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. 

He Puapua Report "ruckus": Racism resurfaces (pn721). See also pn719.

Probably the most balanced, and certainly the most informative, article on the He Puapua Report is written by Ātea editor Leonie Hayden. Click to read before reading the rest of this posting.

An indication of the extent of the "ruckus" she describes can be seen in the number of articles on the topic listed in today's NZ Politics Daily (see below).