Thoughts on Don Brash's speech

National’s Vision For New Zealand

The National Party seeks a safe, prosperous and successful New Zealand that creates opportunities for all New Zealanders to reach their personal goals and dreams.

We believe this will be achieved by building a society based on the following values:

• Loyalty to our country, its democratic principles and our Sovereign as Head of State
• National and personal security
• Equal citizenship and equal opportunity
• Individual freedom and choice
• Personal responsibility
• Competitive enterprise and rewards for achievement
• Limited government
• Strong families and caring communities
• Sustainable development of our environment

The liberal elite have hammered Don Brash for telling the truth about a few things again, like we can’t have a country run on a race based system, and we need to lift our economic performance.

What they havent yet worked out is the extremely popular Don Brash was just explaining a few National Party Values. If the MSM could get off their arse they would be able to compare and contrast Don’s speech to what is on the National web site. New Zealand has to get past knee-jerk commentary int he press masquerading as journalism and we need to have a mature debate around all the issues that Don Brash raises. If National are unwilling to have that discussion then maybe Phil Goff is right and we need a new party willing to grasp the nettle and sort out a few sacred cows without going jelly-kneed at the prospect. You know what though, sacred cows make the best hamburgers.

It’s a pity that other members of the National party and in particular the Prime Minister and the pretender, Simon Power, can’t actually see that they are selling National’s core values down the river when they institute their liberal elite agenda.

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  • alchemyst

    In this instance I actually agree with Don Brash. It is insane that we have race based political parties (with their own voting regions) in the 21st century.
    2 points:
    1. in theory a decent (yes I realise the word decent and politician are oxymoran in most instances) person should be able to be elected on their own merits.
    2. if ANY other ethnic group decided to have a political party it would be slammed as racist!

  • robf

    Look around the world everywhere you have a race based or religious based political system or for that matter a minority trying to control the majority apartheid, it ends badly.
    What do we have a modern apartheid party that is race based with criminal gang connections so close you could call them the political wing of organised crime.
    It will all end badly.

  • chiefsfan73

    The right is dead. Politics is only for the hand wringing left. Brash is yesterdays man in that respect. I agree that socially and economically NZ can and should do better. However pollies are concerned over winning the centre, they have sold out their political roots. The thing I don’t get is that when Don lead the Nats out of political oblivion he did so espousing the same traditional National values he is now decrying the lack of. Although he did not win, the huge swing he generated effectively gave John Key the licence to withdraw the Nats and New Zealand from the left of centre. That Key has more discernably embraced the left is bewildering to me, as no doubt it is frustrating to those who voted for the Nats.

  • moolooman

    I support what chiefsfan73 says on the mere basis of his/her handle.