Subliminal Messages

It is instructive to examine the subliminal messages sent out to undecided voters by the Labour and National party leaders when they released their respective emergency redundancy relief packages. I think they throw into stark relief, the real attitudes of Labour versus National. A veritable microcosm. So much for the idiots from the far right who insultingly bleat about National being 'Labour Lite.'



Labour appears:-

Mean - excluding a large number of battling Kiwis from their scheme.

Grudging - if National had not pre-announced its scheme, does anybody seriously believe Labour would have? No of course not. Remember, no policy until after the election.

Out of touch - only people completely out of touch with the reality of life in mortgage alley could exclude a single income family with kids or someone in work for four years and eleven months from receiving assistance.

Profligate - the failure to means test emergency assistance is a remarkable lapse of plain common sense. That's MY money they are throwing around. They haven't learned how to stop spending.




National appears:-

Compassionate, generous and inclusive - reaching out to the widest range of Kiwi battlers.

Innovative and keen - this is new thinking, reflecting an ability to come up with genuine ways to solve new problems.

Right in touch - seen to identify with ordinary NZers. Instantly aware of the pressures facing mortgage belt battlers.

Fiscally prudent - carefully costed and targetted at only those with a real need.