Oh dear. Another foolish Act.
One would have thought ACT leader David Seymour would have
learnt from Rodney Hide's unfortunate experiment to gain love and affection
from voters. David should be smart enough to know the best he could hope for
from voters is respect, not love and affection. To be brutal about it, most
people like politicians as much as they like those door-to-door sales people
who drive around in their vans selling over-priced stuff to people financed at
exorbitant rates of interest.
Rodney made a plonker of himself by going on Dancing with
the Stars.
He was advised against it but his ego was such that he could
not resist the spotlight - any spot light - even one involving dancing. Instead
of talking about ACT policy, people talked instead about Rodney dropping Krystal,
his unfortunate dance partner.
Apparently David has not learnt that lesson because he has
agreed to "star" on Dancing with the Stars which is to screen in
April. David says it's to support a charity (blah blah) but the motivation is
more likely to be that he, like Rodney, has got a good sized ego that needs to
be fed.
It seems to me that the last thing ACT needs is another
leader with a fixation for stardom. I think the 15 hours a week David's has set
aside to practice his dancing skills would be better used discussing the challenges ACT faces with the
many tens of thousands of voters and party faithful who at one time supported
the Party but no longer do so.
Attracting back former supporters would seem like an obvious strategy
for a party that attracted just 13,000 votes at the last election and only
remains in Parliament because it has been gifted a seat. David may find some of
ACT's former supporters gave up on the Party after Rodney had his emotional
epiphany and the pursuit of star dust above party policy.
Frank Newman is an author and commentator.
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