Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Power for the sake of it is worthless

According to Home Paddock this is what John Key directed at Hone Harawira at Ratana yesterday. Home Paddock says it could just as well apply to Ratana;
“I say to the critics what can you achieve from opposition, and the answer is nothing. You achieve things when you are part of the solution not when you are solely carping on about the problems,”


That is the short view.

Effective opposition, in all forms, shapes public thinking. Effective opposition keeps a government in check.

And if the "solution" is not the right one, why would you want to be part of it anyway?

(While I have no sympathy for Harawira's world view, when he asks what National has done for Maori, it's hard to think of something. He will find a good deal of company with those Maori who still believe that the government is the be all and end all for their aspirations.)

4 comments:

Adolf Fiinkensein said...

If the solution is not the right one, you've got more chance of changing it from inside the tent than you do squawking from the sidelines.

Seamonkey Madness said...

He's given them the Whauna Ora boon doggle. That would be a start I would have thought Lindsay?

Seamonkey Madness said...
This comment has been removed by the author.
Seamonkey Madness said...

*Whānau*