26-08-2023, 07:26 PM
The idiocy of claiming that if Nelson Mandela was alive today, he'd support the ACT party has been strongly refuted by a grandson of Mandela. HOW the devil can a politician - even an ACT politician - be so incredibly stupid as to make such a claim??! Beyond bizarre! 
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/496...andson-say
"Nelson Mandela would not have campaigned for the ACT Party if he were still alive, the anti-apartheid activist's grandson says.
During a speech at the Moutere Hills Community Centre in rural Tasman on Thursday, ACT Party leader David Seymour told a crowd of 250 people that New Zealand had become a "lawless" country.
It was ACT's policy to put more people in prison, which he said was "some of the best money you can spend".
Seymour also touched on co-governance.
"Every country that has ever tried to do what this government has tried to do has either ended in disaster or successfully campaigned to reintroduce liberal democracy.
"I daresay if Nelson Mandela was alive today he would be campaigning for ACT."
Seymour was mocked on Twitter for his comment, which came to the attention of Mandela's grandson, Kweku Mandela.
"My grandfather definitely loved the people of New Zealand and I can say categorically he would not campaign for this today or any other day in the past," he tweeted on Saturday.
Asked for his response, Seymour said: "Far be it from me to question the great man's grandson, but Nelson Mandela did say 'all people are born equal, with each entitled in equal measure to life [and] liberty'.
"That is a core ACT value and why we are so opposed to co-governance."
At the time Mandela made his famous remark, he said people were also entitled in equal measure to "prosperity, human rights and good governance".
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/496...andson-say
"Nelson Mandela would not have campaigned for the ACT Party if he were still alive, the anti-apartheid activist's grandson says.
During a speech at the Moutere Hills Community Centre in rural Tasman on Thursday, ACT Party leader David Seymour told a crowd of 250 people that New Zealand had become a "lawless" country.
It was ACT's policy to put more people in prison, which he said was "some of the best money you can spend".
Seymour also touched on co-governance.
"Every country that has ever tried to do what this government has tried to do has either ended in disaster or successfully campaigned to reintroduce liberal democracy.
"I daresay if Nelson Mandela was alive today he would be campaigning for ACT."
Seymour was mocked on Twitter for his comment, which came to the attention of Mandela's grandson, Kweku Mandela.
"My grandfather definitely loved the people of New Zealand and I can say categorically he would not campaign for this today or any other day in the past," he tweeted on Saturday.
Asked for his response, Seymour said: "Far be it from me to question the great man's grandson, but Nelson Mandela did say 'all people are born equal, with each entitled in equal measure to life [and] liberty'.
"That is a core ACT value and why we are so opposed to co-governance."
At the time Mandela made his famous remark, he said people were also entitled in equal measure to "prosperity, human rights and good governance".
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)
