New Zealand General Election 2017
https://www.politicalcompass.org/nz2017
...While some Kiwi commentators talk excitedly of the ‘changing political landscape’, it’s essentially only the electoral landscape that’s changing. It’s less dull but no more diverse. Labour’s dedicated team of billboard volunteers have had to paste over the Little hoardings (‘Backing the Kiwi Dream’) with the more photogenic Ardern’s ‘A Fresh Approach’, now changed to the equally bloodless ‘Let’s Do This’. They’re all in stark contrast to their UK sister party’s recent electoral strapline: ‘For the Many, Not the Few’. Although UK Labour presently enjoys around 46 percent public support, most of the NZ parliamentary party would probably rather lose than potentially ignite the NZ public in a Corbynite manner. Ardern has been much more eager to tackle identity issues like gay rights than deeply ideological ones like globalisation and the consequential Transpacific Partnership Agreement. Unlike Corbyn and Sanders-style conviction politicians who attacked the fundamentals of the prevailing economic orthodoxy, Ardern is unthreatening to the status quo. She is a warm, smiling, fresh face with a socially liberal outlook. In that sense, she’s more in the mould of Blair, Trudeau, Macron and, yes, Key. The style publications are full of what they’re calling Jacindamania...
Mana Party/Mana Movement
http://mana.org.nz/
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