Raf Manji really screwed up by proposing to land tax empty sections - but only in the CBD. He would’ve got my vote if he included empty land in some suburbs like Riccarton. There’s a partially demolished home on Ilam Road near the Adventist church and it’s been that way for 3 years. All windows smashed and boarded up, rubbish and old tyres all over the section. Just down the road from uni and it looks nasty.
On reddit, Top voters panicked because they thought that nobody outside of reddit knew about the party. They were very open about this. Great advertising! Imagine meeting “FreshAnus” and his mate “SeyGecksFuttBucker” at a campaign rally and suddenly becoming a Top supporter.
If top was the party of reddit weirdos then I have no idea what it is now.
If anything in the past TOP was really the party of great policy and poor communication.
The reddit ‘weirdos’ you reference understood (or thought they did) the policy and complexity of what TOP were proposing.
Generally anyone saying they can solve complex issues with simple solutions, either doesn’t understand the issue or is lying to you. TOP broadly has/had good policy and good solutions but doesn’t know how to communicate that to the public at large, who generally are not that politically engaged.
Most people are one or two issue voters; trying to communicate the nuance and complexity of issues and solutions to these types of voters is difficult.
I don’t think TOP had great ideas, otherwise they’d have got more of the youth vote. I just want to get a decent quality rental that has privacy, and which doesn’t get either too hot or too cold. Can’t be that bloody hard, but everyone seems to tread carefully around landlords.
Raf Manji really screwed up by proposing to land tax empty sections - but only in the CBD. He would’ve got my vote if he included empty land in some suburbs like Riccarton. There’s a partially demolished home on Ilam Road near the Adventist church and it’s been that way for 3 years. All windows smashed and boarded up, rubbish and old tyres all over the section. Just down the road from uni and it looks nasty.
On reddit, Top voters panicked because they thought that nobody outside of reddit knew about the party. They were very open about this. Great advertising! Imagine meeting “FreshAnus” and his mate “SeyGecksFuttBucker” at a campaign rally and suddenly becoming a Top supporter.
If top was the party of reddit weirdos then I have no idea what it is now.
If anything in the past TOP was really the party of great policy and poor communication.
The reddit ‘weirdos’ you reference understood (or thought they did) the policy and complexity of what TOP were proposing.
Generally anyone saying they can solve complex issues with simple solutions, either doesn’t understand the issue or is lying to you. TOP broadly has/had good policy and good solutions but doesn’t know how to communicate that to the public at large, who generally are not that politically engaged.
Most people are one or two issue voters; trying to communicate the nuance and complexity of issues and solutions to these types of voters is difficult.
I don’t think TOP had great ideas, otherwise they’d have got more of the youth vote. I just want to get a decent quality rental that has privacy, and which doesn’t get either too hot or too cold. Can’t be that bloody hard, but everyone seems to tread carefully around landlords.
Then LVT should be the policy you are interested in.
Alrighty