"Labour needs to declare their position regarding the Alliance tax proposals," said National List MP, Hon Peter Gresham today.

While Labour are prepared to count on the support of Alliance in order to gain the treasury benches they are by implication accepting the Alliance tax agenda, which includes such things as capital gains tax, stamp and estate duty and land tax.

"Higher personal taxes as proposed by Labour and expansion of the tax base as proposed by Alliance will kill economic growth, led to higher unemployment for the unskilled and exodus for actual and potential high earners" said Mr Gresham.

Jim Anderton is prepared to be up front on the way Alliance will fund their promises. Unless Michael Cullen emphatically rejects Alliance tax plans Labour is tarred with the Anderton brush.

Labour can not be Government without Alliance and the price for their support will cost this country dearly if voters are gulled by the Labour/Alliance promises.

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Gordon Campbell: On the Sony cyber attack

Given the layers of meta-irony involved, the saga of the Sony cyber attack seemed at the outset more like a snarky European art film than a popcorn entry at the multiplex.

Yet now with (a) President Barack Obama weighing in on the side of artistic freedom and calling for the US to make a ‘proportionate response’quickly followed by (b) North Korea’s entire Internet service going down, and with both these events being followed by (c) Sony deciding to backtrack and release The Interview film that had made it a target for the dastardly North Koreans in the first place, then ay caramba…the whole world will now be watching how this affair pans out. More>>