Don, is Labour still destroying New Zealand?

When he took over as Leader of National, Don Brash said:

"I believed then and I believe even more strongly now that the Labour-Anderton-Green Government is slowly but surely destroying New Zealand.

It is destroying the New Zealand in which we grew up. It is destroying the New Zealand which we all love today and, most importantly, it is destroying the New Zealand that with leadership we could be."

Is this still his opinion today? They are not words Don has uttered much since. 

I would be interested to hear how record economic growth, record high employment and low unemployment, a flourishing of the arts and popular culture, the beginnings of a debate on the nation's future and so on, all add up to "destroying New Zealand."

Can anyone help me understand?

Comments

[Greg Stephens]

It is fairly obvious Jordan.
Don likes people being unemployed. Then companies can hire them for $1 an hour. And they won't care about culture because after 20 hour long shifts, they don't want to go to museums, so that doesn't matter.
Don doesn't want a debate on the NZ future because his vision is all doom against Labour who looks towards a better future.

[sagenz]

hubris again jordan. warned you about that before. helengrad has done wonders for high brow culture.With other peoples money. excuse me if funding somebody's hip hop research tour of the world is OTT. it is an oxymoron that government can promote pop culture.
labour had sod all to do with the economic growth in nz. the world is growing rapidly and nz commodity prices are high. the economic infrastuctural changes were made years ago.