pn760. What David Seymour and the ACT Party are really about

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Much of the  ACT party's recent increase in popular polls seems due to the unflappable leadership of David Seymour, with more than a little help from National Judith Collins' raised eyebrows and muttering as she bores even more voters with her wild tales about the Labour's supposed "separatism" policies to share legislature power with Māori.

Some of those polled seem to have forsaken  National, some shifting left to Labour; others right to ACT.  

I suspect most of the former will move back to National, but many who moved to ACT will probably stay there.  A weak National Party (Collins's attempts to retain National Party leadership comes after over 12-months of  internal party blunders) has made ACT stronger. 

As for ACT, besides wanting to abolish the Human Rights Commission and Māori seats, they also want to cut and freeze the Minimum wage, get interest back on all student loans, abolish the  Kiwsaver subsidy, cancel the winter energy payment to old people, dump all climate crisis legislation, abolish best start payments for families with new borns, cut welfare payments, give no tax credits for research and development, introduce cuts to working for families, and cut $7b a year from public services spending.  

What a happy New Zealand we will be as the rich become even richer and the poor even poorer. Now, Judith, that's separatism!

My thanks to Martyn Bradbury and The Daily Blog for the extensive use of their articles.   ACW

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