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Long pre-election-season political post.
Oct. 24th, 2022 06:02 pmIf you are on the electoral role in NZ you probably received a letter from the National Party this week, or are about to. If you are like me your first instinct on seeing "Leader's Office National Party" on the front of the envelope was to drop it straight in the recycling. Believe it or not I am asking you not to do that.
Inside is a party statement which is not worth reading[1], but on the back of this is a survey (pictured) which I urge you to fill out and return by Freepost, especially of you are not a National supporter. It's a little thing, but someone will see the results and there is a slim chance enough of them might have a trickle-up effect on policy. Also if I understand how Freepost works NZ Post get like a buck for every survey returned (from parliamentary services or some such not the National party coffers unfortunately), which is a better use of our tax dollars than much of National/Act policy.
[1] Basically repetition of the lines that Labour are poor stewards of the economy and have an addiction to spending, in the hope that if they say it enough people will believe it. Sadly this form of political attack in place of coherent, costed policy has a history of working :( If you want more reading on /why/ it is completely untrue, Gordon Campbell at Werewolf writes about it quite often.
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I may blog about my answers later, but for now I want to switch tack and talk about the Labour Party for a bit.
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Inside is a party statement which is not worth reading[1], but on the back of this is a survey (pictured) which I urge you to fill out and return by Freepost, especially of you are not a National supporter. It's a little thing, but someone will see the results and there is a slim chance enough of them might have a trickle-up effect on policy. Also if I understand how Freepost works NZ Post get like a buck for every survey returned (from parliamentary services or some such not the National party coffers unfortunately), which is a better use of our tax dollars than much of National/Act policy.
[1] Basically repetition of the lines that Labour are poor stewards of the economy and have an addiction to spending, in the hope that if they say it enough people will believe it. Sadly this form of political attack in place of coherent, costed policy has a history of working :( If you want more reading on /why/ it is completely untrue, Gordon Campbell at Werewolf writes about it quite often.
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I may blog about my answers later, but for now I want to switch tack and talk about the Labour Party for a bit.
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