Douglas on Act-Labour

ACT founder Sir Roger Douglas has lashed out at ACT’s new relationship with Labour.

Sir Roger said Act could talk to anybody it liked.

“But this is a Government of control freaks and there’s not much point in talking to control freaks. I can’t see that there’s any common ground.”

To be fair Sir Roger has never been a fan of Hide’s leadership.

The problem ACT has is perception. I don’t think the agreement with Labour was anything but common sense – it was just a we’ll agree to talk to each other rather than assume we won’t agree on anything.

But the timing of it is strange. Labour are down in the polls and having trouble passing laws, and you pick that time to say hey we may be able to help you.

As Whale Oil points out, ACT have spent months attacking National as “Labour lite” and then they appear to jump to the centre also. Or as Whale Oil puts it:

I seem to remember all the ACToids screaming bloody murder when National created some room for ACT on the right even describing them as Labour-Lite and Smurf’s, but then absolute silence about Rodney’s master strategy of rebranding ACT, Leapfrogging over National to jump in between them and Labour.

Brilliant, just brilliant. National creates room on the right for them and the use the room for a run up to play leap frog in the rush to the left.