Sunday, 13 November 2016

SEYMOUR WANTS AUTOMATONS IN PARLIAMENT (letter published in Dom Post, November 16)


David Seymour thinks it’s “enormously disappointing” that Cabinet ministers’ political stance is affected by their personal judgment on moral issues such as euthanasia. He thinks they should not exercise “a personal vote” but vote for what the polls say the majority wants.
The polls having been Trumped however, he must know that polls can get it wrong but even so, it sounds like Seymour wants automatons in Parliament. Men and women who operate not out of beliefs, but who believe in nothing. Nihilists who will vote for anything in order to stay in office, members of Parliament who are relentlessly politically correct.
But in fact what New Zealand desperately needs is political representatives with vision, values and courage.

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