General Election
Sir,—There is no doubt about it, the Labour Government has started its 1990 election campaign. Suddenly, Mr Lange is “buttering up” and hobnobbing with the farmers, which must be the first real contact since he had his radio aerial twisted by them years ago. Mr Palmer is quietly retreating from the Treaty of Waitangi “hot potato” that he helped create. Mr Caygill is a source of constant encouragement about the fragile economic upturn being close, yet it still seems more like a mirage which we never get to. Just watch the gap in the polls close now that the “old” Labour Party desperately patches up the visible outward damage to seek reelection. The voters will not be fooled this time, or will they? Even the huge Telecom profit, which is nothing more than outrageous indirect taxation, does not upset the passive public, who seem to just accept it and like it without questioning. — Yours, etc.,
W. J. C. ROYDS. July 19, 1989.
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