jseni01d

With 90% counted it's going to be Labour and the Greens or United Future, all of whom have pretty good policies from a prospective immigrants' perspective. It's sad to see 10% going to NZ First, but Peters seems to be a skilfull populist, plus Labour made a hash of the campaign, so perhaps it's not so surprising.

Basically, it looks like not much will change. Maybe United Future, with their desire for "60,000 immigrants a year", can persuade Labour to lower the passmark a couple of points!

John Senior

Ian Guy

The Winston Peters Blue Rinse NZ First = Tauranga, retirement centre of Asia Pacific.
Totally surreal party in that they don't want immigrants, but want good health care
for the elderly, and since about 25% of the NZ healthcare workforce is British, Dutch
or South African his policy is flawed.

Some Aussie research indicated that those usually most opposed to immigration are
those one generation away from arriving themselves, e.g half of Tauranga!

"jseni01d" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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    > newstartnz wrote:
    > > Election result imminent
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?sto-
    > > ryID=2197486&thesection=news&thesubsection=general Will be interesting to see
    > > who gets in and to guess what immigration policy changes there might be...!
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    > With 90% counted it's going to be Labour and the Greens or United Future, all of
    > whom have pretty good policies from a prospective immigrants' perspective. It's sad
    > to see 10% going to NZ First, but Peters seems to be a skilfull populist, plus
    > Labour made a hash of the campaign, so perhaps it's not so surprising.
    >
    > Basically, it looks like not much will change. Maybe United Future, with their
    > desire for "60,000 immigrants a year", can persuade Labour to lower the passmark a
    > couple of points!
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    > John Senior
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