Welcome to our blog.
These are the voices of Labour MPs on issues that we care about. It’s a bit different, and you’re going to see different perspectives. You can join in and have a direct discussion with us if you want to.
Labour wants its voices heard and we want to engage directly with you, the people. What you’ll read are the opinions of individual MPs. We won’t always agree with each other and sometimes our opinions may change.
It’s real. It’s honest. And it’s live.
- Clare Curran, Labour Communications and IT spokesperson.
Welcome to the blogosphere. A smart initiative.
Good move and good luck with managing comments …
Good to see. Thanks for starting this. Look forward to it.
Gidday Clare, and Labour MPs one and all. What an excellent idea! All the very best with Red Alert. Nice to see Labour leading the way in the use of web based tools to open new lines of communication.
Dear Claire
why don’t I believe you?
because the history of NZLabour is not to engage but keep them busy whilst you enacted your agenda.
That’s why you were voted out not because you were in too long. (you were 9yrs too long).
you didn’t listen to us, in fact you either ignored us or demonised us.
maybe this site is a start.
I hope so as the legacy Labour has left with the prefu and other lies is appalling.
I voted for Annette King in your first entry into the last administration.
but never again when i saw what you were doing.
Good onya. You needed something better than Standard.
Welcome. I look forward to reading these blogs and will watch with interest as more MPs come on board
And once again Labour copies a four year old Green Party idea
In this case, the Greens don’t mind! Play hard (but fair!).
Congratulations, especially what I have read so far. It is much more open that conversations confined to LECs and cups of coffee in the beehive cafe, whose name I have forgotten.
Just please don’t be a token one-way blog that never gets updated and never responds to the comments…http://cartoonbank.com/assets/1/121304_m.gif
Hopefully this little experiment goes well. Having the elected representatives actually communicating with the broader community in an open setting is certainly a step in the right direction for democracy.
Welcome to the blog world. Will be great to have MP’s views available for us to read and comment on.
looking forward to seeing more blogs on here. WD
Thanks for all the comments so far, more MPs will come online this week and things will start to hot up. We welcome your constructive suggestions for blog topics
Ideas for blog topics…. well there are a few controversial things going on at the moment:
1) Waterview Connection options
2) Auckland’s Super-City proposal
3) RMA Amendments
And that’s just in the transport/planning area which I have a particular interest in.
It would also be good to have some pre-budget discussion – ie. what would Labour be doing differently? National’s economic stimulus seems to have rather fizzled so far at $500 million + the Victoria Park Tunnel.
Sorry, one more thing:
I think it would be good for the blog to include a “recent comments” widget in the sidebar so that we can see the comments that have been recently posted, and whether someone’s replied to something we said.
@jarbury – Good idea. It’s on our list of things we’re likely to add. You should notice a few changes over the next few weeks and we’re always open to feature suggestions. Cheers!
Hello – a suggestion…
When you click into a particular post, that page doesn’t say who the post was from. It’d be good if it did – I sometimes email to people a link to the particular post, and it’d good for them to know who has written it…
Cheers,
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