really needs is a new catch phrase, a meme to get into peoples heads so that when ever they're having an issue, they'll think Labour and vote Labour. How about: Labour, the discriminating party. This is an indication of what happens when desperation hits a party. Having made no traction over the last 4 years, has appointed weak leadership and the moderates within a party start to lose their voice. The lunatic fringe gain more airtime. What these idiots fail to understand is that the battle for parliament is won with by attracting the swinging voter. The moderate in the centre of the bell curve. Act were never able to work that out, it was a concept that completely eluded Brash both as leader of National and as leader of Act and lurching further to the left is simply not the answer for Labour. For Labour to defeat National they have to be seen to be electable and these policies are simply idiotic. I'll contribute to a hard right wing party to add some balance -- you want to lead it or should you and I fight it out to see which of us leads the charge against the rot of socialism. I'd just like one decent right wing party to vote for! I'd be happy if the National Party stopped drifting to the left and returned to its founding principles. These principles won it a long term of government when it was first elected, and they apply just as