Gadzooks!
Today's Herald editorial is a stunning rebuke to the 85% of their readers who, for some bizarre reason or another, refuse to understand the 'anti-smacking' bill. It's come a bit from left-field, but is quite refreshing to read. As it points out, and not many noticed, Family First's survey shows that far less children are being smacked now than before, and still there has not been the flood of parents being criminalised, nor any increase in youth crime, as predicted.

Even if the bill, for now, doesn't stop the extreme likes of the Kahui case, in the long term as attitudes change, it will. Call it social engineering if you want, I'm not against calling a spade a spade, but sometimes society does need to be led. That's why we call them leaders. If we wanted politicians to follow the exact will of the majority, we wouldn't need politicians, only referenda.

But the Herald's idiotic comments about the cost of Housing NZ's little trip are shameless. They even drag out a tenant and say the cost of the trip would pay her rent for seven years. They forget to point out under a National government charging market rents, it would pay for much less than half that.

That's it. I'm gonna go play some Battlefront II.