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At the Wellington meeting of the leadership campaign on Saturday, attended by about 600 party members, Mr Cunliffe said the union support would be rewarded with "radical" employment law changes.
This would include industry-standard employment agreements, raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour within 100 days of forming a government, giving the "living wage" of $18 an hour to core public servants, "and rolling out [the living wage] as we can afford to after that".
The Employment Relations Amendment Bill, currently before Parliament, would be repealed "by lunchtime", Mr Cunliffe said.
"That's bedrock David Cunliffe social democratic Labour policy. That is going to happen."
Whoever the next labour party leader is, he will be sacked soon after 2014 general elections to make way for a new leader to contest the 2017 elections.
....and that new leader will be Jacinta (I suggest) - it's a shame (or a blessing) they don't give her the experience of going through an Election so she stands a chance in 4 years from now. I see National in for the next two terms and Key maybe beating Clarke's record tenure as PM.
....and that new leader will be Jacinta (I suggest) - it's a shame (or a blessing) they don't give her the experience of going through an Election so she stands a chance in 4 years from now. I see National in for the next two terms and Key maybe beating Clarke's record tenure as PM.
cheers,
Donna
Great empires always fall due to a good leader turn bad (or dead), so as long as Key lives on, and he doesn't stuff up like what the Greens did to Helen Clark (anti-smacking bill etc), then Key will definitely beat Helen for the record.
CGT should the least of property investors worries if labour get in next election
they'll bring it in but it will only really stop traders
and not get anywhere near the money they need to pay-off their voters
what they will be looking for is new wealth taxes which are harder to duck than income taxes
and the easiest target would be land that is valued and rated by councils
so you may end up paying $2000pa for rates
and another $2000?pa as a land tax
of course "native title land" will somehow be excluded
this will be VERY contentious for property investors who are carrying millions of $ debt and will be stretched as interest rates rise
so they will be given time to sell off their portfolios to deserving labour voters Vance says that Cunliffe will 'go hard on National over inequality' but is also intending to leverage the latest leftwing intellectual theory: pre-distribution, which Vance says 'favours the taxation of wealth over income'.
Look out for this fashionable theory being bandied about by Labour. The British Observer recently published The Rules - a humorous and insightful translation of modern Labour-style jargon and theory. It defines pre-distribution like this: 'Trying to compensate for the failures of capitalism without raising the tax burden on middle-class voters too much'.
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