The slogans policy

You read the story on ACT’s law and order policy and you get the impressions it is a policy to have more slogans. At first glance we have:

• Will “turn back the clock”
• zero tolerance for crime
• a communities-first approach to policing
• one law for all
• harsh quick justice

None of which mean much to me. The only actual policy detail in the story was “to deport any non-New Zealand citizen convicted of a serious violent offence upon completion of sentence or earlier” which sounds a good idea to me. More specifics like that would have been good.

Rodney’s speech doesn’t contain any details. They do have a law & order policy which states they will:

• Bring back private prisons
• speed up courts (no details as to how though)
• Promotes “broken windows” and “zero tolerance”

Now before all the ACT supporters yell at me, I also criticised National for the (previous) paucity of their policy statements.