Socialism is a big topic, and in fact Labour is often only a bit left of centre. I quite like the idea of getting ahead some day, but I'd like to see everyone getting ahead at the same time. We shouldn't have to step on other people's toes to get there.
MMP lets everyone vote for a candidate and a party, that can be useful.
Janner, are you saying that every new job that occurred during Labour's terms was only a new government worker? The public sector is actually quite small as a portion of the workforce. There are a few more in public health and education etc, but that's not a bad thing, right? The trend was much bigger than that, and new productive jobs helped out the service sector, it all built up into the lowest unemployment rate for many years, a high tax take, old govt loans being paid off, and if borrowing did increase it was private borrowing.
Now if National was really keen on seeing that everyone paid the same percentage of tax, they'd introduce a capital gains tax, they'd be horrified by access to tax havens and they'd do something about it, they'd discourage big businesses from accepting govt grants and then putting themselves up for sale within a short time. It must be a lot of fun working the system when you get up to that level.