The unnecessary 2nd-phase of the #Covid enquiry seems to have said what everyone already knew: We could have done better if we knew then what we knew now.
#National now has to convince us that #JacindaArdern & #ChrisHipkins willingly ignored the Govt's many reliable psychics & prognosticators
#nzpol
I'm often frustrated with Hipkins, but he makes an important point here;
"... 20,000 fewer jobs in the construction sector than there were on election day 2 years ago ... where have [those workers] gone? Well, a whole chunk of them have left the country, and some of them have ended up on a Jobseeker benefit. So we're paying them to sit at home, when we could have been paying them to build the future of the country."
#ChrisHipkins, NZ Labour leader, 2025
For those who think Jack Tame is biased against the right because he regularly exposes right-wing politicians and their bullshit non-answers, here he is doing exactly the same thing to Chris Hipkins;
https://m.soundcloud.com/qandanz/chris-hipkins-will-capital-gains-tax-have-unfair-outcomes
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"...the Charter School model is just totally, fundamentally flawed. Labour will repeal the Charter School model, we'll deal with any schools that have been established in the meantime on a case-by-case basis ..."
#ChrisHipkins, NZ Labour leader, 2025
This is the kind of bottom line we need to hear more of from Labour. "Charter Schools" can be converted to Special Character schools, just like the last lot.
#podcasts #WaateaNews #BradburyGroup #education #CharterSchools
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"So of course spineless jellyfish Chris Hipkins doesn't want to. Oh, he agrees the punishment is "too extreme", but he says Labour is "pretty unlikely" to filibuster the debate. So, he's going to take the leverage the Speaker handed him to force the government to compromise and adopt a more appropriate penalty, and he's going to do... nothing."
@norightturnnz, 2025
https://norightturn.blogspot.com/2025/05/which-side-are-you-on-labour.html
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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.
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