Left-wing writer and activist, Chris Trotter lays out what he thinks are the reasons for working class New Zealanders voting against their traditional home - the Labour Party.
I have been saying for years now that the working stiff in New Zealand needs to ditch Labour and find another voice. I don't believe right-wing is the answer either, nor is racial division. A voice has to be found that can unite all working people once again, under the one banner, building a New Zealand for all Kiwis.
https://pointofordernz.wordpress.com/2023/10/19/chris-trotter-losing-the-working-class/
I ALWAYS WONDERED what it would take to detach the New Zealand working class from Labour. Not all of the working-class, obviously, but enough to strip the party of the demographic heft that, for more than a century, has made it a decisive electoral player. Now I know, but it took a fair few wrong guesses before I got there.
