NZ Gypsies Look Out!
Molesworth and Featherston reports that the Nats are "well advanced" with plans to being an Australian Liberal strategist out to help their campaign get off the ground.
This concerns me as all of the available evidence suggests that the Liberals have perfected the type of divide and rule tactics that see voiceless minority groups ruthlessly targetted for expedient political advantage. Former Liberal director Lynton Crosby's influence on the British Conservative campaign in recent times has been notable. The Tories have very effectively played the race card, targetting groups such as assylum seekers and Gypsies with some effect beginning to show in the polls.
Tampa anyone?
While I have great faith in New Zealand voters, and believe that most people here see through this kind gutter politics, it concerns me that the indications from National at this early stage are that they are prepared to lower themselves, and the tone of the campaign to such a degree in their pursuit of power.
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I don't think that lying about refugees throwing their children overboard, or evicting gypsies from sites they have by tradition occupied for hundreds of years are examples of "removing the race card for the deck".
Rather, these are policies designed to stir up fear and anxiety.
Which Labour policies do you think are "a thousand times worse" than lying about refugee parents killing their children, in order to procure political advantage?
You must be insane to suggest National would adopt such policies. This is blatant scaremongering.
Do you really belive that?
Spooks, given your obsessive interest in the topic I am sure you will join me in congratulating the Labour government on the following:
Unemployment Benefit numbers have fallen by 62 per cent since
1999. Overall number of working-aged New Zealanders on benefits
is down to 292,000 - 21 per cent fewer than in 1999 and the first
time the figure has been below 300,000 in 16 years Unemployment
Benefit numbers have fallen by more than 20,200 over the past
year and now stand at less than 55,000 - the lowest figure in
nearly 20 years In total there are more than 85,000 fewer people
on the Unemployment Benefit than there were five years ago There
are now around 98,112 sole parents on the DPB - over 3,000 fewer
than a year ago and nearly 6,000 fewer than in December 1999.
It is no surprise at all demographically that the numbers on the DPB are falling.
In the 1960's and early 1970's the average age at which NZ women first fell pregnant was extremely low and many hasty, ill-conceived shotgun marriages that later fell apart were the result. The children of those marriages have learnt from their parents' mistakes and are more careful and because of that and other reasons, children and marriages are entered into on a far more considered basis now.
Spooks! - cheer up! - it's better for your health, and - things are getting better!
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