New polling from 1News-Verian shows a Green surge and the left bloc able to win government - presuming National refuses to work with the Opportunity Party.
TOP feels more like a slightly different version of National. Same corporate and landlordy over-focus and I expect them to erode the democratic process in the same manner as National.
If you’re suffering from the cost of living crisis, want a functional democracy that gives you services for your tax dollars instead of distributing them to their donors, TOP has little to offers besides the same old trickle down. Too often they voted for the same crap as National did.
The thing Luxon has failed to see, is that a small party like Opportunity does not get to implement all their policies. There’s no way National would go for this policy, it’s a pretty firmly left wing policy. But they can work with Opportunity on other policies. That’s why they have a bunch that cover all their bases.
Yep no way in hell is the smallest minor coalition partner going to get to redesign the tax system, lol
Even if the bigger party in the coalition is Labour instead of National. Tax is just too fundamental - minor parties get a few crumbs, the main party gets the core stuff - finance, health, education.
Still I love how TOP has put UBI on the map, it gives Luxon the willies and makes him behave irrationally which is a win.
Not sure what you mean. TOP have never voted, they haven’t been in parliament.
The idea of TOP is to give something that is an alternative to NZ First. I don’t agree that their policies are a version of National, for one all their policies that I’ve seen have some sort of evidence rather than the vibe-governing that National does. But they aren’t there to replace Greens, they are there to try to work with either side. They need policies that either side would work with.
TOP feels more like a slightly different version of National. Same corporate and landlordy over-focus and I expect them to erode the democratic process in the same manner as National. If you’re suffering from the cost of living crisis, want a functional democracy that gives you services for your tax dollars instead of distributing them to their donors, TOP has little to offers besides the same old trickle down. Too often they voted for the same crap as National did.
No, TOP is offering universal basic income. https://www.opportunity.org.nz/tax-reset
That’s revolutionary. That is why National cannot work with them.
According to the tax reset calculator on that page, my household would be $22k better off each year. That’s substantial. Give it a try.
The thing Luxon has failed to see, is that a small party like Opportunity does not get to implement all their policies. There’s no way National would go for this policy, it’s a pretty firmly left wing policy. But they can work with Opportunity on other policies. That’s why they have a bunch that cover all their bases.
Yep no way in hell is the smallest minor coalition partner going to get to redesign the tax system, lol
Even if the bigger party in the coalition is Labour instead of National. Tax is just too fundamental - minor parties get a few crumbs, the main party gets the core stuff - finance, health, education.
Still I love how TOP has put UBI on the map, it gives Luxon the willies and makes him behave irrationally which is a win.
Not sure what you mean. TOP have never voted, they haven’t been in parliament.
The idea of TOP is to give something that is an alternative to NZ First. I don’t agree that their policies are a version of National, for one all their policies that I’ve seen have some sort of evidence rather than the vibe-governing that National does. But they aren’t there to replace Greens, they are there to try to work with either side. They need policies that either side would work with.
What are you talking about? They’ve never been in government, they haven’t voted for anything in the past.
Right? What are they on about?