I wrote an article on Mamdani and the Greens and what us revolutionary leftists can learn from them #nzpol #Mamdani #Greens #communist #socialist #anarchist open.substack.com/pub/kaimataa...

The fact Labour havent forced Hipkins to resign immediately says more about the Party as a whole than it does of Hipkins NOT apologising live on the 6pm news last night

"Most voters don’t need convincing the system is broken – they need inspiration that it can be fixed. The ideas dismissed as “undeliverable” are the very ones we most require." Hope you're listening, Mr Hipkins. You need to work with the Greens, not against them. #nzpol

Hipkins dreams of another outright majority, but it will only ever be a dream.

The Left is always right too early HT @kaimataara.bsky.social #nzpol

It makes you feel like the crazy one fr

Imma need the Green Party to win so many fucking seats the next election and force the Labour Party and chippy to come crawling on his knees to form a coalition government. Fuck this.

Luxon, Mitchell, and Hipkins all failed to apologise in the House to Tamatha Paul today for their derogatory comments about her stating that police on the streets doesn't make people feel safe, and Tamatha has too much grace and class to demand it. #OneTermGovernment #nzpol

I have written to my MP suggesting that Hipkins would do well to steal a march on Luxon and Mitchell and show some leadership by apologising to Tamatha ASAP.

As shown by Tamatha Paul, The issue with being a leftist is you're right most of the time. But you're always right too early. People go from being mad at you to agreeing with you in hindsight. #nzpol #leftist

I swear our parliament is a kitchen, a sentient egg vs a a sentient slice of white bread.

Luxon & Hipkins... who looks stupid and in la la land now . #nzpol

Luxon leading the preferred PM poll. Fuck that’s depressing. But I suppose when he’s up against Hipkins, then not massively surprised.

If the next election is too close to call at this point, with the absolute casserole of clusterfuckery that is the current, Luxon-led, govt, then I strongly suggest that Labour get their heads out of their arses and DO SOMETHING

GET RID OF CHIPPY. McAnulty needs to take the reigns. Hipkins inspires nothing in anyone. If we want to actually save this country, we need inspiration. #nzpol

Hipkins is the most ineffective leader of the opposition I’ve seen in what feels like decades. So so very many opportunities pissed away

Tamatha Paul OWNED the chamber today and it was powerful. Didn't even need to say "I told you so". Just got down to business.

Chippy and co keep punching left when they should be targeting aaaalllll of the shitfuckery the CoC is bringing us on the daily. Serve ‘em right if it bit them in the ass next year, but that won’t do the rest of us any good.

what we learned from the new york mayoralty race was that people will vote for genuine left wing option if that option is presented to them. hipkins otoh has once again managed to out-cringe luxon with this craven utterance

centrist chris hipkins a socialist?? don't make me laugh

yeah, just not comfortable actually BEING one; this is pretty dire PR management from chippo www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

“A few bad apples” is always used to deflect criticism of systemic problems in NZ. Schopenhauer’s entropy is a more realistic way to think about it: “If you put a spoonful of wine in a barrel full of sewage, you get sewage. If you put a spoonful of sewage in a barrel full of wine, you get sewage.”

Zing!

Dripkins is as much of a Socialist as Sir Keir, Tory in a red tie

Chris Hipkins is not a socialist. An agenda that keeps the neoliberal status quo is nowhere close to socialism. That shouldn't be surprising, given that Labour kick-started the neoliberal reforms of the 1980s. So who can hold them accountable? Well... there's always the @greens.org.nz #nzpol

Yeah? Well I'm not comfortable labelling Hipkins a socialist. A socialist would have implemented the WEAG's recommendations. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

Socialist eh bsky.app/profile/kaim...

Imagine if Labour brought this energy to opposing the right wing parties currently in government? www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/... But then again racist neoliberal Labour have more in common with ACT, NZ First and National than they do either of the actual left wing parties.

Sadly this sounds much like the NZ Labour Party under Chippy’s watch. #nzpol

it's my view that hipkins would prefer a coalition with nz first over the greens. he could dispel this notion by categorically stating that a coalition with nz first is off the table. as far as i'm aware he has so far refused to rule this out.

Labour: Let’s Do This… OK, Maybe Not Actually Do This, But Tell Everyone We Think We Might Be Able To Something in the General Vicinity. Just not catchy.

how to win elections from that context is closer to a pitched battle at the end of a damaging war ffs, get all the can't be bothered voters on board now i don' mind if ACT NAT NZF strategists see this, we outnumber your supporters exponentially #nzpol

So, you just held the gun to your foot and pulled the trigger, huh? "Oh. We don't mind throwing a potential coalition partner under the bus. We'll be fine next year without them." Next year - "Oh no, we don't have enough numbers to form a govt..." #nzpol

Hipkins is the most beige unimaginative centrist they could find He doesn't inspire anything other than depression We've seen what an inspirational Labour leader can do, by contrast, Hipkins is the opposite

yes, it's a done deal if "someone" can stop the inter-necine badgering getting involved in other party's internal politics is just crass at this point in the electoral cycle, that's shooting yourself in the foot behaviour #nzpol

And Labour WILL negotiate with TPM if TPM has the votes to make a coalition. Labour - Hipkins - is negging TPM and Greens in hopes of skimming left votes instead of joining forces. 😪 TPM not ready to govern? Hipkins wasn't either even when it was gifted to him. Phoenix better rise fast! #nzpol

Hipkins 2025: TPM is not fit to govern NZ public in 2023: Hipkins is not fit to govern

It's funny to see Americans talking about how backwards the Berlin wall was without any sense of self awareness.

Chris still proving he has never liked TPM since he was an advisor for Helen Clark and Trevor Mallard during the Foreshore Act. Notice how just like he did with Tamatha Paul in the Greens he only ever goes harshly after Māori on the left and not Pākehā. E.g. treating Tamatha way worse than JAG.

Sorry, Hipkins *was* asked for his view.

So a decent human being who believes in decent human society one NYC Mayority over big money fascism who dont ever give a fuck about you YOU HEAR THAT NZ LABOUR?

Taps Mic 'yo NZ Labour'

Okay now nz labour stop looking at uk labour and look at Mamdani instead of

Finished my most recent article. open.substack.com/pub/kaimataa... #nzpol #socialism

Folks inside Australian Labor just recently announced “Labor Tribune”: a bloc of Marxists inside the (very right wing) Australian Labor Party with the goal of un-right-winging it. Could be a project to watch. labortribune.net.au

I want him to lead already just fricken roll Hipkins already Hipkins is fine but too mild We don’t want mild Labour we want tasty socialist Labour Have you seen how easy it was for Mamdani to win on a socialist platform? Could happen here but you gotta actually promise to DO STUFF & HELP PEOPLE

Yo Hipkins and Labour Stop being Centrist and stop chasing votes from the Right They are never going to support you and you just piss off everyone else

This says more about Hipkins than it does about the NZ Institute.

Attention NZ Labour party and Chris Hipkins.