Originally Posted by
belgarion
The NZ voter has realised that concepts like fairness, integrity, honour, openness, truth, honesty, compassion, due process, etc are, in fact, very, very valid election issues.
They thought their govt was behaving correctly. Now they know these values have been placed secondary to a single party's lust for dominance and they've been manipulated.
Until these values are restored ... This is what this election will be about.
Without such values being reflected by our government then all other issues take the back seat. Why? Simple. There will be no trust between voters and government.
Those calling for a return to debating "policy" are, for the most part, like Cuzzie: trying to do whatever they can to pretend that concepts like fairness, integrity, honour, openness, truth, honesty, compassion, due process, etc are less important than they actually are.