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Shearer’s plans – More Costs On Business

by Whaleoil on December 3, 2011

Since the media and the Labour party are wanting their leadership battle conducted in public then I think it is incumbent on those of us deeply immersed in politics to bring to the fore the beliefs and policies that the candidates support. Since the media don’t seem to want to do the in depth analysis and because they have written off David Cunliffe, it is only proper that we look into the incredibly short political career of David Shearer:

It would appear that if David Shearer is successful in his bid to lead Labour, Kiwi employers could expect even more costs to be piled on them.

David Shearer doesn’t think a $15 minimum wage is enough.

He wants the minimum wage linked to the average wage.  David Farrar pointed out the lunacy of this when he blogged about Mana’s wage policy. It looks like David Shearer is onboard with Mana’s policy and has in fact adopted it.

Of course this would cost plenty of jobs.

And follows on from his plan to decriminalise and regulate cannabis.

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  • diabolos

    In my uninformed view neither cunliffe nor shearer have the capability to lead a pissup at a brewery.  They are both followers – not leaders and they have no charisma.

    Goff wasnt Key (thats a relief) but he was getting into a good zone in that short election runup.  And yes – i know – they lost – i dont need reminding.  There were many and varied factors that led to that.  Cunliffe and Shearer have nothing to offer.  I dont think Labour needs rebuilding – it needs to tap into the messaging of those last few weeks of campaigning and go for it hell for leather.  In 3 years time the conditions that led to strange voting patterns most likely wont be there.  

    Rebuilding labour – means a return to the Lange / Douglas populist economic-fashionista era.  We dont want to go there again.  We ended up with John Key as the end result of the trickle down theory that started dribbling out of the neo-liberal member onto the populace around that time.

  • Anonymous

    Sure, but Cunliffe would compensate for his lack of pissup-brewery skills by denouncing beer as inferior. Just watching him on The Nation, his arrogance is unbridled for someone that most people can’t stand.

    • diabolos

      Yep mate you are right.  Under Goffs mantle he was kept in check – let loose he would be a liability to everyone – including himself.  One of the downsides to Academia – the rest of us are just lesser mortals.  Mind you – being a currency trader/merchant banker etc leads to the same problem i reckon.  In the right role Cunliffe would do well – as leader he is a disaster waiting to happen.

      Labour dont want a Key type clone.  

  • Anonymous

    It very much looks like a “more of the same” approach from Labour.  More tinkering and intervention here and there, as has been described above. It doesn’t sound like they’ve learned very much. 
     I’m desperately hoping that for the next election, they’ll keep the “GST off fruit and veg” and the “expanding WFF to beneficiaries” policies. Those, along with their continued union ties, should keep a good number of people away from them.

  • max_power

    Of course Shearer wants to link that. He’s steeped in the peculiar UN economics which looks at nothing other than wealth re-distribution and fails to ask the simple question of where is that wealth coming from in the first place, in big bureaucracy and in big govt.

    Sadly most people are so appallingly ignorant they too fail to ask themselves this obvious question and consequently I predict Shearer’s economic views will overwhelm Silent-T’s when he enunciates them in cacus this week. And when Shearer is elected the polls will show a significant uptick, the media will fall in love with him and endlessly gush over his magnificent wartime heroism on behalf of the poor and downtwodden.

    Can you imagine Walrus and Campbells first interviews with the new leader?

    • Anonymous

      A brief summary of the two prospective leaders might look something like this –
      Shearer – Ivory-tower economic thinking. Anti-business leaning (wanting more than $15ph minimum wage). Almost certainly on the end of Uncle Helen’s puppet-strings.
      Cunliffe – Also anti-business (more due to his pushing the capital-gains tax). Has a possible “pro” in not being such a puppet of Uncle Helen.  

  • Paulus

    He is Helen’s appointment via his friend Goff.

    • Anonymous

      Yep…. I’d say you’re bang-on there. 
      At least that gives him a weak spot that makes him vulnerable if he gets the nod as leader.  A puppet of Uncle Helen. I’ll be watching bloody closely to see if Shearer pushes to increase our annual intake of refugees. If he pushes for that, that will no doubt be on the orders of his puppetmaster.

      • Gazzaw

        Totally agree with you thor. From day 1 I have been really sus about Shearer’s UN links and the cosiness of the whole deal. It would be disastrous for labour and a great avenue for the Nats to attack in 2014. Have you noticed that more & more of late there are negative comments about the Clark era in the media and even on Red Blurt. Social engineering & Clarkism are becoming dirty words. The Nats PR people should have a field day.