As the election approaches, its lack of partners is becoming
obvious to everyone; Peter Dunne and John Banks have been or are being
investigated for serious misbehaviours and it's their two votes that have
given National its slim majority in Parliament.
With only that odd
'bring back the smack, man didn't walk on the moon' Mr Craig to replace
them, National knows that its best chance, its only chance, is to attack
the Green Party.
Labour, in coalition with the Greens, will win the
election comfortably, National knows, unless it can demonize the Green
Party, by calling them names every time they ask questions about coal
mining, deep-sea oil drilling, genetically-modified foods, climate change;
all of those things National wants but New Zealanders are unsure about.
Calling your ememies 'crazy', 'mad', 'loopy' or 'evil' works quite well,
as Mr Key, who does it often, knows.
By frightening New Zealanders at
every opportunity, the National Party hopes to disguise the fact that its
support from other parties is weak.
Look out for it, as the year
progresses, not only from National MPs, but also from its supporters who
comment in the media, even the writers of letters to this newspaper.
Attack, demonize, frighten and lable is the strategy.
If National can
convince you that anyone who questions them is a terrorist, they'll be in
with a chance.
Robert Guyton
Riverton
(Thank you, Southland Times).
4 comments:
It seems we are becoming a society that doesnt look and decide for ourselves. If one person wears a label we all need to. Makes us worried that our thinking should not be different. Perhaps not a new thing as Muldoon had the dancing Cossacks many years ago. I do worry that some senior opposition members are putting their feet in their mouths talking of banning Facebook but perhaps that will make many young people sit up and wonder whats happening out there
Nice political letter RG, regardless of the reality of the political environment.
Your/Greens worst enemy is Liarbour who see you taking their votes, and when it comes time for coalition (which won't be 2014) they can keep the Greens at arms length as Helen did. That's because the Greens have nicely painted themselves into a corner.
The minor party with the most leverage at present appear to be the Maori Party who can swing both ways if required. That should get their voters the most concessions come coalition time.
Labour MPs such as Jones and supporters like Martin McGregor certainly make the formation of a sound coalition more difficult. Surely they don't believe that we are still operating a FFP system here in NZ. It seems that they do.
The present Green MPs and leaders especially, Paranormal, are too astute to paint themselves into a corner, as you describe. They are also well received by a far broader public than ever before but it's those red dinosaurs that, as you correctly describe, are the Greens worst enemies,mostly because, blessed with even a smidgen more brain-power, they wouldn't be. The Right wingers and their faux-outrage and scaremongering are bone fide, and act as expected. In fact, they add greatly to the enjoyment of the tussel to get Russel into the PM's seat :-)
Key is lying again today, this is from National Radio's website
"
Ms Turei said their behaviour amounts to bullying, but Prime Minister John Key said that's not the case.
"Go back and play the file footage and see who says the hardest, often nastiest comments. Almost always comes from the Greens - they go really hard."
The nastiest comments!! Crap! When was the last time the Greens called someone devil beasts? Are RadioNZ journalists incompetent or have they also been hoodwinked by the smiling assassin? Why wasn't Key asked for evidence to back up that statement?
Sometimes this all feels like the Dr Who episodes featuring the Slitheen.
("the Slitheen are notorious criminals from another world. Ruthless and well organised, they infiltrate the British government by compressing their huge bodies into human skin suits, enabling them to impersonate MPs"- ref the Dr Who character encyclpedia)
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