Earlier this year Andrew Marr wrote in the New Statesmen, that Britain's problem was that it wanted Scandinavian levels of Public Services and North American levels of taxation. His view was that Britain was overdue for an honest debate about tax and public spending. In New Zealand, there is a similar challenge.
The online left are outraged that National has ruled out the Māori Party on the basis of a philosophical difference over one person one vote. Many have claimed the Māori Party are not against this. Others have tried for a red herring, that under MMP we have two votes. This is a moronic argument. The
it s always a work in progress. ii it s always a work in progress. if it was right for the new zealand government to do it, wouldn t it be right for king charles to do it? like i said, other countries, it s really a matter for them to decide what s appropriate in the context. these issues are often tricky, and recently one of your ministers quit tojoin the maori recently one of your ministers quit to join the maori party and wants to join a political movement that was unapologetic about maori political involvement. do you think your party has failed to address this? maori arties has failed to address this? maori parties don t has failed to address this? maori parties don t have has failed to address this? maori parties don t have one has failed to address this? maori parties don t have one view, - has failed to address this? maori | parties don t have one view, they have a variety of different views and you will see that represented in our parliament. we have maori members of par