Talk:Peter Dunne
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This is a page that could easily get PoV or result in a edit war, so good to get some disscussion going here. I would agree with the last revision that "supposed" common sense was PoV and should have been removed, but I question the change from tobacco industry to Taiwan so I put tobacco industry back in, but left Taiwan. Personally I have never heard of Peter Dunne supporting Taiwan, but I could be wrong.
Certainly IMHO one of the first things I would think of when considering Peter Dunne is his support for the tobbaco industry (for example he infamously described Smokefree legislation tobacco control officers as "Health Nazis").
I also added "opposition to drug law reform" since that is another well known policy (indeed United Future made it one of their three non-negoiatable conditions of ageeing to support the current government, that there would be no changes in the drugs laws).
I also wanted to make clear that the family values and common sense tags are controversial. Definately this is the first two things that you think about when considering Peter Dunne, family values and common sense, but it should be recognised that these are only claims that he makes - many people agree that his policies are common sense, but others completely disagree. The way I attempted to do this is rather clumsy and could be changed: "(self-described) family values and common sense."
cheers 203.167.245.16 03:14, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Hey fantastic re-write Vardion. However, I'm not entirely sure that "Today, Dunne generally describes his policies as being based on common sense, and his supporters promote him as sensible and reasonable. Opponents are more inclined to criticise him as a right-wing conservative, pointing to his opposition to drug law reform, his support for the tobacco industry, and his party's emphasis on family values. His history in Parliament is also subject to debate — supporters say that his willingness to work with either side of the House is a sign of reasonableness, while critics accuse him of being opportunistic, and of doing deals with anyone who can offer him something." is really an accurate reflection of the situation. In particular I don't feel that any of drug law reform, tobacco industry, family values or opposition to civil union bill which I'm about to add can really be seen as a defining a party on the left to right wing continuium so can't really say "criticise him as a right-wing conservative, pointing to" ... the point I was trying to get across above was that his opponents think he is lacking common-sense in his policies and unreasonable in the way he deals with other politicians and parties. - Drstuey 11:16, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
