Comments on: The Outlaw Pages: Where’s Our Government?

By: Ian Morine

Ian Morine — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:01:55 +0000

I thoroughly enjoyed reading your article, the best I have read since the last election. How quickly some voters changed the government and how long we are going to regret that decision.

By: Outlaw

Outlaw — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 05:02:16 +0000

Ordinarily I would have no problem with MPs enjoying a summer break. I do believe they work bloody hard, having worked in Parliament I am the first to acknowledge that their hours are punishing. However, we face a once in three generation economic crisis and I would have thought that after nine years in Opposition the Nats would have been raring to go. They’ve slipped into the old born to rule mindset far too quickly for my liking. And maybe the fact that I haven’t had a holiday at all yet made me a bit, um, curmudgeonly!

By: Ana

Ana — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 08:49:51 +0000

Presumably before he left for Hawaii he did manage a walk-on part on TV One’s new Breakfast promotion currently airing. Which is sort of like a reassuring New Year’s address to the nation during time of much forboding… er, not.

New Zealand grinds to a halt from late December and starts to ramp up again late January; meanwhile one half of the population are trying to get things moving again and are treading water, waiting for the other half of the economy to return to work.

By: David MacGregor

David MacGregor — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 08:31:36 +0000

You make a couple of good points, especially regarding the example of our Minister of Tourism not leading by example.

But, on the whole, you may be expecting too much while the parliament is in its summer hols. Never mind that Innocents in Gaza are being butchered by Israel’s wholely unhinged response to Hamas rockets – while NZ refuses to express the view of the majority that it must stop. Our position seems remarkably like the refusal of Americans to confirm or deny we that we once took such exception to.