Murray McCully's weekly newsletter this week focuses on National's foreign affairs discussion paper [PDF] which has seen National proclaim itself as adopting "Labour-style" foreign policy in which the differences will be "tonal". Despite this admission by his leader, McCully is still trying to claim that his party hasn't really shiftedits position:
The paper notes that the harsh realities of office have forced the Labour Party closer to the centre ground, well removed from the extremist nonsense talked at Labour Party Conferences in years past.I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to decide which party has moved "closer to the centre ground" - the one which advocated retaining our nuclear-free policy and avoided getting involved in US wars (positions overwhelmingly endorsed by the New Zealand public), or the one which promised that our nuclear-free policy would be "gone by lunchtime" and which would have sent kiwi troops to die for Halliburton in an illegal and immoral war.
