by frog
The Greens and the Progressives both launched their election campaigns in Auckland yesterday, and the message coming out of both of them was: we’re ready to be part of a Labour-led Government. The LPG combination, as some have taken to calling it, is a coalition-in-waiting, said Radio New Zealand political editor Kathryn Ryan this morning.
It’s heartening to hear Jim Anderton saying he could be part of a three-way coalition with Labour and the Greens. On current polling, the LPG bloc is around three seats short of a majority, so we have a challenge ahead. Our goal: to form a government with progressive policies which saves Labour from having to depend on NZ First.
The contrast with the warring parties on the right – National, Act and NZ First – is striking…
Photo credit: John Collie.
Published in Campaign by frog on Mon, August 15th, 2005
Tags: environment
on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
In contrast with the warring parties on the right…NZ First…you keep telling Helen that.
ACT does not regard the Greens as a natural coalition partner. Never has. The same can be said of NZ First. A party to fight on several fundamental issues, just as the Greens and Labour are a party to fight on several key issues.
Nice to see you paint NZ First that way. If Helen does a deal with Winston, you can be just as outraged as an ACT voter.
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what your man wearing a black shirt and tie fo fwwog, wheres the pansy pink braces, you tellim only fascists get to wear black shirt, but we donts have those frilly green flower thing over where our shoulder gun belt hides,
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