that Labour has. Cant win by telling us the things you will do so you spend your time telling us how bad eveyone else is....not a great plan. fureongo, so to extend your thinking therefore, we should abandon the primary role of opposition which is to point out the evil/bad/corrupt/dishonest/useless because it keeps happening because six months out from an election you want to hear explicit policy detail? Yours is not a great plan, yet. It is coming, it is coming, it is coming. Meantime, National and Act are evil/bad/corrupt/dishonest/useless, as you say. Actually furango, the opposition parties have given much more of an idea of their upcoming policies than National had done at a similar period in the last election cycle. The NZ news media were pretty fed up with the lack of polcies coming from National. I was reminded of this by a recently released US diplomatic cable: &lt;blockquote.Journalists have told Post's Media Specialist that they are becoming very frustrated with National's lack of stated policy and its unwillingness to take positions on issues of public interest. Meanwhile, at that time, NAct were going all out attacking Clark & Labour with all kinds of smears (some of it initiated by blogs, talkback etc, or by Rortney to distance the attacks from Key & National). Remember all the attacks on Clark re Owen Glen, NZ First/Winnie etc.... the continued personal smears & whispers? Labour are much more upfront & owning their attacks on other parties, and if you'd been