"For all the US' problems, this could never have happened in the US. Because of their First Amendment rights. But in our [UK] system, Parliament is sovereign, and it can basically do what it likes."
#LewisGoodall, 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsNRFTfK0fw
... and the same is true of the NZ Parliament.
#podcasts #BoldPolitics #Bold #ZackPolanski #FreedomOfExpression #FirstAmendment
Towards the end of UK journalist and podcaster Lewis Goodall's appearance on Bold Politics, he gives an analysis of Starmerism that Hipkins and the NZ Labour strategists need to hear;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsNRFTfK0fw
In a nutshell ...
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A small target strategy is an effective way to get elected against an utterly incompetent ultra-conservative incumbent. But the "intellectual work" of developing a coherent plan for fixing things needs to be done before the election. Not made up "on the hoof" once they're in, which is "really hard, to the point of being impossible".
This was the biggest mistake NZ Labour made in 2017. They didn't expect to win, so they didn't have a plan. COVID actually helped them by obscuring that.
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