The quote of"it took years to rebuild trust in police" really just says that the so-called "rebuilt" trust was completely misplaced.

Chris Hipkins getting outflanked from the left by Andrew fucking Little.

What is this world coming to...

This is just another page in the play book of libertarianism: austerity to the point that the services fall over, and then get rid of the program completely because it doesn't work.

It DID work when Labour funded it. It did need more funding, but at least kids weren't eating literal rot and mould.

Very cool, but it's kind of sad that it's an FPGA implementation.

I think by saying it doesn't include water charges it is talking about areas that have a separate water charge (pay per unit of usage etc).

This should be a day one priority for Labour, to restore the school lunch program back to exactly how it was when they left power.

Anything less than that is a capitulation by Hipkins showing that he doesn't really care.

How many more natural disasters do we need to experience and pay out for before we actually take seriously the fact that the people who are victimised the most by climate change are the same rockapes who keep voting in the very parties who insist on policy that hurts them the most?

Never forget what a disaster Keys asset sales of our power companies has been.

Record high energy prices, and stagnant critical infrastructure upgrades, and barely any new generation from those companies since they were sold.

Hell no.

Tepid tinkering and centrism all in order to minimise attacks from the right, meanwhile they are attacking them anyway for their tax policy.

Labour just need to have a bit of a spine and actually stand for something.

Very Andrew Cuomo-esque, saying that he shouldn't have resigned despite being a piece of ****.

This is where RWers are these days. No accountability, no shame.

And yet Trump still gets to take credit for this "ceasefire", and the media still plays defence for the Israel Occupying Force.

The whole economy is reliant on house prices rising without fail. I don't see how this is a gotcha.

Because Labour are centrist neo-libs and always need to water down good policies to keep people (who never planned to and never will vote for them) happy.

They won't be happy regardless of what they do, so they might as well have actually released a policy with some teeth.

If people like Lee Vandervis who is once again campaigning to go back to FPP don't like how STV works, they need to stop appealing to the dumbest voters who don't understand how this system works.

To vote STV, you rank the LEAST likely candidate #1, and the MOST likely candidate last.