Lefter 21 ~ What does ‘Labour’ mean?
When I really think about it, I don’t actually know what the Labour Party stands for any more. Do you? To me, currently, it looks like an ineffectual left wing of the National Party.
Posts tagged with democracy
Lefter 19 ~ Going to Prison
The left tends to look at why people commit crimes, and tries to target resources accordingly. But the right assumes people are bad and need to be curbed.
Lefter #15 ~ Treason!
I hate it that I’m right in this case, but this budget confirms exactly what I imagined back then. It’s just so commonly a right-wing response.
Lefter 13 ~ Representation
Who do they serve? According to Statistics New Zealand, the working age population of New Zealand was 3,229,200 (in the year ending March 2007). Of those, 2,126,200 were employed. We’re supposed to be a nation of small businesses, as I said in Lefter 12 (The King of Bongo, below), but 53% of new small-to-medium NZ [...]