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New Labour leader Jacinda Ardern, who has led a charmed life of privilege, has helped stick the knife in Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei who recently admitted that when she was on the domestic purposes benefit in the 1990s, she didn't declare some income from a flatmate. At the time, Metiria had a child to feed, house and clothe and was a student trying to study law, in a period just a few years after vicious cuts in social welfare benefits by the fourth National Party government (benefits were cut by 20-25%). The NZ Labour Party is not any kind of "workers party". It is dominated by snooty middle class people who look down on the poorest section of the working class, and Ardern is a fitting representative for that layer of anti-working class petty-bourgeois. https://rdln.wordpress.com/2017/08/06/labour-and-the-politics-of-respectability-and-low-horizons/ _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
