Labour was once proudly the party for the workers; the triers and the battlers.
That’s how our oldest living generation remembers them. But, over the decades they’ve morphed into the party that espouses entitlements and rights before responsibilities. They shut down free-thinkers with political correctness, but champion free-riders with their promotion of generous, unconditional social security. If you doubt me, consider this recent parliamentary exchange between social development minister Paula Bennett, and Labour’s Jacinda Ardern, complaining about sole-parent benefit reforms:
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