Disappointed over Drinking Age Vote
This morning I was disappointed over the vote last night to raise the drinking age to 20.
Not disappointed about the outcome - I supported retaining 18 years as the legal age - but that the MP who set up National's Liberal Wing, Chris Finlayson, voted for the increase.
Being a Social Liberal is not a 'Yes, but ...' choice. You either trust people to make their own decisions without Government interference, or you don't. You also know that not everyone will handle the responsibility, but accept that denying choices to others is not a solution to their recklessness.
What's even more galling is social conservatives like Bill English and Peter Dunne voted against the age increase.
Not disappointed about the outcome - I supported retaining 18 years as the legal age - but that the MP who set up National's Liberal Wing, Chris Finlayson, voted for the increase.
Being a Social Liberal is not a 'Yes, but ...' choice. You either trust people to make their own decisions without Government interference, or you don't. You also know that not everyone will handle the responsibility, but accept that denying choices to others is not a solution to their recklessness.
What's even more galling is social conservatives like Bill English and Peter Dunne voted against the age increase.
posted by Michael at
1:28 PM
3 Comments:
Sorry to burst your bubble Michael, but the Blue Libs was not set up to really be liberal. It was set up to make the ex ACT members who reluctantly came to National, feel more at home.
At least three Blue Libs members voted for the bill and John Key also voted for it while Brash voted against. It proves that at the very first hurdke National cannot be liberal, if they had an ounce of liberal in them they wouldn't of tried to kill off ACT at the last election.
By
Heine, at 12:32 PM
hurdle I mean, not hurdke :)
By
Heine, at 12:32 PM
He's a fake. When he set up this 'liberal' group he didn't know whether to call it 'liberal' or 'conservative liberal'. Says it all.
Bill English, on the other hand, doesn't pretend to any false labels.
By
Lindsay, at 8:39 PM
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