The skills that made Key a successful currency trader — the ability to react to the present — made him a formidable campaigner.
Our strengths are often our weaknesses.
If you are thinking only about next Saturday, John Key is right. Electing Paul Goldsmith in Epsom might give National another MP and save Paul from returning to writing vanity biographies for the wealthy.
But consider what Epsom has achieved.
Without Epsom returning ACT MPs, the party would not have survived the swings of politics.
National should be grateful ACT exists.
In other democracies, conservative parties increasingly depend on illiberal, anti-immigration parties of the populist right.
Epsom has given National something much better: a reliable coalition partner committed to individual freedom, personal responsibility and the rule of law.
ACT is rare: a true liberal party.
Key is thinking about next Saturday.
Epsom voters should be thinking about the elections that follow.
The Honourable Richard Prebble CBE is a former member of the New Zealand Parliament. Initially a member of the Labour Party, he joined the newly formed ACT New Zealand party under Roger Douglas in 1996, becoming its leader from 1996 to 2004. This article was sourced HERE
But consider what Epsom has achieved.
Without Epsom returning ACT MPs, the party would not have survived the swings of politics.
National should be grateful ACT exists.
In other democracies, conservative parties increasingly depend on illiberal, anti-immigration parties of the populist right.
Epsom has given National something much better: a reliable coalition partner committed to individual freedom, personal responsibility and the rule of law.
ACT is rare: a true liberal party.
Key is thinking about next Saturday.
Epsom voters should be thinking about the elections that follow.
The Honourable Richard Prebble CBE is a former member of the New Zealand Parliament. Initially a member of the Labour Party, he joined the newly formed ACT New Zealand party under Roger Douglas in 1996, becoming its leader from 1996 to 2004. This article was sourced HERE
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