Nice little bit of framing here
The left-centre-right positioning of the logos...someone is thinking.
this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2026
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I thought TOP was left of labour, but i could be wrong...
Quite wrong.
Opportunity are hard to pin down; as the left-right divide doesn't apply to them very well.
The media wants desperately to shove them into a partisan box; but they don't fit.
Some policy looks very "left" - free public transport. Some look to be from the "right" - abundant energy. Their tax policy doesn't really fit either left or right.
Specifically on tax policy, if you look from the right it feels very "left"; but if you look from the left it looks quite "right". But really it is both; it looks like redistribution of wealth, but it also looks a lot like tax breaks. So both left and right at the same time. More people will have more money to spend, thus it is stimulatory; which in theory should grow the economy. What it does do (hopefully) is to move investment away from property as the ONLY thing we do; to other things that actually generate wealth.
True, I guess they're more centrist than labour in terms of taxation, but also less conservative than labour in that they're willing to try new things, including things that could potentially benefit upper and upper middle class people...
I think labour want to appear more left wing than they really are though, as labour is quite conservative in that they're very keen on the status quo and unwilling to make any real changes that will actually benefit the working class...
You are right. Labour and National are both neoliberal parties. Labour just seems to make life a bit less painful for people while still refusing to make any meaningful changes. I don't want three free doctor visits. I want nurses to be paid fairly. I want affordable housing. I want a system that taxes unproductive stuff (land banking) and reduce taxes on productive stuff (income). Labour will never actually do it.
Opportunity says they are into "evidence-based policies" instead of "the same old thing that got us into this mess". So, they support things that are sensible instead of just left or right. Opportunity and the Greens are the only ones putting forward tax policies that will fix the crappy "nobody can afford anything" situation we've gotten into after the whole Rogernomics thing.
Yeah I'm just hoping they swing more voters from national and labour as opposed to green... 😅
I'd be happy if the get in, provide stability and a clear long term vision.
Being able to work with both national and labour, which will be in power around half the time each, is important.
If they take sine green votes to do it, that it the voters speaking.
Mostly I want them to get more votes than act, and thus more bargaining power.
Wayne is a lunatic about "government waste". Its nitpicky and unfounded IMO but its a good tool for him to wield because people dont have the required context to evaluate the numbers he throws around. He complaints about the most miniscule spending but because 10k is a lot to the average person they think wow can't believe it was just wasted like that.