ext_2569: text: "a straight account is difficult, so let me define seven wishes" image: man on steps. (how do they make the right decisions)
Tui ([identity profile] labellementeuse.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] labellementeuse 2007-02-06 11:23 pm (UTC)

Oh well, the Nats always make me want to vomit. :P So I didn't notice anything particular (and yeah, I missed the news, heheh.) On the other hand I don't think it's completely useless, I think there is a genuine desire of at least some politicians to do better.

Probably not John Key, though. Hello, abolishing the Maori seats? Sigh. >.> I prefer Key to Brash but he hasn't exactly won me over, put it that way.

Hah. :-/ There's a good article in the dom post today about a Vic Uni prof who says that New Zealand has basically succumbed to something called penal populism - irrational public desire for longer, tougher sentences, even when it's inappropriate.

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