You Brits think YOUR Labour government is bad?
So far ours has:
1/ Removed our Air Force's strike capability by turning down a cheap deal for F16s, then mothballing ALL of our Skyhawks and Aermacchis without public approval,

2/ Setting up a shonky "Supreme Court" and removing our right of appeal to the Privy council - again, without public approval,

3/ 55c in our $1.88 per litre petrol is tax for roading, but it goes into a "Consolidated Fund" for anything the government wants.... then says its charging a FURTHER tax for roads....,

4/ Signing up to the Kyoto Protocols in the expectation that we'd get something back, but they hadn't done their sums properly and now we will owe big-time,

5/ Taxing us through the arse for 9 years, and with a huge surplus still saying they won't do tax cuts, until after the election...,

6/ Wording legislation so badly that people engaged in terrorist activity (you really don't need an RPG and grenades to go hunting...) can't be charged as terrorists...,

7/ Increasing the bureaucracy spend to the tune of $9b in 9 years...,

8/ Legislating what you can and can't say in an election year,

9/ Having the PM lie about a signed painting being done by her for a charity auction,

10/ Having the PM make her motorcade break the speed limit to get to the airport to catch a flight to a rugby game, then have the police escort and her driver charged with speeding and reckless endangerment,

11/ Loudly and arrogantly proclaim we are nuclear-free when we have lots of radioactive stuff here, and stifling all discussion on nuclear power and turning off coal power stations when once again we may have power blackouts due to hydro lakes having low levels and a number of experts saying hydro alone can't meet our power needs in the next 10 years,

12/ Legislating the Resource Management Act, which in reality is to ensure any development works being planned are able to be tied up in the courts for years and be prohibitively expensive to pursue.... and if it gets Resource Consent, that can still be overturned on the whim of the Minister for the Environment,

13/ The PM being described as a "popular and competent Prime Minister"... by the PM herself.


My pet peeve are incompetent socialists.
Then again, are there any other kind???
(Sebulba continues to fight evil with evil....., Fri 2 May 2008, 7:43, 6 replies)

Ah
You're from New Zealand!

Gimme 6!
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 2 May 2008, 8:05, closed)

Did I miss something...?
"You Brits think YOUR Labour government is bad?"

Yes. That's why we're all moving to New Zealand.
(theweapon never ever bloody anything ever, Fri 2 May 2008, 8:47, closed)

I'd like to pay that for petrol
74p a litre for petrol ...yes please!

Start bitching when you hit $2.83 a litre and the gov is taking $1.63 of that.
Me? Bitter about the price of petrol here...surely not
(cmouse is pondering about life in other jobs, Fri 2 May 2008, 8:49, closed)

7/ Increasing the bureaucracy spend to the tune of $9b in 9 years...,
Ooh that would be lovely!

We've spent an extra trillion quid in ten years. Your lot is just a bunch of amateurs.
(patently Was somewhere else on, Fri 2 May 2008, 9:12, closed)

The grass is SO much greener in upside-down sheep-botherer land.

( jim_bob can herd cats., Fri 2 May 2008, 11:48, closed)

Why people go to Australia
You forgot about the law changes that we couldnt vote on or wanted . Civil unions bill anyone or anti smacking laws. Add in knee jerk reactions and a pm that dreams of a socialist lesbian republic .that sums up this sorry country.
(welgar, Sat 3 May 2008, 4:29, closed)