Colin James makes this prediction (echoing earlier statements elsewhere not least by National's leader):
David Seymour will have trouble managing his disparate bunch of new MPs.
I think I know what 'disparate' means. Different from each other. But let's check a google definition to be safe:
essentially different in kind; not able to be compared.
Well I am very pleased about that. A party that represents individualism - individual rights must not be subjugated to collective rights - should feature free thinkers with varying interests.
You wouldn't want ACT to behave like a herd of sheep, very similarly to one another.
Seymour may have trouble managing them but does he want to? He needs them to be able to manage themselves.
They are all mature people. Worldly even.
There are bound to be political missteps in an environment where the media is salivating for a slip-up and not past precipitating one.
But parliament was overdue for some new blood that's not running through the veins of conformists.
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They're so green they don't even know what they're there for. You get a better training programme in a motorbike gang!
".There are bound to be political missteps in an environment where the media is salivating for a slip-up.."
Bingo.
Funny how one of the longest serving wannabe politicians had to pull into the pits shortly before realising his life-long dream. Stephen Berry would have known what he was in government to do rather than assigned a handler.
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/politics/2020/07/act-candidate-stephen-berry-resigns-due-to-exhaustion-from-campaign-preparation.html
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