ACT was always supposed to be the party of ideas. That was what I constantly heard when I was involved. That means leading thinking; expressing possibly contentious ideas; and influencing reform.
When one of them rightly waves that flag, others run a mile. Pathetic.
Banks is an idiot. He doesn't, never did and never will belong in a party of new ideas. He can't even get his head around this debate not being about drugs good/drugs bad. It's about whether the way authorities and lawmakers currently approach them is effective.
The current approach is riddled with inconsistencies and hypocrisies. If that is what society thinks will make the best impression on young minds then it is deluding itself.
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Well there are a lot of people wrestling with who to give their party vote to this year.
And there are issues which might entice them to give their party vote to ACT.
There wont be many in the group of potential ACT voters for whom the legalization of cannabis is a burning issue and perhaps the majority of them might actually be opposed.
Thus the good doctors outpourings are potentially a vote looser rather than a vote winner.
But it gets worse, the only possibly viable ACT Candidate who could potentially win a seat is opposed and is caught off guard by the Good Doctors posturings on this loosing issue and distances himself, sensibly I'd posit.
The public perception ACT a party where the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing.
INCOMPETANT
Is that last word intentional irony?
Andrei may be surprised how many young people this attracts to ACT. Granting criminals a monopoly on something many law abiding people would happily grow for themselves is just plain stupid.
Andrei may be surprised how many young people this attracts to ACT.
Sure
My friend the young and foolish are far more attracted to the Greens and the good doctor just don't have the charisma to pull them his way.
To them Metiria Turei is an old woman who talks the talk about cannabis but Don Brash is not old he is ancient something from the stone age.
You are kidding yourself if you think otherwise.
Incompetant? I rest my case.
Sadly I don't think I can vote Act this year. I have voted for them every election since the beginning, but John Banks, c'mon, what were they thinking.
Banks is and always was a thick drone with an overdeveloped authoritarian complex. What on earth is he doing in a party which is libertarian in philosophy?
What happened? Sooner it dies the better.
The real problem is of course that under MMP, if ACT dies, then labour WILL form the next government, its simple mathematics
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