Opinion - Christopher Luxon is now being openly mocked and ridiculed by political commentators for his failure to achieve a coalition government, writes Bryce Edwards.
Green Party should be in there offering National an alternative to Winnie’s madness and trying to get Act as far away from power as possible… but they won’t
There is no world in which the Green Party should go into coalition with this version of the National Party. There are far too many completely opposite policy desires and doing so would destroy the party, as it nearly did to Te Pati Maori.
I was thinking about this some more. Realistically the most logical policy wise coalition would be for National to ditch the remaining right-right wing elements that haven’t already gone to Act, and “Labour” to ditch whatever remains of their left wing elements and form a grand coalition of the centre-right.
Apart from their enduring antagonism towards each other, those two lumps of the parties are actually not particularly distinguishable on the really big economic issues; and it would only really be if the National religious fundamentalists could hold their nose for some of the more liberal social issues.
But you don’t hear calls for National & Labour to form a coalition like you do National-Greens because everybody knows it’d trash both parties support. But the same thing applies to National-Green the commentariat just chooses to pretend it doesn’t, maybe they’re trolling I dunno?
Green Party should be in there offering National an alternative to Winnie’s madness and trying to get Act as far away from power as possible… but they won’t
There is no world in which the Green Party should go into coalition with this version of the National Party. There are far too many completely opposite policy desires and doing so would destroy the party, as it nearly did to Te Pati Maori.
I was thinking about this some more. Realistically the most logical policy wise coalition would be for National to ditch the remaining right-right wing elements that haven’t already gone to Act, and “Labour” to ditch whatever remains of their left wing elements and form a grand coalition of the centre-right.
Apart from their enduring antagonism towards each other, those two lumps of the parties are actually not particularly distinguishable on the really big economic issues; and it would only really be if the National religious fundamentalists could hold their nose for some of the more liberal social issues.
But you don’t hear calls for National & Labour to form a coalition like you do National-Greens because everybody knows it’d trash both parties support. But the same thing applies to National-Green the commentariat just chooses to pretend it doesn’t, maybe they’re trolling I dunno?