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    Comedy on the stump

    Jun 11, 2023 4 minutes

    Watch out, red tape. Act Party leader David Seymour is coming to get you with his giant pair of scissors. Snippety snip. This is the stuff of nightmares: being chased through the labyrinthine corridors of Parliament by a maniacally grinning Seymour wielding an outsized cutting implement.

    He has announced that, should Act be a partner in a coalition government, he would create a new minister and ministry of regulation.

    Take that, you twisty, tricky red tape. Take that, you “badgering and bludgeoning” makers of needless rules and regulations. The Minister of Regulation would carry out relentless red-tape cutting sector by sector.

    “Every sector is RIPE for red-tape cutting,” his speech notes yelled in capitals – just in case

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