Eamon Sloan

  Election Thoughts This is the week before voting opens. I decided quite a while back that my vote would not go to Labour. As I don’t have many votes left in the tank the vote has in a sense become more valuable. I had said to myself many times over the years that it would be a cold day in hell before I voted National. Well the cold day is almost here and the metaphorical temperature is falling. The choices are limited and many of us are not far out from having to front up with a decision. My thoughts have been moving more in the direction of NZ First. National will almost certainly not reach the level required to govern alone and must take one or more partners. National and ACT have some unpalatable policies and may be harking back to the slash and burn policies of the early nineties along with doses of beneficiary and super annuitant bashing. Here we go again. National? It has always been the party of hidden agendas and has like most governments often relied on voter apath...