Finland Facts - More Unemployment and Farm Subsidies
Channel: The BFD
Date: 2012-04-04

n his first (and only) speech, the invisible Labour Leader David Shearer said he would try to make New Zealand more like Finland.

He forgot to mention, among other things, that Finland has higher unemployment than New Zealand, it still has farm subsidies, and many there still resent the 90s reforms enacted by the Leader that Shearer says he admires.

Finland is not the Scandinavian paradise that Labour pretends it is.  It has its own set of problems.