Social credit

Just a little bit of history, Marcus, on MMP.

1981, Social Credit got over 20% of the vote, and they only got two candidates in seats.

And from there, they started petitions for a change.

And I think that's just a little

Yeah, it certainly is.

Couldn't agree more.

Are you a social credit person?

No, I was associated with a lot of people because I was in the Ararua seat and it had a very strong social credit following.

I mean, we never used to know a single thing about it.

Social Credit and the Greens were just one of those ones that would never win a seat.

Social Credit, that's an old

name.

Social Credit, what

was it? I remember when I was a little kid, it was Gary Knapp and Bruce Beetham.

They both won a seat, didn't they? Was it

Uh, and, and I would argue what you're saying s- starting way before KLF came on the scene as leader.

But, um, there are echoes of Vander Zalm kind of taking over the Socreds and changing the, the character of the offering, um, and putting emphasis on more social issues than economic issues for that time.

But I agree with you that even Vander Zalm was pretty mainstream when you think about it in terms of how that government operated.

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