Hidden agenda or revealed DNA

I wonder about all this fuss over taped interviews at the Ngat's conference whether we are worried about the wrong thing. Key and English maybe right in that they don't have a secret agenda. They may not have a file with top secret National Party plans hidden within. I fear it is not that simple!

What was revealed at the conference was not secret plans but DNA. English and Smith have been guilty of no more than telling the truth; not about any secret plans but about their long held motivations and ideology. Any policy that comes out of a Key English, Smith, McCully led government will be driven by their DNA and while their DNA leaked out in a couple of Freudian slips over the weekend it is no secret.

It is no secret that McCulley was the minister of housing that introduce market rentals sold of housing stock and created extreme poverty and deprivation for many of our most vulnerable.

It is no secret that Mr English has an ideological disposition to selling state owned assets.

It is no secret that Mr Smith broke election promise while he was minister of education. For those with short memories here's how wikipedia record his career.

Dr Smith served as Minister of Education from 1990 until 1996. During this period he implemented a number of changes to the tertiary education sector (universities and technical
institutions). One high-profile change involved a radical increase in student
fees, as recommended by the Todd Report, which the government had
commissioned to address issues of funding.
As opposition education spokesman in 1990, Smith had campaigned for the removal of the Labour Government's tertiary tuition fee of $1250, promising to get rid of the fee
if elected. In office, he kept this promise on a technicality: he shifted the burden of charging fees for courses from the government to the institutions, who then had to charge even higher tuition fees due to decreased government funding. Smith's term as Education Minister also saw the introduction of means-testing for student allowances, with the effect that students of middle-class parents became ineligible for allowances until they reached 25 years of age.
These activities inevitably resulted in considerable antipathy toward Smith from tertiary students, and he became the subject of a considerable amount of protest activity. On one occasion in 1994 Smith had to escape from a mob through a window at the University of Canterbury. Another protestor produced an unflattering bust of Smith, sculpted out of horse manure.

It is no secret that a national government would implement policies that would be harmful to the environment ( changes to RMA) damaging to the vulnerable, (housing policy already announced) - users pays health (past record) privatised ACC, damaging to the economy increased government borrowing.

Voters should not fear a hidden agenda there is enough in the public domain to be worried about.