Posts tagged with right

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.

Published in: Commentary, Left, New Zealand, Politics, Thought on November 3, 2009 at1:52 pm Comments (1)
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Lefter 5 ~ Politically Correct

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 [...]

Published in: Left, New Zealand, Politics, Thought, Uncategorized on December 10, 2008 at8:14 pm Comments (0)
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Lefter 4: the Middle Class

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 [...]

Published in: Left, New Zealand, Politics, Thought on December 3, 2008 at3:43 pm Comments (1)
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