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submitted 5 days ago by rimu@piefed.social to c/politics

The party's 'Affordable Kai' policy would also expand free school lunches and set up a publicly owned KiwiMart supermarket.

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[-] Fizz -3 points 5 days ago

God the greens are so bad it'd actually be funny if we weren't heading towards a global recession.

The greens have no real solutions to the issues. Its always just endless hollow populism. They always come out with a dumb plan to "solve" an issue and its always just throwing way to much money at the problem. We have hundreds of pages of investigation into supermarkets. The issue isnt that they're charging to much. And if 6 billion if how much you want to allocate to the problem you can do a lot better than buying 120 supermarkets.

It should be illegal to run a campaign this slopulist. Its so ghoulish and it promotes a political race to the bottom. Politicians have to campaign on feel good simple solutions to appeal to the dumbest members of society -> our country gets worse -> More simple solutions more scapegoating -> No politician honestly campaigns on what their government intends to do. -> we get an authoritarian usurping control.

The most depressing part is knowing people will hear this and think they are cooking. At the most pivotal time in our history our only competent party will be bogged down by activists for 3 years before getting absolutely crushed by the right after they use the greens to attack labour.

[-] rimu@piefed.social 3 points 5 days ago

The party said its plan would cost about $2.8b.

Not sure where your 6 billion thing is coming from?

I look forward to other parties putting forward ideas for bringing down the price of food. But I'm not holding my breath.

this post was submitted on 06 Sep 2026
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