Recently, after admitting to a good friend of ours that we really did not understand the term, left and right political parties, he told us this.
Right-leaning political parties look after the rich; and the left-leaning parties are the ones who look after the ordinary people.
No doubt this will be challenged by some, so the debate should be interesting.
R McGuinness, Tauranga City.


2 comments
Hmm
Posted on 16-11-2013 01:31 | By Johnnyredneck
You will also find if you do a bit of research, that things have moved quite dramatically to the right over the last few decades. What was considered right wing 20 years ago would be considered centrist now.
Politics: Understanding left and right
Posted on 16-11-2013 12:39 | By algail
Ahh Mr McGuinness what a wonderful dream . There is not a political party in power anywhere in the world that thinks of the rich or the poor. All politicians think about is ' what will get me more votes”. Politicians will do whatever it takes to get a vote outside of that I doubt if there is a cell working in the brain that can think of anything else. Think about a promise by a politician is made to get your vote and that's it. Look what recently happened in the USA a country just about brought to its knees by an unscrupulous group of politicians without a thought for the rich or the poor. There could be an exception to the above and that exception could be the 1law4all party. Alastair Bethlehem
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