating that is causing them to flood their publications with exaggerated misinformation, like the supposed coup on Luxon, is something that might prove to be a cause for future regret. Excitement and fervour expressed too soon can have unintended consequences.
Much as I despair at the state of left-wing journalism here and elsewhere, I am not so cruel as to wish on them a night of horror similar to what the American journalists inflicted upon themselves. The next election is by no means a done deal and the turbulent waters, caused in large part by the Labour Party, are looking like being a lot calmer by November next year. The ship of state should be in better shape.
I am unsure where this buoyancy that is pervading both Labour and their friends in the media is coming from. They have suggested nothing, beyond three free GP visits, that would cause the majority of voters to share in it. It seems to be more of a case of their perception of the coalition’s perceived failings than anything they might have on offer. I think Labour and the media are feeding off each other trying to convince us, the great unwashed, that they will lead us to their version of utopia. God forbid.
Barbara Edmonds, sure to rise to the giddy heights of finance minister should enough people be misled to the point of voting Labour into power, believes raising taxes is the way to grow the economy. You may be sure they’ll be well baked in to the financial recipe she’ll be cooking up. Labour fail to see that real economic growth comes from gains in productivity. In New Zealand’s case, growth comes largely from efficiencies and productivity gains made in the agriculture sector.
The Labour Party’s understanding of economics is highlighted by the headline in a recent article on Centrist – “Labour rejects government’s rate cap as households face rising costs”. Talk about a contradiction in terms! What do they think a rate cap does? It lowers rates, therefore lowering household costs. It beggars belief that these people could get within cooee of the government’s finances.
Taxing for growth is the greatest economic fallacy of the left, globally. The present shining example is Rachel Reeves, the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer. This lady is, in order to appease the large numbers of far-left MPs in her party, steering the country to economic ruin by taxing practically everything that moves (and things that don’t move, such as family homes and farms). The result has been a huge exodus of the wealthy while workers and pensioners are all worse off.
In the song “High Hopes”, a huge hit for Frank Sinatra, he sang of “high apple pie in the sky hopes”, which I think a lot of the current euphoria among the left could turn out to be. Headlines such as the one from Thomas Coughlan in the Herald, “Labour on the cusp of making history but tax wounds will take time to heal”, or from Newsroom’s Tim Murphy, “Labour contemplates the unthinkable, a one term bounce back”, are all premature. I think 2026 will see an economic improvement from 2025.
The reality is, according to the polls, Labour can’t do it on their own and we are only too well aware of who their likely coalition partners are. Frank Sinatra’s last words before he died might just come back to haunt both Labour and their fellow cohorts in the media. He spoke just two words and they were: “I’m losing.”
JC is a right-wing crusader. Reached an age that embodies the dictum only the good die young. This article was first published HERE
Who remembers Selwyn Toogood and the good old days of It’s in the Bag? Who remembers Selwyn’s line, “What’ll it be customers: the money or the bag”? According to those at the talkfest, the customers have already decided and the answer is it’s both. Money will be thrown around like confetti because they’re convinced the election IS in the bag. Now, I have no wish to prevent these misguided economic protagonists from floating ecstatically along in their rarefied air but a note of caution might be appropriate.
I refer to last year’s American presidential election. The left media had Trump losing in a landslide. The result, as we know, was exactly the opposite. The lesson here was the majority didn’t believe their fake polling and didn’t listen to their fake narrative. It is hilarious now to watch clips of left-wing journalists commencing their evening broadcasts, all smiles, convinced they would be announcing Kamala’s win a few hours later. Their disbelief and facial expressions as the night unfolded was a joy to behold.
The reality was they had convinced very few beyond themselves of what they were certain would be the outcome. This event, more than any other, highlighted the compulsive bias that is forever present in the left media. They just can’t help themselves: it is almost their raison d’être and certainly their undoing. Rather than believe them, people go looking for more objective, reliable, information elsewhere.
This is the note of caution I am sounding for the media here on this occasion. The moistness now emanating from virtually every pore of their skin, the salivating that is causing them to flood their publications with exaggerated misinformation, like the supposed coup on Luxon, is something that might prove to be a cause for future regret. Excitement and fervour expressed too soon can have unintended consequences.
Much as I despair at the state of left-wing journalism here and elsewhere, I am not so cruel as to wish on them a night of horror similar to what the American journalists inflicted upon themselves. The next election is by no means a done deal and the turbulent waters, caused in large part by the Labour Party, are looking like being a lot calmer by November next year. The ship of state should be in better shape.
I am unsure where this buoyancy that is pervading both Labour and their friends in the media is coming from. They have suggested nothing, beyond three free GP visits, that would cause the majority of voters to share in it. It seems to be more of a case of their perception of the coalition’s perceived failings than anything they might have on offer. I think Labour and the media are feeding off each other trying to convince us, the great unwashed, that they will lead us to their version of utopia. God forbid.
Barbara Edmonds, sure to rise to the giddy heights of finance minister should enough people be misled to the point of voting Labour into power, believes raising taxes is the way to grow the economy. You may be sure they’ll be well baked in to the financial recipe she’ll be cooking up. Labour fail to see that real economic growth comes from gains in productivity. In New Zealand’s case, growth comes largely from efficiencies and productivity gains made in the agriculture sector.
The Labour Party’s understanding of economics is highlighted by the headline in a recent article on Centrist – “Labour rejects government’s rate cap as households face rising costs”. Talk about a contradiction in terms! What do they think a rate cap does? It lowers rates, therefore lowering household costs. It beggars belief that these people could get within cooee of the government’s finances.
Taxing for growth is the greatest economic fallacy of the left, globally. The present shining example is Rachel Reeves, the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer. This lady is, in order to appease the large numbers of far-left MPs in her party, steering the country to economic ruin by taxing practically everything that moves (and things that don’t move, such as family homes and farms). The result has been a huge exodus of the wealthy while workers and pensioners are all worse off.
In the song “High Hopes”, a huge hit for Frank Sinatra, he sang of “high apple pie in the sky hopes”, which I think a lot of the current euphoria among the left could turn out to be. Headlines such as the one from Thomas Coughlan in the Herald, “Labour on the cusp of making history but tax wounds will take time to heal”, or from Newsroom’s Tim Murphy, “Labour contemplates the unthinkable, a one term bounce back”, are all premature. I think 2026 will see an economic improvement from 2025.
The reality is, according to the polls, Labour can’t do it on their own and we are only too well aware of who their likely coalition partners are. Frank Sinatra’s last words before he died might just come back to haunt both Labour and their fellow cohorts in the media. He spoke just two words and they were: “I’m losing.”
JC is a right-wing crusader. Reached an age that embodies the dictum only the good die young. This article was first published HERE
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