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Announcing a New Voice for The Left
Announcing a New Voice for The Left
Josh
Forman is pleased to announce the creation of a new force on
the Left of politics in New Zealand.
“My goal is to create an online environment that provides sane and reasonable views from the left of the spectrum.” Mr Forman said this morning when asked about his motivation to create the site.
“For far too long, the dominant online voices on our side of politics have been the shrill and hysterical ranting on offer at The Daily Blog and The Standard.
Slightly Left of Centre will provide calm and reasoned views that more closely reflect the views of compassionate New Zealanders in the centre. These are the people that have flocked to National under John Key, and those who have abandoned Labour in droves.”
Responding to questions about working with WhaleOil blogger Cameron Slater to build a voice for the centre left, Mr Forman was blunt. “He is extremely successful at what he does and we need a comparable success story of our own for the sake of decent democratic debate. The time for name calling and identity politics has passed.
Mr Forman says slightlyleftofcentre.co.nz has already had thousands of views and boasts more than 30 blog entries already and that the feedback he has received from moderates throughout New Zealand has been extremely humbling.
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