Opinion - Christopher Luxon is now being openly mocked and ridiculed by political commentators for his failure to achieve a coalition government, writes Bryce Edwards.
I was thinking about this some more. Realistically the most logical policy wise coalition would be for National to ditch the remaining right-right wing elements that haven’t already gone to Act, and “Labour” to ditch whatever remains of their left wing elements and form a grand coalition of the centre-right.
Apart from their enduring antagonism towards each other, those two lumps of the parties are actually not particularly distinguishable on the really big economic issues; and it would only really be if the National religious fundamentalists could hold their nose for some of the more liberal social issues.
But you don’t hear calls for National & Labour to form a coalition like you do National-Greens because everybody knows it’d trash both parties support. But the same thing applies to National-Green the commentariat just chooses to pretend it doesn’t, maybe they’re trolling I dunno?
I was thinking about this some more. Realistically the most logical policy wise coalition would be for National to ditch the remaining right-right wing elements that haven’t already gone to Act, and “Labour” to ditch whatever remains of their left wing elements and form a grand coalition of the centre-right.
Apart from their enduring antagonism towards each other, those two lumps of the parties are actually not particularly distinguishable on the really big economic issues; and it would only really be if the National religious fundamentalists could hold their nose for some of the more liberal social issues.
But you don’t hear calls for National & Labour to form a coalition like you do National-Greens because everybody knows it’d trash both parties support. But the same thing applies to National-Green the commentariat just chooses to pretend it doesn’t, maybe they’re trolling I dunno?