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"I think when even (former Labour finance minister) Roger Douglas says the ACT party has become the party of entrenched privilege, I think it's time for the ACT party to have a rethink."
RNZ seems to have missed that Roger Douglas was not only a Labour minister, but also a co-founder of ACT.
Yeah it was an unnecessarily obtuse insertion by the reporter.
This won't make me dislike ACT more but that's only because I'm already at max dislike.
"I'm not afraid, therefore no one else is either."
Seymour probably
Better headline:
ACT leader David Seymour brushes off claims party has a 'culture at all'
The reported complaints are not representative of the party as a whole, ACT leader says.
Isn’t that how bullying works? Done in a way that people don’t see it or can ignore it.
Yep
Yes, the important thing isn't whether everyone in the party acts like that, the important thing is what the party does when issues are raised to them. Brushing it off, and saying things like "Every time you have an election, people come and they find that maybe politics is not for them", indicate to me that they don't take the reports seriously.
