Tautoko to Glenn Colquhoun for his letter to Act leader David Seymour (“Go north for a while”, April 6) . While Seymour fixates on personal freedom, Colquhoun writes, “We are individuals but we also share a collective existence.”
Within hours of reading Colquhoun’s article, I received an email from Act headlined, “Coalition government’s quarterly plan: powered by Act.” Without a hint of irony, the co-governing party with 8.6% of the vote went on to boast: “Act’s 11 MPs make up just under one in six of the government’s 68 MPs, but the party’s policies make up half of the 36 actions.” The contradiction of the “one person, one vote” mantra is blatant.
Michael Smythe (Auckland)
Glenn Colquhoun writes very well in his essay to David Seymour and offers sage advice that we should be more together, but isn’t that what Hobson’s Pledge promotes, and gets roundly criticised for?
