I have to make a confession.

Years ago, when Jenny Shipley was leading the National party, and was also our prime minister, I voted Labour.

I remember telling people that I thought Helen Clark was a strong leader and that this was just what New Zealand needed right now, and that whether you loved her or hated her at least you “knew where you stood with Helen Clark”.

I was also very young and naive and as a result had embraced the serious error of thinking that socialism is a morally acceptable political system.

Isn’t it funny how things can change with a few years and a bit of learning!

As far as I am concerned, we now have the worst prime minister and government that we have ever had in New Zealand (and yes; I am including the bad old days of the Muldoon era in that statement!)

Just think about it for a second.

Under Helen Clark’s leadership we have witnessed the introduction of the most immoral and anti-family legislation ever thought up.

Thanks to the red army, we have legalised homosexual marriage (under the lame guise of civil unions), we have decriminalised prostitution – which is effectively legal prostitution.

A child can now get an abortion without their parent’s consent, yet that same child couldn’t get a Panadol at school without written parental permission.

The Labour party has investigated introducing hate speech laws, and members of her party have made no secret of the fact that they would like to see legalised euthanasia.

On the economic front, most economic experts (one of which I certainly don’t profess to be) are suggesting that Labour has simply spent its time in power reshuffling the chairs on the deck of the financial Titanic.

And who could forget the election spending, or should that be bribery, targeted at increasing the Labour voter pool by offering financial incentives to vote red.

Then there are the dishonesty charges that have constantly dogged Helen Clark and the Labour Party.

There was the painting that Helen Clark signed and then had Steve Maharey destroy rather speedily once it came to light that she hadn’t actually painted it as initially implied.

There was the motorcade incident, where Helen Clark denied giving the order to speed, and vehemently denied being aware that she was in the back of an average sized car travelling at speeds of over 140kph – yeah right!

And of course there was the granddaddy of all dishonest behaviours – the pledge card spending which Labour was warned about, chose to do nothing about and then, after they got busted for it, proffered the idea that they should be able to introduce retrospective legislation to change the law so that they can keep the money they stole from the taxpayers.

Come on Helen – what kind of banana republic totalitarian regime are you running in this country?

But it’s not just Helen who has a problem with honesty – remember the dodgy dealings of Annette King, Ruth Dyson and David Benson Pope?

Then something quite surreal happened earlier this week – Helen Clark told the country that she was sick of all the parliamentary mud-slinging and personal attacks and that it had to stop.

But it seems that she doesn’t include herself in that little speech, because just moments later she was ranting and raving in no uncertain terms about how Don Brash was “cancerous”.

It seems this was one of those do as I say, not as I do situations (which is very typical of socialist dictators).

Come on Helen, enough is enough.

I’m sick of hearing you respond to legitimate questions about serious concerns relating to you and your party’s dodgy dealings by talking about the Exclusive Brethren, and “secret big-business funding” of National.

Let it go already!

The Exclusive Brethren funded their own anti-Green leaflet drop, which they are entitled to do by law in a free country like New Zealand, and it happened at the last election for Pete’s sake!

Do I think the Brethren are hypocrites for getting involved with electioneering and not voting themselves? Hell yes, but that doesn’t change the fact that they didn’t break the law, they didn’t do anything unethical and they paid for the campaign with their own money.

And as for this claptrap about trying to change the law to force people who donate money anonymously to political parties to reveal their identities; oh please girlfriend!

Labour has been funded by union money since Adam was a boy – so what?!

In a free country that’s how things work; you support the party that suits your beliefs about life and governance.

And if a business owner wants to anonymously donate money to a party that will support legislation that he believes is good for him and the country, without politicising his business or placing his staff in the awkward position of feeling that they have to hold the same political affiliations as the boss, then so be it!

After all; isn’t that the whole point of a democracy?!

No matter what your political affiliations are, you’d have to be blinded by ideology, or not the full packet of biscuits, to claim that Helen Clark is a great leader.

She has personally engaged in dishonesty and dubious dealings, and her government has specialised in instituting immoral legislation by employing dodgy methods to achieve an outcome favourable to their agenda.

Ultimately, she must take responsibility for this because she is the one charged with steering the ship – and that means that she either supports the law changes her government has enacted and proposed, or she doesn’t care enough to stop them happening.

Either way she is failing New Zealand and it appears that the chickens are finally beginning to come home to roost.

Helen Clark with one of her chief advisors