Who will be the next Labour leader?

[Bob Kane]

lol
With 23,000 views I guess there's some entertainment value.
A bit like slowing down as you pass a car accident.

[PTILoveYou]

So Labour is still leaderless??

[muppet]

Leaderless and rudderless.

[eri]

and

accountant-less

[Perry]

Is that the same as "I see red?"

[speights boy]

Fear not....no one would be silly enough to vote for this list.

[Perry]

Fear not....no one would be silly enough to vote for this list.

Your faith in the IQ of the wider
NZ constituency is touching.

[donna]

Wow I am surprised the Kapiti Expressway made it onto that list. It would be scary to see any of them as PM.

cheers,

donna

[speights boy]

Cunliffe outlines his vision as PM

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The Employment Relations Amendment Bill, currently before Parliament, would be repealed "by lunchtime", Mr Cunliffe said.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."

[PTILoveYou]

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.

[donna]

....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

[PTILoveYou]

....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.

[Perry]

What do recent events in Oz
tell us about voter sentiment?

[eri]

^

that the populous

saves the right to be divided

for itself

gov. is expected to be unified

really unified

and not a collection of back-stabbers

with false smiles

[eri]

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'.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/ar...ectid=11129882