The truth comes out

The NZ Herald reports a damning by NZPA about how told some constituents that he was happy for there to be a but that Labour was worried it would take a hammering over the foreshore and seabed issue.

Now some people have not been convinced that this is a big issue. But just think about the precedent that we have allowed this Government to not just set, but get away with.

We now have a precedent that the Government can retrospectively amend the electoral act to avoid an election, because the timing is politically inconvenient.

Clark has already shown a willingness to have an early election on the filmiest of grounds (that seven minutes a day of points or order were making the Government unmanageable), and now she has cancelled an election on equally flimsy grounds. Arrogance doesn't even come close to the epitaphs am thinking of.

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