The big bucks – and the obvious place for an agenda of small government and social renewal - are in social services, which has always been a politically fertile era for National. To avoid scaring voters, National has shelved most of the welfare bashing tendencies that formed the core of Don Brash’s Orewa II speech in 2005 - but given the way the economy has been heading south for most of this year, those issues seem ripe for a comeback. ...
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The big bucks – and the obvious place for an agenda of small government and social renewal - are in social services, which has always been a politically fertile era for National. To avoid scaring voters, National has shelved most of the welfare bashing tendencies that formed the core of Don Brash’s Orewa II speech in 2005 - but given the way the economy has been heading south for most of this year, those issues seem ripe for a comeback. ...