ACT – Incest and Polygamy – the real issues confronting NZ

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ACT’s ‘Thriller at the Villa’ gets underway
ACT supporters have put the “phone back on the hook,” campaign director Richard Prebble says.

Oh they are back on the hook Prebs, and the rest of us are howling in laughter.

The ACT leader backs polygamy and incest??? So just the really important political issues confronting NZers then?

Do brothers and sisters get special discounts if they sign up as ACT members? Is there a Bert Potter Family discount?

To be fair to ACT, these issues are pressing. It’s very difficult feeding extra wives and getting medical care for genetically malformed children in this economy.

Prebs says that ACT can’t just be about white angry men, so he’s looking for white angry women to balance that out.

Great. Just what NZ needs, more angry white people furious that their privilege isn’t being enforced at gun point by the military.

Jamie Whytt is the gift that keeps giving. His appointment proves there is a God, and she has a wonderful sense of humour.

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I thought the corrupt bloated version of ACT was gold, but this new incarnation is far more entertaining.

23 COMMENTS

  1. Come on everyone knows that Gay Marriage is the biggest issue facing the entire planet right now.

    This is why we have 24×7 saturation coverage on the topic.

      • Whoa there, Frank. I saw him first!! Oh hang on, with polygamy we can both have a bit.

        Maybe polling has uncovered what the issues really are behind those high English hedges of Epsom, and this will be even more of a vote winner. After all, election fraud, blatant racism, and identity theft are all so passé. Incest is the new black. Hmmm, something not quite right there……..

        • Whoa there to both of you! Can we make this a fourway? With my pet sheep Flossy, it’ll be partaaaay time!

  2. You could have at least hyperlinked to the gory details/admissions so we could have a good laugh.

  3. A lot of Whyte’s opinions strike me as morally reprehensible (the incest polygamy ones aren’t among them), but his honesty is refreshing and he can at least offer up rational arguments for his opinions.

    Speaking of which, I’d be interested to know if you could offer up a rational argument for your headline “ACT – Incest and Polygamy – the real issues confronting NZ.” Can you outline the reasoning that’s led you to claim Whyte sees incest and polygamy as the real issues confronting NZ?

      • Any sarcasm/irony about this story should surely be directed at the news media, which have yet again carefully sifted a politician’s statements, ignoring the actual content while looking for some trivial phrase they can blow up into a scandal. Consider the circus they made of Cunliffe responding to Key’s dismissal of the Salvation Army’s report on poverty – did you see the actual context of his comment included in any of the many news reports about Cunliffe ‘accusing John Key of living in a mansion?’ This post is from the same model of journalism.

  4. Psycho Milt – do you know what “reprehensible” means, or do you really think its OK to sleep with your own family members? That’s taking “each to their own” (no pun intended) a bit far, but who am I to judge? Given Colin Craig’s attitude towards homosexuals though, I assume that ACT members sleeping with family members of the same sex would be frowned upon?

    • If I didn’t know the meaning of the word reprehensible, I wouldn’t use it. Your question is irrelevant – I don’t think it’s OK to sleep with your family members, but that isn’t at issue. The question put to Whyte was “should the state intervene if adult siblings want to marry each other?” He thinks it shouldn’t, ie that incest between consenting adults isn’t the state’s business, which is an entirely defensible position and doesn’t involve thinking it’s OK to sleep with your family members.

      Here’s a question for you: given that we have an increasing number of children in NZ who don’t know who their father is, should they face criminal charges if it turns out someone they have sex with is a half-sibling? If not, on what basis do you believe Whyte’s opinion on this issue to be morally reprehensible?

      Given Colin Craig’s attitude towards homosexuals though, I assume that ACT members sleeping with family members of the same sex would be frowned upon?

      ACT and the Conservative Party are natural enemies, so why they might care what Colin Craig thinks isn’t obvious.

      NB: still eagerly awaiting Martyn Bradbury’s rational argument for his claim that ACT considers incest and polygamy to be the real issues facing NZ…

  5. The “Thriller at the Villa” yielded more tough on crime malarkey, always a hit with the right-wing crowd, turns out the policy outlined had no real substance.

    But more people crammed in prisons has got to be good for Serco shareholders.

    This “Thriller at the Villa” sounds about as spectacular as an aging Parkinson ridden Muhammad Ali alone in the ring punching himself.

    • I have a great deal of respect for Muhammad Ali. I will assume that you had a typo and meant to say “as spectacular as Blubber Boy WhaleSpew trying to catch a blow up Judith Collins doll with a hole punctured in it.”

      • I certainly meant no disrespect for Muhammad Ali, but “Thriller at the Vila”? I would hardly say this conference was the political equivalent of the “Thrilla in Manila”.

        Hollow clichéd policy is hardly heavyweight champion material so is an academic party leader who is likely to tarnish oneself by being associated with a toxic political entity, but I guess ACT looks more sophistimacated.

        With Prebble back on the scene, really have to wonder what this ACT project is all about. Unsatisfied with a legacy of screwing the country over, is this all about pride? Out to save his “baby” from oblivion? An enduring cancer in the system.

    • Ok, getting away from the wacky stuff…

      I noted the audience at the ACT meeting;

      * Middle class

      * Pakeha

      * Aging

      In short, those who’ve done very well in their youth from a system that provided free healthcare; free education (including tertiary); a cradle-to-grave welfare system; state housing for those who needed it; and many other public services.

      Then they voted seven tax cuts for themselves and by hook-or-by-crook, they damn well want more. More tax cuts; less tax-payer funded public services; more user-pays; and a whole heap of vilification upon the heads of the poor for daring to be poor.

      National/ACT supporters cannot abide the poor. Because it tweaks what little remains of their consciences, and reminds them that they are the victims of a monetarist, free market, minimal-government system.

      And by god, they don’t appreciate feeling that prick to their consciences.

      Hence why they default to the now all-too-common parroted meme that the poor are poor because they are(a) lazy (b) spend their money on booze/drugs/SkyTV and (c) too busy ‘breeding’. It is intellectual laziness.

      Wait for Intrinsicvalue to post his derogatory opinions of the poor.

      That is the mental picture that so many of his fellow Nat/ACT zealots hold.

      Just so they don’t have to feel guilty.

  6. Can the people of Epsom be cajoled by National to vote for this shower of cranks and crooks again.

    Can the citizens of the this swanky suburb risk becoming the laughing stock of the country.

  7. The rousing Churchillian speech for a reborn political party. The hopes, dreams and aspirations of all New Zealanders confronted!

    That’s what was expected but, oops, this is about three strikes for burglary. Sorry, wrong channel.

    • Wonder where the money will come from to pay for all the new prisons as more crims are imprisoned and taxes are cut? Something smells a bit fishy on this one and I notice that the media aren’t asking the question WHERE WILL THE MONEY COME FROM???

  8. To me it shows that Whyte and his party should be as far away from the Treasury benches as possible – come on Epsom wake up

  9. I think we have to forget about this whole Deliverance stuff, as we all, including Whyte, don’t want it to fly and know it won’t fly. Best concentrate on the stuff that they could get to fly, that will revisit the Rogernomics and Ruthanasia years and put them on steroids.

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