Dump unpopular policies, refuse to face issues

So Andrew Little, the new found great white hope of the Labour Party wants to dump unpopular polices such as capital gains tax and the rise in the pension age; anything to win votes, to hell with ideas alternative to the current neo-liberal orthodoxy. Treat voters as ignorant sheep, give them what they want, a little bribe here, a little there, just don't confront the major issues facing the country. The successful Labour politicians of the past never hesitated to introduce radical measures needed at the time, from the welfare legislation of the first Labour government to the radical economic reforms of Roger Douglas, but such radical thinking is not for Andrew Little. He is the face of the new unionism, steady as she goes, but don't ever rock the boat. Are workers any better off with such a policy? Why can't workers working for anything less than the average wage live on their wages? Why do they need government subsidies to live and bring up their children? Why are the unions not crying foul? And why is the Labour Party confortable with this state of affairs? Perhaps David Parker had some sound ideas, presented an economic plan for our time, a plan that would change the financial management of the country, change the objectives and tools of the Reserve Bank, encourage investment in production rather than in speculative property, look at the provision of retirement for those reaching retirement age, without taking from the children of the present. But these policies got lost in the clamour over Dotcom's antics, or those of Whale Oil, or the irrelevant dirt dished out by Nicky Hager. People were not listening, or got lost in the confusion and didn't vote. So chuck out these policies and join the popularity contest, the political beauty parade. With thinking like this the Labour Party, like most formerly socialist parties all over the world, will consign itself to oblivion.