It’s the Right Time, for the Wrong Left.
Poor old Labour doubles-down on identity politics, just as democratic-socialism comes back into fashion.
WHY ARE LABOUR’S STRATEGISTS counting on the support of the Greens and Te Pati Māori to heft them into office? Are they not aware that the electorate’s dread of a Labour-Green-TPM coalition government is Kryptonite to the party’s chances of reclaiming power? What is the explanation for Labour’s apparent willingness to hang two heavy millstones around its neck and jump off the electoral bridge?
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