Cullen wrong on tax, Again

Tax is the issue for the 1999 election.

“Cullen’s attempts to down-play the importance of the tax issue shows that Labour is running scared on this issue. Their polls tell them that Labour has mis-judged the mood of the electorate on tax. Labour MPs fail to understand that no-one likes it when the Government takes money out of their pockets,” said National List MP, Annabel Young.

“Cullen failed when he tried to manipulate the tax numbers but he has finally realised that it is the idea of paying money to the government is a big electoral turn-off. “

Annabel Young says that Labour has forgotten the message that the Alliance got at the last election. “At the last election, Alliance ran on higher taxes and they were punished for it. Surely Cullen’s memory stretches back to 1996.”

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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>>