I resigned my membership to ACT. Having been a member, having worked as a volunteer to support MPs over the last 2017 – 2021 period and donating a fair bit of money to them, I can no longer countenance their slide to authoritarianism. pic.twitter.com/T6o9MVXive
— The New Zealand Rocketeer (@TheNzRocketeer) October 9, 2021
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