National and NZ First up, coalition would get second term https://www.byteseu.com/902885/ #1newsRecommends #ACTParty #ChloeSwarbrick #ChrisHipkins #ChristopherLuxon #DavidSeymour #DebbieNgarewaPacker #GreenParty #LabourParty #MaramaDavidson #NationalParty #NewZealand #NewZealandFirst #Politics #RawiriWaititi #TePatiMaori #VerianPoll #WinstonPeters
https://www.europesays.com/1976926/ National and NZ First up, coalition would get second term #1newsRecommends #ActParty #ChloeSwarbrick #ChrisHipkins #ChristopherLuxon #DavidSeymour #DebbieNgarewaPacker #GreenParty #LabourParty #MaramaDavidson #NationalParty #NewZealand #NewZealandFirst #Politics #RawiriWaititi #TePatiMaori #VerianPoll #WinstonPeters
I didn't stop to transcribe the exact quote. But Hipkins said that when he gives interviews, his target audience is the person who voted Labour in 2020, but switched to the Nats in 2024;
I have thoughts.
First, this dogma clashes directly with his more nuanced comment earlier in the podcast. That the centre is *not* the space between the two biggest parties, but rather the space of the uncommitted voter.
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"Inequality is a massive contributor to government costs. So ... if you get the economy rejigged, so that the playing field tilts a bit more towards equality, then government costs go down."
#ChrisHipkins, 2024
'Leveling the playing field' was a key message of the 1980s/90s coup. But as Hipkins says, if we care about democracy we don't *want* the economic playing field to be level. We want it slanted towards those with the least.
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"What we need to do is convince NZers that there is an alternative approach to managing the economy to the one that we've had for the last 30 or 40 years."
#ChrisHipkins, 2024
This a good start. But I want to see every Labour spokesperson giving speeches describing exactly how their portfolio has been conceptualised since Rogernomics and Ruthenasia, how it's failed, and how their approach would be fundamentally different.
Record high for Te Pāti Māori, coalition still in driving seat https://www.byteseu.com/548223/ #1newsRecommends #ACTParty #ChloeSwarbrick #ChrisHipkins #ChristopherLuxon #DavidSeymour #DebbieNgarewaPacker #GreenParty #LabourParty #MaramaDavidson #NationalParty #NewZealand #NewZealandFirst #Politics #RawiriWaititi #TePatiMaori #VerianPoll #WinstonPeters
My cartoon for today's https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/350328090/cartoon-july-2
Labour where are you?! Some MP's have been fighting the opposition but the main dude, well, tumble weed springs to mind...
A good summary of what recent housing policy changes add up to;
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"If you look at what this government have done, right, so they've dialed back the state house building program, they just cut half a billion $ out of that last week in the budget."
#ChrisHipkins, 2024
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/pat-brittenden/episodes/BHN-Chris-Hipkins-LIVE--Nicola-Willis-on-QA--TPU-Beehive-Stunt-e2kfoni
My cartoon in today's @thepostnz @thepress_nz @waikatotimesnz and other @nzstuff owned papers
Hipkins gave his State of the Nation speech over the weekend. Taxes of all sorts are back on the table...
#NzPol #LabourParty #ChrisHipkins #Caricature #PoliticalCartoon #EditorialCartoon #Cartoon #CarDrifting #Aotearoa #NewZealand
https://www.thepost.co.nz/nz-news/350225246/cartoon-tuesday-march-26
"There hasn't been a multi-leaders debate since about 2002, because I think in the leaders’ debates people do want to see the people who could credibly be prime minister after the election."
https://www.thepress.co.nz/a/politics/350084495/election-2023-press-debate-back-double-leaders
The entitlement this smacks of, is why the combined LabsNats vote has hit record lows. Unless the election is rigged, any party leader could be the PM if that's what we, the citizens, decide when we vote.
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Voters in New Zealand election ousted the party once led by Jacinda Ardern and elected the country’s most right-wing government in a generation. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/10/15/asia-pacific/politics/new-zealand-conservative-government/?utm_content=buffer3cd74&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #asiapacific #politics #newzealand #christopherluxon #chrishipkins #jacindaardern
At least increased booze prices only affect those who actually buy it. You know what else will cost the average household Chris? Rates rises to cover the cost of councils continuing to pay for the collection and recycling of container waste produced by alcohol corporations. #FacePalm
"It will add a small cost to the average household and we don't want to be imposing additional costs on families at this time."
#ChrisHipkins, 2023
My cartoon in today's @NZStuff and in print @DomPost @waikatotimes
Prime Minister Chris (Chippy) Hipkins has only been in the job for five weeks! Definitely a baptism of fire 
My cartoon in today's The Dominion Post & online @NZStuff
Parliament gets back to work this week... Good luck with getting any clearer information or details from the opposition.
