As we all know the latest Fairfax poll has shown a huge lead for the National Party. Now I’m of the opinion it’s probably a rogue poll and we could argue that point (and methodology, and trends, etc) until the cows come home but I’m interested in something else. If this poll was hypothetically the final count on election day it would mean National would have a clear mandate to govern alone.
This surprises me because National has provided very little policy and hasn’t distinguished itself much in terms of anything but “time for a change” rhetoric. In fact the bulk of the reasons I hear people claim they want a National government is because they don’t want a Labour one and outside of unfounded rhetoric I don’t hear much reason why.
We have a lot of intelligent and thoughtful rightwing commenters on this site and I figure they might be able to elucidate something for me. If you are one of these commenters what I want you to tell me is this:
You’ll be voting for National come election day. What will you be voting for them to change and what have you seen from them that leads you to believe they’ll make that change?
And I’ll say again I’m not interested in banal mutterings about “Klark” and “Helengrad”. I want to know what you will be voting for, not against.
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