A prisoner voting ban shows again how few checks there are on Parliamentary power

[heisenberg]

"they are in prison for a reason, of course they will be labour voters, scum"

But they aren't getting to vote because the National Party is running the show.

heisenberg do try to comprehend what is being communicated before spouting nonsense by misunderstanding the point of the article and my comment completely, the prisoners won't be voting because the National Government will not allow it.

Even if you are a criminal you are still an NZ citizen, you don't lose you rights, is the whole point.

So you didn't read the rest of the article about NZ only paying lip service to the International Declaration of Human Rights

It seems that NZ is basically run by vested interests and the Government does anything but that because it is composed of vested interests ie the rich.

As we know money is the main goal and anything else like fairly sharing the riches of the country a distant follower.  The Government just leaves it up to the market place to decide how things go sort of like the mythical trickle down theory balancing things out for the poorer part of the community.

read the little red book did you