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There are always those who will support Labour no matter what.
Just like there are those who will support National no matter what.
No objectivity - just wedded to the Party and, in some cases, confuse their own identity with the chosen party.
When this happens, objective and rational thought is not possible and they will clutch at anything to defend their identity (the Party) no matter how ridiculous they sound and appear to everyone else.
They've moved on though, you'll notice that none of them defend the failed Labour policies, most of them never even tried to, they have shifted now to attacking the coalition policies, as all good oppositions should. Pity Labour themselves haven't found their voice yet.
Time has proven that the Labour policies, and fortunately (absurdly) their abject inability to implement most of them just sustained the disfunction, but perversely wasted untold billions of taxpayer $ in trying to doing so.
This monumental Labour mess is going to take a herculean effort to fix up, some of it might not even be fixable in the 3 year term of government. Hopefully the lessons of being duped by Labour and some wins from the coalition, will secure at least a second term for the incumbents.
Good points.
If the NZ public put Labour back in power at the next election then we, as a country, deserve everything we get.
It would be shocking.
Provided the current coalition don’t do anything too nutty in the next couple of years I would think they are virtually guaranteed a second term after what Labour did the previous 6 years.
Labour will be forgiven in time - but I think they will need sit in opposition for at least one more term if not more.
National only won because of the 20 bucks a week and Winston.