McCarten’s resolutions

Matt McCarten has some amusing, and generally sensible, NY resolutions for the various political parties:

National

1. Thank God each morning for John Key. He’s unassailable.

4. Admit the party’s economic policy of borrowing a billion dollars a month to pay the bills is socialist.

When McCarten calls you a socialist, you know it is bad!

Act

2. Someone tell Roger Douglas that Key really meant it when he said he won’t put him in Cabinet – ever.

Heh, even if he becomes co-leader.

Maori Party

3. Select two candidates this year who can win Tainui and Ikaora-Rawhiti. If they take these two electorates off Labour, the party will be in Cabinet forever, no matter who leads a government.

And this is why Labour’s strategy has been so short-sighted.

Labour

5. Have a talk to a few more of the backbenchers about retiring. The caucus still has a long tail in the batting order. Does the party need so many student politicians and others who’ve never had a real job?

6. Hope like hell Winston Peters makes a comeback. If NZ First gets enough polling this year to be credible, people might believe Labour can win a majority with him and the Greens. Anyway, Winston does populism far better than Goff.

Labour did pretty well with its new intake, but the front bench especially needs a shake up.

Interesting that McCarten admits that Labour probably can’t win without Winston. Can you imagine the havoc he would play with Goff as PM. Not even Clark could control him.

Greens

1. Brand the party as cutting edge and trendy again so that supporters don’t notice that the caucus is, like, really old and boring. Get the youth back.

I think the Greens have an average age older than National?