Luxon and Hipkins: Plotting a Grand Coalition to Sideline the Radicals?
If the polls tighten further, don’t be surprised if the grand coalition talk turns into reality. New Zealand politics just got a whole lot more cynical.
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The joke at the moment across the Western democracies is that you’re often seeing coalitions in all but name via the so-called “uni-party” where parties simply exchange power but maintain the same overall policies. People have had a gutsful of their votes changing nothing in their lives.
TPM Is Failing Its People
The people walking out are the ones who tried to challenge that axis and lost.
The Sting in the India Trade Deal
That is the real issue raised by this agreement: not trade, but whether constitutional change in New Zealand will occur by democratic choice or by political stealth.
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Pauline Pisses with the Big Boys
One Nation’s budget reply speech is sign of the new political reality.
Too Little, Too Late, as Coalition Talks Tough at Last
The coalition’s new immigration policy smells like desperately grabbing at One Nation’s coattails.
