John Banks: Leader

The hordes will, of course, now flock to join ACT. Mr Banks will dispense with this pointy-head theory stuff and all that concern about liberty and the individual. He will replace it with a red-neck, chauvinist social conservatism, leavened with his own unique brand of battiness. The neo-liberal Right must be watching the end of ACT and the Business Roundtable in horror, as their two vehicles of beauty and truth enter terminal decline. How they must long for Mr Hide and his knock-about Mussolini impersonations.