Democratic choices
Whilst upholding the sentiments Ken Orr expressed (Letters, September 3), his comments about David Seymour brought up another worrying factor.
As Ken stated, Mr Seymour gained 15,966 votes in the Epsom Electorate and his ACT Party won a paltry 1023 party votes. How is it, that in our
democracy, one MP (holding a seat by default from National) is allowed to have so much influence? Mr Seymour is, for whatever misguided reason, attempting to give to mere humans, the power to play God in deciding on life or death for vulnerable people.
The other major change which ACT was allowed to instigate was the introduction of Charter Schools, many of which continue to rely on thousands of extra funding dollars to exist, into the New Zealand Education system. That was the price paid by National to gain the support they required from ACT at the time.
Is it morally correct that changes such as these are able to be brought about by such a minority party?
