Alliance looking forward to election campaign
Jim Anderton MP Sun Sep 26 1999
The Alliance said today's announcement of the election date couldn't have come soon enough
'New Zealanders are tired of National and frightened of ACT,' Alliance leader Jim Anderton said.
'The policy
platform which forms the basis of the Alliance election
campaign represents a huge step forward towards a more co
operative and fair New Zealand.
'National/Act have
attacked every sector of the country in the last nine
years.
'The sick, the old and the young have all had
to pay a greater proportion of the cost of participating in
their own society while National/Act have given away tax
cuts to those on very high incomes.
'They have run
this country into the ground. We have the highest foreign
debt we have ever had and the economy has shrunk in three
out of six quarters since Mrs Shipley became Prime Minister.
She has been nothing short of a disaster
'The lateness
of election day shows that the National/Act government is in
real trouble and knows it. The National party was clearly
divided even on the choice of election day.
'National
will be concentrating on the negatives in this election
campaign. That is because they have run out of ideas, run
out of steam and they have run out of time,' Jim Anderton
said.