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  1. Comment on Is the Opportunity Party left wing?

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    it’s not about who to vote for, it’s about the narrative being built. There’s a whole dynamic of the lefties calling OP right wing, and righties calling OP left wing. The lefties need to get a grip because the left may need OP to form government. Will …

  2. Comment on Is the Opportunity Party left wing?

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    From what I can tell from listening to Wong interviews, OP are very open to the idea of something like a tax working group rather than insisting they get their policies now. It’s one of the things I like about them. Proof is in the pudding of course, but …

  3. Comment on Is the Opportunity Party left wing?

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    I don’t think we should evaluate them on whether they are inherently left or right. I’d agree, because they’re not left or right 😉 But if we want to consider a centre left coalition I do think it’s useful and necessary to understand their positioning.

  4. Comment on Is the Opportunity Party left wing?

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    I really like their strategy atm of developing policy that it will be easier for Labour to say yes to and the MSM not to freak out over.

  5. Comment on Is the Opportunity Party left wing?

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    I’ll keep a running list deferral over years is a hefty burden. I haven’t done the calculations, but say someone lives in a house for 30 years and has to defer all that time. How does that work? Does it work against lowering house prices? With elderly …

  6. Comment on Is the Opportunity Party left wing?

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    Policy holes. 1. it’s unaffordable for some 2. some would have to sell, and wouldn’t be able to afford to buy cheaper where they live 3. some of those would be beneficiaries and would lose their supplementary benefits and/or live off the sale money for a …

  7. Comment on Is the Opportunity Party left wing?

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    lol, I answered the question in this first word of the post. The point isn’t that they are left or right, it’s that we need to understand what they actually are. We really should stop making out they are right wing. What if we need them to form a centre …

  8. Comment on Is the Opportunity Party left wing?

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    Current GP policy To strengthen renters’ rights, the Greens would implement a Renter’s Rights Bill, cap rent increases at 2%, reverse no-cause evictions for rental stability, and introduce a Rental Warrant of Fitness to fix the holes in the Healthy Homes …

  9. Comment on Is the Opportunity Party left wing?

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    holes, not hole. We had a rent freeze during the pandemic. Maybe Christchurch did post-quake?

  10. Comment on Is the Opportunity Party left wing?

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    If NACTF needed OP to form government, I have zero doubt they would try.

  11. Comment on Is the Opportunity Party left wing?

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    I’m fine with OP making it into parliament. We desperately need to break the Peters Supremacy bollocks. My concern is if that will cost the left the election, which would be very bad.

  12. Comment on Is the Opportunity Party left wing?

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    I’m wondering how many people are aware (including yourself) that when someone on a benefit sells the house they are living in, and doesn’t buy another house, thy have a cash asset that will be counted against their benefit. WINZ gives them a grace period …

  13. Comment on Is the Opportunity Party left wing?

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    afaik OP’s policy for paying later only applies to people on Super (or maybe all older people)

  14. Comment on Is the Opportunity Party left wing?

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    Come on RP. The Greens did a decade of work on wealth taxation, including costed policy development, that doesn’t rely on universal annual LVT. Tax super wealth, tax CGs at the point they become income. It’s not hard to find ideas that aren’t regressive.

  15. Comment on Is the Opportunity Party left wing?

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    Wong is unapologetic about being teal and centrist.

  16. Comment on Is the Opportunity Party left wing?

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    Green Party and OP policies for comparison. The Greens design from a social welfare pov, OP design from an economics pov. https://www.greens.org.nz/policy https://www.opportunity.org.nz/policy

  17. Is the Opportunity Party left wing?

    Written By: weka - Date published: - 207 comments
    Categories: election 2026, Opportunity Party, TOPS Tags: , ,

    No. They’re not right wing either. People are trying to fit them into L/R boxes, but they don’t fit. They’re progressive centrists of the like we haven’t seen before, orthogonal1 to the traditional Left/Right spectrum. This is not the centrism of Peters …

  18. Comment on Daily review 17/09/2026

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    cheers Kat.

  19. Comment on Daily review 17/09/2026

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    Can anyone find the link to the house today where Ngarewa Packer and Jackson were evicted? I want to see what was happening before.

  20. Comment on Comrade Christopher and the breakup of Foodstuffs

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    tsmithfield is talking about more supermarkets. The Greens are talking about the same number of supermarkets just a different market structure.

  21. Comment on Comrade Christopher and the breakup of Foodstuffs

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    you’re talking about more supermarkets. The Greens are talking about the same number of supermarkets just a different market structure.

  22. Comment on Comrade Christopher and the breakup of Foodstuffs

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    If the market isn’t big enough for more competitors, What makes you think the market isn’t big enough for more competitors?

  23. Comment on Open Mike 17/09/2026

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    the Greens sticking to their niche.

  24. Comment on The robots are coming to get us

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    it hasn’t even been a week /darklol

  25. Comment on The robots are coming to get us

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    Reading this, the term recursive self improvement. That term, and RSI shorthand, need to be blasted across media and SM along with explanations about why it’s not self awareness or thinking. https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/two-missing-pieces-in-the-ai-safety …

  26. Comment on Open Mike 14/09/2026

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    that makes sense, but it’s only going to take one stupid state to keep overdeveloping AI to either break the industrialised world, and/or undermine regulation. More akin to the arms race.

  27. Comment on The robots are coming to get us

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    I think we are saying the same thing? You say the vulnerabilities exist, I say it doesn’t matter why they exist. Both lead to: AI doing bad, bad shit (potentially) I don’t have the bandwidth for the translation today. So I agree with you about the …

  28. Comment on The robots are coming to get us

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    this kind of response (yes the AI got out of the box, but it was the humans fault), is true, but it doesn’t solve the problem. If the problem is that humans are too stupid or arrogant to stop AI escaping, that’s just another way of saying AI is smarter …

  29. Comment on Open Mike 14/09/2026

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    true, unless something makes it worth their while.

  30. Comment on Labour to accelerate climate action

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    I think we might have lost some of the replies, some at least ended up as stand alone comments. There were major time lags in all that happening, was crazy.