Thursday, July 05, 2007

Why?

National Party leader John Key wants to take a more ethnically diverse range of MPs into the next election and is set to make the topic a priority when the party's list rankings are decided next year.

Any thoughts for merit? This is collectivist claptrap. Exactly the type of idea the Left would embrace. Don't forget women, John. And I don't think you've got a lesbian yet, or a Muslim, or a dope smoker. All groups needing representation in a special interests, what's-in-it-for-me parliament.

The more things change the more they stay the same.

2 comments:

FAIRFACTS MEDIA said...

Can anyone find him a disabled lesbian muslim?


DarrenG

Anonymous said...

To be fair, this is democracy. If a significant number of voters want to vote for people on the basis of their ethnicity then a mainstream party would be unwise not to offer candidates who appeal to those voters.

He could of course consider having some policy goals, but then to be fair again voters appear not to care vary much on that score. Bryan Caplan's book goes to the heart of the matter.

Dave Christian