John Capaner

It’s good to see this Caring-Sharing-Government, (CSG) via the Department of Health, closing kindergartens due to an asbestos scare.

After all, this Government will need those children to be around for another 10 years or so, under current legislation, to be able to be introduce them to the benefits of vaping and smoking.

Dave Stewart had a point in his letter (Beacon, November 19), about Roger Douglas and Richard Prebble shafting the Lange Labour government.

That is why you’ll never hear Labour people speak their names with any affection.

The irony being that Mr Douglas’ father was a former Labour MP, and Mr Prebble was out there prior to the election saying he was going to save rail.

As the tone of those letters implies, people are getting twitchy about the current polling of this CSG.

And are starting to reach into their grab bag of slurs against anything to do with Labour.

As for the contretemps of both the Greens and Te Pāti Māori. If the voters do desert them, where do people think their votes are going to go?

Definitely not Act or New Zealand First, the handmaidens to the CSG.

Lastly, the Covid response. As Grant Robertson said, “Not one company or business refused the offer of financial help”.

Which I suppose proves the truth of the saying, “There is no bigger socialist, than a capitalist in financial strife.”

As for all the slurs and epithets thrown at those of us on the left, they’re just water off a duck’s back.