While you’re right and it’s clearly evidence of a drought of new ideas in this government, I’m glad to see it adopted as policy by both the major parties. Perhaps now it’ll actually happen.

Sounds like someone has been sittng in on National strategy meetings – honestly what kind of people are you that you think hiding your agenda then doing whatever the hell you want is a moral way to behave? Surely, if your ideas a valid the public will back them.

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A fiscially neutral change to transport funding, that’s the one example you can point to of Laobur taking natioanl’s policy – in the reverse direction, right of the top of my head there’s:
- 4 weeks annual elave
- kiwisaver
- no nukes
- Working for Families
- the Cullen Fund
- no further asset sales
- no strike wing for the airforce
- Kyoto (ok National was for that before they were against it before they were for it, kinda, again, but still)

and any day now

- interest-free loans

They are far different to Labour – you just won’t no how different until after they’ve won an election

You mean ‘stolen’ in the same sense as Dan Brash’s emails were ‘stolen’?

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“travel by roads that are brought to you by Labour”

“Catch the bus – subsidised by funds allocated by this Labour-led Government”

“20 Free bus rides – you are better off with Labour”

But it is LTNZ that is doing the advertising you idiot – this is not party political or election related.

Yeah Right

Oh very good riposte Sir! Captures the mood of the day very nicely!

There’s zero integrity – no standard of behaviour means anything. We’ve had bribery, assault, misleading the house, prima facie criminal cases made… none of which have led to the expulsion of ministers from cabinet in recent years.)

We’ve had complete backflips on so many positions, including ones that Labour was extremely heated up about – this one, anonymous donations, and don’t forget “closing the gaps”.

When was the last time Labour had a policy that genuinely helped the poor (and wasn’t extended to rich people like WFF)? How about helping Maori – DPF posted the other day that they’ve had pathetic progress on treaty issues compared to the National government. What about health? There’s no real progress on fixing the health system at all – waiting lists are as long as ever, and don’t forget how they tried to shorten them by just throwing people off!

What about renewing themselves? Don’t make me laugh! Labour still have the same front bench that they had when they were in opposition. Sure, a few have moved on but none anyone actually cares about. Read hansard from 1992 and see how many names you recognise.

What about the surplus? How much money does the government have to have sloshing around in the coffers before they offer a bit of relief for Joe Taxpayer? 5 Billion, 10 Billion, it’s never enough?

Ministerial responsibility is out the door – just blame the nearest staffer. Inconvenient question in the house? Don’t bother answering at all. In fact, Labour have ministers asking questions to fellow ministers. How pathetic is that!

Independence of offices like the Auditor General has been seriously compromised. The electoral act is being changed explicitly so that “attempted rourts by the opposition” cannot be used again – except those supposed rorts aren’t even the biggest problem to come out of the last election, and they aren’t even being banned anyway. The foreign minister’s position is a joke – the representative of our government to the world isn’t even in the government, nor is the revenue minister. Oh, appointing your best friend as speaker, regardless of her experience, does put you in the “old boys club”.

Did we mention it’s ok to steal taxpayers money? Forge signatures? Have people break the speed limit to get to a rugby game? Using a bent cop as a source to shut down criticism that the cops are bent?

And the scary thing is, that’s not even the beginning.

Nope. There’s no meaning to anything this government does.

Just like when National stole Act policies in 2005 and polled 38%.

Get real. Labour have no values. They only have their obsession with power. Gerry Brownlee refused to appear on Agenda with Hodgson because in Jerry’s opinion, Hodgson was “a platitudinous fuckwit”, and he’s damn right. Kyoto Pete is an arrogant politically one dimensional moron, and if our media wasn’t a pathetic bunch of Labour party arse lickers they’d ask Hodgson to account for the words he previously spoke on this issue. Watching the obsequious commie try and squirm his way out of it would be something worth seeing.