Posted on 10/01/2005 7:24:10 PM PDT by Redmen4ever
WELLINGTON : The main opposition National Party conceded defeat to the ruling Labour Party in the New Zealand election on Saturday, after the final count showed ...
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http://www.electionresults.govt.nz/partystatus.html
Is this good for us?
I wonder how many corpses had to vote to make this happen. We have Demonrats, they have Labor.
New Zealand is heavily socialist. It's a very different culture from Australia.
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No it's a big disaster. Sigh.
No, it means the nationalists lost out to the socialists in a squeaker (or by fraud).
Damn shame, whatever became of the coast watcher spirit.
"With the counting of the special ballots".
That`s also how its done in the U.S.. There always seems to be "special" ballots that magically appear in storerooms, rivers, trunks of cars , back alleys , or simply out of thin air.
About the only thing New Zealand is more socialist on than Australia is foreign policy. On everything else, the Aussies are far more to the left. In fact Aussies just seem to accept every stupid law and regulation the government throws at them. Ban firecrackers? Why thats a good idea, some kid might lose a finger. Regulate what clothes cab drivers wear? Well, we can't trust the blokes to choose what is appropriate themselves. $18/hr minimum wage? Mandatory voting? The list goes on and on.
I thought we had it bad here in Canada until I visited Australia.
,,, another three years of tongue in groove dictatorship.
Agreed:
New Zealand's economic policy is about the most neoclassical monetarist one can get. Industry and agriculture, especially agriculture, receive no subsidies from the government and New Zealand has very low tariffs, which it is rapidly phasing out. Its government is reasonably small and is, I would wager, very efficient by American standards. Its foreign policy is definitely left-wing, but this has more to do with New Zealand's isolation and not wanting to be pushed around, than it has to do with political ideology. Kiwis are very pragmatic. Its social policy is socialist in a number of ways - but its also very libertarian - the country has legalized prostitution - and there's nothing socialist in that.
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