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Time people came first, not sectional interests

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3 Aug, 2023 09:20 AMQuick Read

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A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.

A109 Light Utility Helicopter flight with mayor Gisborne City from the air in November 2023.

The National Party was formed in 1935 by conservative businessmen and farmers. For them, business comes first, then farmers. People come next. In this regard, they are dangerous.

Left-wing parties are the same.

Call me naive, unrealistic or any other adjective, but isn’t it about time people came first, not sectional economic and religious interest?

People were put/made on this Earth to help each other share and work together.

About time political groups gave up arguing and worked together for the benefits of people.

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Put people first. This has been practically successful in some Scandinavian countries.

People should be first.

Stop bickering, work together for all people.

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I will be rubbished, made fun of and called everything in the book.

People . . . people, not narrow interests, matter.

Government is for the people, of the people, and by the people.

B. Maguire

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