Sun, 05/03/2009 - 18:04 — root

Since the October elections, the NACT (National + ACT) government which was elected has been moving to push its policy agenda at record speed. These right wing parties won majority control in the house of representatives by painting the existing Labour-led government as wanting to run a 'nanny state' which was taxing the country into the ground.

However, the types of policies we have been seeing are not really what the people have voted for. I'm sure that the people who voted for National didn't intend vote for most of the poor policy which has been pushed through. At least, I voted for Richard Worth (National) to be the Epsom MP, and I continue to be shocked nearly every day at what National is doing to this country.

I have compiled a list of some of the things the NACT government have done that ordinary voters probably didn't think they were voting for. These are all either acts which have been passed by the government, or parts of government bills that are going through the process: