As we type this, the Third Reading debate for the Electoral Amendment Bill is underway. By the time you read this, the "odious" Electoral Finance Act will have been consigned to the wastepaper bin, and to the ravages of history.
Another National election promise has been kept, and thanks to the Greens calling for a party vote on every vote so far, Keeping Stock can report that Helen Clark, Michael Cullen and Annette King will be recorded as having voted to support the repeal of the legislation that just may have cost them the election.
Today, what goes around has indeed come around! Everyone who opposed the passage of the Electoral Finance Bill in 2007 should charge their glasses and drink a bumper toast tonight - to free speech!
2 comments:
Now that is a great idea.
Having a bit of the red stuff right this moment, and I am grateful for the repeal of the hateful EFA, but I for one won't feel that full democracy has been restored to New Zealand until that damnable anti-smacking bill is burned at the stake. If we're not capable of discipiling our children without the state's interference, then I can't see how we're capable of handling such a dangerous thing as free speech.
Nevertheless, it is a good day:) and one deserving a toast.
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