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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 6 months ago

"... I increasingly see [politics] in terms of social justice, inequality, not really addressing poverty in our country, not really addressing the homeless ... I would have loved to see a Labour government come in that [centres] those things ... and one if the reasons I'm underwhelmed, to be honest, is that it does feel a bit austerity-lite, and not a million miles from where Cameron's conservatives were."

#RoryStewart, 2025

https://alastaircampbell.org/2025/05/question-time-has-the-us-underestimated-china/

#podcasts #GoalHanger #TheRestIsPolitics

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp 6 months ago

I know the feeling. I was underwhelmed with the last Labour government, and even more underwhelmed with the party under Hipkins.

But it's easy to blame the government. Politicians do what they want to do, within the limits of what they can they can get away with. How can we - the people - make governments confident they can get away with abandoning austerity politics for wellbeing politics. And they can't get away with trying to breath life into the charred remains of neoliberal corporatism.

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