Lefter

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.

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.

I do not consider the common man to be placed there for me to exploit and make financial gains from, and to rule with laws.

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 [...]

Bizarrely, as I write this, two young men with swastika tattoos are washing the house. The house washing people didn’t say anything about neo-Nazi operators. It’s not like the firm was called Himmler Housewash or anything.  ‘Politically Correct’ is one of the catch phrases people seemed to love to use to label all sorts of [...]

A few years ago my younger brother, who I respect and like, told me that the Middle Class basically paid all the taxes here yet was being squeezed continuously by successive governments. He said the Middle Class was shrinking and this was bad for New Zealand. I challenged him on this, and he annoyed me [...]