ACT Is Here To Stay

2014 starts now. 

I am focused taking a repositioned ACT Party into the next election.

We must sell our values to a greater number of New Zealanders than we did last year.

In Epsom, I will be working every day to give the people of Epsom the representation they deserve.

In Parliament, I will be working every day to deliver quality results from our confidence and supply agreement with the National party.

As the ACT Party Leader, I will be working hard every day to rejuvenate our party. 

The ACT Party is returning to its heritage.  People forget that ACT stands for something.  We are the Association of Consumers and Taxpayers.

With GST, every adult New Zealander is a taxpayer.  ACT is the only party that consistently says we need lower taxes.

Every New Zealander is also a consumer.  ACT is the only party standing up for families facing higher costs due to excessive red tape and regulation. 

New Zealand is at the crossroads.  It must have a viable centre right coalition to face our economic challenges.

For the generation of my children who look at the housing market and see no hope of the Kiwi dream, ACT will be there. 

For the families who see prices spiralling out of control and wages failing to keep up, ACT will be there. 

For the small business people who wish to create wealth and employ their fellow New Zealanders, ACT will be there. 

For the parents who want to see their children grow up here in New Zealand, and keep their families together, ACT will be there. 

The ACT Party has always been a coalition that ranges from social conservatives to libertarians.  We are united by our shared belief in lower taxes and more careful government spending. 

My duty to centre right voters is to give speed to National’s direction.  I’m going to be focussing extra hard on the economic issues about which our coalition agrees.

ACT has shown it can deliver in government. 

Our confidence and Supply Agreement means that we will be revolutionising education for the lowest achieving students and will give parents the choice in education that they deserve. 

We will be introducing bold new legislation to restrain the red tape that strangling small business.

We will be amending the Public Finance Act to control the taxes that burden enterprise and households.

I’m under no illusion that this will mean a lot of heavy lifting, but I’m going to be working hard every day for the people of Epsom, for this Government, for the ACT party and for this great country.