Getting adequate funding to win government in any country is as ancient a practise as sex and taxes. Labour do need to address their funding ability big time. Has Tim Barnett and Moira Coatsworth been sacked yet for their abysmal fundraising efforts?
If Labour ever succeed in their we-want-state-funding strategy to fund their campaigns, which Mike Williams and Labour have been pushing for years, the public backlash will result in yet another Labour loss. The unions control labour so why can't they fork out?
His reputation as a true journalist (if he ever had one) is shot as far as I am concerned. I think the Oxford Dictionary would do well in replacing the word hypocrite with hager.
When I want a product or service then I want to speak to someone who can offer me a solution and/or a way forward.
What I most definitely do not want is to speak to someone who just keeps telling me that their competitors are useless. It puts me, and every one else I know, right off.
I invariably elect not to deal with any organisation whose representatives keep criticising those they compete with, and it appears 75% of the voting public think the same way.
If Labour can get on with the business of what they can and will do
and drop this idea of continuously bagging National then my support for Labour might one day be renewed.
The trouble is the traditional union culture and the current union control of Labour. The traditional tactic employed by unions throughout the centuries is one of bullish thuggery and putting their opponents down, and Labour's 2014 election approach had all the hallmarks.
Labour need to adapt or die, and it might surprise you to know that I don't actually want Labour to perish.
I would prefer National to have a sizeable and credible opposition party with the financial means to oppose, and that is not the case at present in all three aspects... size, credibility, and money.
The money aspect comes back to the funding issue addressed at the top of this post, and Labour with their union control and current mindset cannot bring themselves to go cap-in-hand to the big corporates for funding, thus causing their own demise.
Maybe Labour in NZ can take a leaf out of Jim Murphy's book. Jim is the newly elected leader of the Scottish Labour Party. Here's what he has to say:
"The majority are fulfilled, getting on, getting by, being successful.
A minority are falling behind, denied opportunity, trapped, unable to escape the hardship of their upbringing.
"That inequality is wrong and it is my driving purpose, it is our driving purpose, it is the Scottish Labour Party's driving purpose to end that type of inequality once and for all."
Mr Murphy said the best way to tackle poverty was to boost the economy.
"The most effective anti poverty measure is a successful economy," he said.
"It's about backing businesses, it's about creating jobs, because if redistribution is our aim, which it is, then we need more wealth not less. We want more entrepreneurs, not fewer. A growing middle class that more families are able to join.
"The debate about how we spend our wealth starts with how we earn it."
IMHO Labour in Scotland are in with a good chance.
Reference published 3 days ago...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/poli...ty-leader.html