National selects one of the Hollow Man as a candidate

New National list candidate 'Hollow Man', says Clark
Steven Joyce, National's 2005 election campaign manager and a millionaire, is to stand on the party's list. Prime Minister Helen Clark was quick to condemn the nomination, saying Mr Joyce's appointment demonstrated that National still had a far-right agenda it wasn't being honest about. Mr Joyce, who was also the party's general manager, was one of the key background players featured in Nicky Hager's 2006 book The Hollow Men, which made disclosures about former leader Don Brash's links with the Exclusive Brethren. The book detailed Mr Joyce's involvement in meetings with the shadowy religious group, in using controversial Australian political strategy company Crosby-Textor and approving billboards such as Iwi-Kiwi. The book also said Mr Joyce offered to pay for lobby-group Fairtax's direct marketing campaign and went into how donations were gathered.

Well. Well, well – the cries from the right that ‘we have changed’ from the fall out caused by the Hollow Man has been shown up for what a hollow claim that is with the nomination of one of the main players in the Hollow Men, Steven Joyce. By advancing Joyce, this shows that National have no intention of changing their tactics from the last time and that what we are seeing is a repeat, think about it, last election the hard right Don Brash was spun as a moderate, 3 years later John Key is spun the same way, last election National used the inoculation tactic of declaring all privatization would occur in a second term, 3 years later National are claiming the same thing, last election National had a secret radical right wing privatization agenda they kept hidden, 3 years later we have the nomination of one of the architects of those tactics nominated for the Party list. National are still a privatization in public service clothing.