{"id":199,"date":"2024-10-17T21:20:32","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T13:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kopigao.net\/?p=199"},"modified":"2024-10-17T21:20:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T13:20:33","slug":"the-workers-partys-incoherent-position-on-the-income-allianz-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kopigao.net\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"The Workers\u2019 Party\u2019s Incoherent Position on the Income-Allianz deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The WP said that they supported the Government\u2019s blocking of the proposed Income-Allianz deal on public interest grounds. Yet, they abstained from voting on the Bill Amendment.<br><br>I agree, but I do not express my agreement.<br><br>I am in favour, yet I do not vote in favour because it\u2019s your Bill.<br><br>How does this make any sense?<br><br>They take a stand to not take a stand. They act to not act. The politics of performative gestures, rather than principled positions.<br><br>Hedging. Waffling.<br><br>This seems to be the WP\u2019s typical approach. The same with how they voted on S377A and many other occasions. Opposing just to oppose, and abstaining when it&#8217;s inconvenient to take a stand.<br><br>Ducking when difficult decisions need to be made. Leon Perera, Raeesah Khah etc.<br><br>Incoherent. Opportunistic. Indecisive. This is the WP today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ducking when difficult decisions need to be made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kopigao.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kopigao.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kopigao.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kopigao.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kopigao.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kopigao.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/kopigao.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kopigao.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kopigao.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kopigao.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kopigao.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}