National or Labour?

National for me...for sooo many reasons..but a friend of mine pointed out that National will get rid of WFF....surey not? but I;d rather that than Labour:) sorry it's one of THOSE topics:) though they have done some good things!

Neither, but in the absence of a good alternative (coz no matter what Willie thinks the Greens will never be the majority party *rolls eyes*) I'd have to say it's time for a change, and I quite like John Key.

LOL at the image of Helen Clark with a stick up her bum

Funnily enough Willie and I had this same discussion/argument at 4am, I was far more interested in sleep but he was wide awake and all political, which considering he never exercises his right to vote is laughable.

There both as bad as each other I don't want either of them to win.

I don't like John Key either. Can't tell you why, I just don't.

I usually vote a minority party to throw a spanner in the works but it's pretty close this year so I guess I'll have to choose between one of the biggies.

I'm not keen on National's take from the poor and give to the rich policies either and I need WFF for another few years so I'll probably vote labour to keep that around.

Labour

I do think that National would either scrap or reduce WFF severley to deliver their tax cuts, how they are trying to beat labours tax cuts

I can't see them taking WFF away, it's existed in one form or another since long before it's current incarnation, before there was WFF there was Family Support for low income families, the WFF just extended the number of people who were eligible.
National are promising other benefits for low/middle income earners for example tax cuts to put $50 more per week in the pockets of the average working family.
At the risk of sounding completely anti-welfare, I've always voted ACT in the past, I like their hard line stance on social issues, but I haven't heard much out of them recently that inspires me.

hmmm i dont know,

Yes i do! vote for me ! i'll be primeminister instead

We have just been talking about this here at work....basically it's time for a change in who runs the government, but all of us still prefer Helen over John Keys, I just think he is focussing on the wrong things. The whole tax cut thing in the budget doesn't make a huge amount of difference to me personally - maybe $10 a week in the hand if I'm lucky - and of course, with no children, WFF doesn't apply just yet (maybe next year!!) so there's not a whole lot of apples that are enticing me either way at the moment. Gutted about the student allowance thresholds going up - last year I was a whole $20 over the threshold based on Mum and Dad's income.

Labour.