The YES lobby were upset that Helen Clark and Labour wasted 9 million dollars by delaying the smacking referendum. The result justifies every dollar.
Now John Key wants to do nothing, but will go through the motions of appearing to do something, anything, but make a change to the legislation.
So lets get another 300,000 signatures (as if the 1 million plus last Friday wasn't enough!) and force another referendum.
This time the question can be something like "does the law need to be changed so that a smack is not illegal?"
When we have the 300,000 signatures we explain to John that he and parliament can stop stuffing around and actually do the job they were elected to do, or HE and NATIONAL waste another 9 million dollars.
However, by the time the signatures have been presented to parliament, and they have dithered over it, it will be just about election time. Does he really want to risk revisiting this at election time? Just imagine the pressure a second referendum question would generate.
If John Key does not listen NOW and change the law, then he risks a second referendum. This time however, the citizens will be voting not just to reverse a badly worded law, but to tell the government they do not appreciate being ignored.
Key better think through his current "strategy" of making no changes to the law.
Now John Key wants to do nothing, but will go through the motions of appearing to do something, anything, but make a change to the legislation.
So lets get another 300,000 signatures (as if the 1 million plus last Friday wasn't enough!) and force another referendum.
This time the question can be something like "does the law need to be changed so that a smack is not illegal?"
When we have the 300,000 signatures we explain to John that he and parliament can stop stuffing around and actually do the job they were elected to do, or HE and NATIONAL waste another 9 million dollars.
However, by the time the signatures have been presented to parliament, and they have dithered over it, it will be just about election time. Does he really want to risk revisiting this at election time? Just imagine the pressure a second referendum question would generate.
If John Key does not listen NOW and change the law, then he risks a second referendum. This time however, the citizens will be voting not just to reverse a badly worded law, but to tell the government they do not appreciate being ignored.
Key better think through his current "strategy" of making no changes to the law.