ACT party and Hide thoroughly discredited

The Act Party and its leader Rodney Hide are now thoroughly discredited and John Key should remove Act from ministerial positions within his administration, says Labour Leader Phil Goff.

“This latest incident discredits the Act party, and is likely to finish it as a political force,” Phil Goff said.

“One thing the public can’t stand is absolute hypocrisy. The public will be asking Rodney Hide why it was okay for him to have David Garrett as a political candidate only as long as the public didn’t know what he had done.

“It was Mr Hide who told David Garrett to run as a candidate even when he knew about the identity theft.

“With Act it is a case of do as I say, and not do as I do,” Phil Goff said.

“Act and Mr Garrett supported name suppression and keeping his serious offending secret at the same time as they opposed clean slates for minor convictions.

“John Key promised voters higher standards from his administration, but he hasn’t delivered. He has been happy to cuddle up to a party that has shown no standards.

“He has also shown no leadership in failing to put up a serious challenge to Mr Hide in the Epsom electorate,” Phil Goff said. “The people in Epsom deserve better than that.

“Mr Garrett should not be in Parliament. He has no mandate and no credibility. Nor has Mr Hide who saw nothing wrong with having Mr Garrett in Parliament as long as he wasn’t found out.

“Mr Hide now presides over a party that is deeply divided into two equal factions.

“And Mr Key, who was prepared to condemn Winston Peters, is happy to be propped up by an Act party that has totally lost public confidence.”

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