Anderton wants to stop current MPs beingfunded for standing in by-elections - but he claims $190.33 per constituent seen

Jim Anderton wants current MPs to be prevented from wasting taxpayers money in contesting by-elections and getting another member from their party in Parliament on the list should they win. He has drafted a private members bill to that effect.

Anyone want to draft a private members bill which will prevent people from joining two political parties at the same time so purely to prevent a certain party leader losing $13,000 for being a leader of a party[ and a spokesperson for another party] that doesn't actually do anything but get a further $164,000 of taxpayers money for party "expenses", when many of the active members are supporters of a different party?

Anderton claims that the $164,000 is for the “1500 constituents who pass through” his office each year. That's $109.33 per constituent, most of whom he wouldn't even see.

Perhaps another bill can be drafted that ensures that registered political parties who want to stand candidates for Parliament must also stand list candidates - and they cannot be "spokespersons" for other political parties.

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Number one Progressive Party policy: Supporting Jim Anderton financially until he retires

Jim Anderton, who has turned 70, has told his Progressive Party supporters that they can join Labour and retain their Progressive membership. That is discriminatory against Green and National Party supporters who are members of the Progressives. So Progressives have two policies: supporting Jim Anderton until he retires and setting up a progression of membership to Labour for when he does.

Perhaps this progressive nature of the progression of party membership to Labour is why the party is called the Progressives.

Perhaps Anderton is doing this because should the Progressive membership go below 500, Anderton will not be a leader of a registered political party and his funding as a Parliamentary party leader could lapse as well. Surely it wouldn’t have anything to do with certain members in the Progressive Party who are seeking positions within Labour and have to be Labour members to do so.

The Progressive Party is sitting at 0% in the polls at the moment and is in reality a front so Anderton can get more funding as a party leader. Anderton is collecting National Super as well.

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