Gordon Campbell: On ACT’s Takeover Of The Government Agenda

The ACT Party won only 8.6% of the vote last year, so how come it seems to be driving about 75% of the government’s agenda? It helps ACT’s cause that Christopher Luxon is so incompetent, and such a pushover. Earlier this week, Luxon just couldn’t keep in his head the sales pitch he’d been given for a crackdown that was comprised almost entirely of ACT social welfare policies.