Labour leader's dog whistle

What's wrong with politicians? How could Andrew Little, leader of the New Zealand Labour Party believe that there is political traction to be gained by advocating a restriction on the immigration of chefs. Let's assume that ten or twenty chefs with skills to cook ethnic food, Cambodian, Vietnamese, Indian, French or Italian, or Hungarian for that matter, are excluded. Would that solve the Auckland housing crisis, or make a dent in the unemployment rate, which is anyway, not high by international standards? He also attacked banks? Why not go the whole hog and advocate nationalising them? Earlier this year he happened to notice that many people who bought houses in Auckland had Chinese names? So what, you might say. But Little and the Labour Party is deliberately fueling xenophobia. This is now very unfashionable in a New Zealand context. Is he learning his political strategy from Donald Trump? Fortunately I believe that Donald Trump would be laughed out of court in New Zealand. With policies like this, it may be the end of the New Zealand Labour Party. There are already people who think that Labour has lost its way and the Greens are the only genuine opposition on the left to the National Party. Perhaps the demise of the Labour Party would not be a great loss. The various faction within the present National government, Bill English on the left, John Key in the pragmatic, opportunist middle, and Gerry Bronlee, Judith Collins and some others on the right, might provide enough opposition for the country to be democratically governed.