Despite the fact I am voting blue, there are some things I like about Labour.
1) They gave New Zealand Rodger Douglas and Richard Prebble. By the early 1980's National under Muldoon was going no where, was stuck with far to many civil servants and doing things such as running business which they had no need to be in. New Zealand needed to break up the old way of doing things and these two people did a lot of work to achieve this.
2) They gave us Kiwisaver. Kiwisaver builds up savings and helps people in their old age along with buying their own home. The worst factor of Kiwisaver was that they should have started sooner (although they did try in the 1970's) and that it was not compulsory (but they had to do that at first to get it past the anti compulsory savings crowd). Yet Bill English was quite against Kiwisaver.
3) They are generally ok. Despite the fact they are centre left, they are still a centralist party and thus will not leave the place in a mess, compared to what some people like Mana would do. New Zealand survived Helen Clark, we did not get invaded, we stayed in surplus (although some tax cuts would be nice), roads got built, ( I can not say the trains ran on time due to the fact we do not have very many trains!), We got a free trade pact with China. Many things Labour did were supported by National (I understand many bills past by both National or Labour governments receive joint support such is the nature of politics).
I would survive a Labour Government and enjoy their Kiwisaver policies, but harm would be done to other areas of the economy (take at $15 minimum wage for example).
4) Raising the Pension age. When Act supports Labour take notice. We are all getting older and somebody needs to pay the bill. I guess John Key is hoping that somebody else will raise the pension age because he made an irresponsible promise not to raise it while he was PM.
I would like to note however that the problem with Labours policy is that they will be raising it far to slowly.
Some may ask where is number 5 a nuclear free NZ. Well I oppose the Labour Nuclear Free policy.
1) They gave New Zealand Rodger Douglas and Richard Prebble. By the early 1980's National under Muldoon was going no where, was stuck with far to many civil servants and doing things such as running business which they had no need to be in. New Zealand needed to break up the old way of doing things and these two people did a lot of work to achieve this.
2) They gave us Kiwisaver. Kiwisaver builds up savings and helps people in their old age along with buying their own home. The worst factor of Kiwisaver was that they should have started sooner (although they did try in the 1970's) and that it was not compulsory (but they had to do that at first to get it past the anti compulsory savings crowd). Yet Bill English was quite against Kiwisaver.
3) They are generally ok. Despite the fact they are centre left, they are still a centralist party and thus will not leave the place in a mess, compared to what some people like Mana would do. New Zealand survived Helen Clark, we did not get invaded, we stayed in surplus (although some tax cuts would be nice), roads got built, ( I can not say the trains ran on time due to the fact we do not have very many trains!), We got a free trade pact with China. Many things Labour did were supported by National (I understand many bills past by both National or Labour governments receive joint support such is the nature of politics).
I would survive a Labour Government and enjoy their Kiwisaver policies, but harm would be done to other areas of the economy (take at $15 minimum wage for example).
4) Raising the Pension age. When Act supports Labour take notice. We are all getting older and somebody needs to pay the bill. I guess John Key is hoping that somebody else will raise the pension age because he made an irresponsible promise not to raise it while he was PM.
I would like to note however that the problem with Labours policy is that they will be raising it far to slowly.
Some may ask where is number 5 a nuclear free NZ. Well I oppose the Labour Nuclear Free policy.
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