General Election

Press, 19 December 1981, Page 16

General Election

Sir,—One of the great perils for Social Credit democracy lies in the correlation between the aims and structures of the two “elites” — National and Labour. They are not in conflict, they are complementary and one could conceivably aid the other. Social Credit has undergone persistent ostracism at the hands of the two main parties, who are ready to use all the weaponry of bureaucratic guile, political stringpulling and even moral blackmail to achieve victory no matter what the cost. Fallaciously they are lauded by absurd concept-ridden propagandists who, programmed for wrong-headed, blinkered resistance to uncomfortable original thought, generate more heat than light. In concert, National and Labour offer a salutory demonstration of spiralling costs coupled with double bluff economies. And who pays? None other than the innocents who put them in power. The triennial "grab for the purse strings” becomes farcical. — Yours, etc., B. L. RAMSBOTTOMISHERWOOD. December 14, 1981.

Sir,—J. F. Garvey’s reluctance to accept the extreme unpopularity of the National Government and more particularly of its disagreeable leader is almost certainly because of his frustration in having to witness six years of Muldoonomic disaster, divisiveness, and default in providing progressive government. The claim in his letter of December 14 that the country really wanted a National government and Mr Muldoon as Prime Minister will bring a smile to the. faces of the 61% of the electorate who voted against both. Mr Garvey should face the fact that his party governs only because of an inequitable electoral system and seat boundaries, and that even with that advantage may still lose its wafer thin majority after the Taupo recount.—Yours, etc.,

D. J. O’ROURKE. December 17. 1981.