Monday, December 09, 2013

An unrepresented constituency?

A NZ Herald editorial begins,

There will always be a constituency for the Act Party's founding principles of individual freedom, personal responsibility, small government and lower taxes.
It does my heart good to see those principles re-stated. Unfortunately the writer goes on to enumerate the many problems that have faced the party over the years and concludes a come-back is unlikely.

So the constiuency that "will always be", which I believe is bigger than ACT's best result would indicate, will essentially go unrepresented in parliament?

I hope not.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

And yet ACT is/was always labelled 'Right wing". I can't see anything left or right with those principles.

Jeremy

Anonymous said...

There aren't any Right Wing parties in NZ.

ACT is far to the left of Obama, Clinton, even Al Gore.