Yeah, I'm very critical of Labour because they're socially Left, but through electoral fear tend to economically right. If you work through their recent record its been some wins for workers on the employment rights levels without fundamental changes to the neo-liberal economic system which is slowly but surely impoverishing their base.

I agree re NZ First, and they're more populist than anything else which means they could land anywhere at any given election, but most of their voting base is still at the greypower end which tends towards more right wing socially & economically.

[–] Dave 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For NZ First I honestly feel like there are more young NZ First voters than there have been my whole life.

It just sucks that people are so disenchanted by life that they vote for the guy saying how bad things are instead of trying to learn about the individual problems and voting for people trying to solve those problems.

[–] TagMeInSkipIGotThis 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah it sucks, traditionally you'd think Winston would curb the worst of the Right's economic impulses at the expense of socially liberal policy, but it sorta seems now that he's traded all these culture war "wins" his base want for almost nothing apart from his MFAT toy.