What’s going on? What’s the motivation?
The Labour government and it rag tag collection of coalition partners ram unpopular legislation down our throats (e.g. the anti-smacking law, the Electoral Finance Act which bans free speech and now a bill which will give the Health Commissioner the ability to tell the media what they can report about health issues - talk about Big Brother) yet when 70 or 80 percent of the population support the banning of cell phones while driving the Government doesn’t want to legislate.
Something stinks here; either that or I’m just stupid and can’t see the obvious moral issues involved with banning cell phones whilst driving. Clearly such issues are vastly more important than the aforementioned legislation. I mean really, what’s so important about freedom of speech?
This country is going to the dogs and Helen Clark and Michael Cullen are standing on the poop deck telling us how wonderful everything is. You would have to be crazy to vote for Labour in the next election; not that National’s much better. National won’t do what’s necessary to really get New Zealand ahead because they know that such policies won’t win votes with the majority middle of the road voters who can’t see the forest for the trees.