GORDON LIGHTFOOT | Politics
FRIGHT NIGHT
David Seymour, leader of the ACT party, got the fright of his life on Halloween night when a menacing group of children turned up at his Auckland doorstep dressed as the newly proposed capital gains tax.
“I thought hey, Halloween’s a bit of fun,” Seymour told reporters, visibly shaken. “I’ll put some decorations out front and dish out lollies to any kids who might knock on the door. Didn’t really think anything of it.”
He didn’t know what was coming.
“I opened the door for the usual princesses and Marvel characters. All pretty normal stuff. But then three kids stood there dressed as Labour’s proposed tax. No capes. No brooms. Just masks made out of copies of Labour’s policy.”
Seymour says he became aware something was off when the youngest said nothing, the middle one didn’t move, and the eldest asked, very calmly: “Are you going to pay us?”
“I shouted ‘Who are you!? What do you want??’ They just stood there, silent, faces hidden like the cowards they are,” he recalled, still rattled.
Seymour insists the stunt must’ve been coordinated. “They looked like 9- or 10-year-olds. So some parent thought it would be funny to harass an elected member of parliament.”
Seymour has described Labour’s recently revealed plan for a capital gains tax on property profits, as divisive “tall-poppy politics”.
Party sources say Seymour has since ordered additional home security in case this kind of spooky political activism continues.
More to come.
