2020 New Zealand general election & referendums (17 October)

[warandwar]

Judith Collins has been elected National Party leader, with Gerry Brownlee as her deputy.

Both people who were brought in after Don Brash's two Orewa Speeches - Brownlee replaced the spokesperson on Maori affairs after Orewa I and Collins replaced the Social Welfare spokesperson after Orewa II. In both cases, the prior figure didn't support Brash's boomer pakeha politics.

[warandwar]

If NZF are really at 4% now , have to think theyd have a good shot at staying in Parliament, given how they usually trend during a campaign.

[warandwar]

Could more knowledgeable people explain to me why the Maori Party was founded and why after a good run it slumped and lost all seats at the last election?

They were founded after the foreshore and seabed issue, when the Labour government decided to take away land that Maoris had a right to. Despite Don Brash running a pro-apartheid campaign, the Maori Party had a secret deal with him and they became closely tied to National.

[warandwar]

Interesting how’s there’s no party running to the left of the greens, Marxism isn’t fanciful in NZ?

Depends on who you talk to in the Maori Party. Their new MP was certainly running to the Left in a way.

[warandwar]

In many ways, a victory for nothing. Probably the least consequential government since Shipley. And yet a landslide for a Jacinda-centric campaign.

[warandwar]

Interesting how’s there’s no party running to the left of the greens, Marxism isn’t fanciful in NZ?

Marxism, Maoism to be specific, was and is fanciful but confined to extraparliamentary fights, due to the peculiar circumstances of the settler state. Many don't wsnt to engage in what they see as pakeha politics. Militancy continues, a land occupation every now and then. Just a few years ago, police raided an alleged guerilla training camp.