What might the ACT party do? They're holding their election-year conference this weekend and struggling to keep their head above electoral water -- this conference, they hope, will throw them the lifeline they need. Crikey, they've even re-publicised old Dodger Rugless as the country's would-be saviour, and invited along the insane Penny Bright to talk to them about her career disrupting other people's business -- presumably in the hope she'll get arrested and start some momentum-gathering headlines, if anyone can stop her talking first.

Anyway, with National assiduously trying to outflank Labour on the left that should leave ACT plenty of territory to carve out on the other flank if it weren't so intent on not frightening the horses (there was a time when they promised to abolish tax, now they just offer to "cap" tax).

Liberty Scott puts forward ten red-hot policies ACToids could put forward if they were really interested in policies instead of playing around -- serious about being seen as a genuine alternative to National's Labour-Lite -- which reminds me to remind you of the five straightforward policy options I put about before the last election that it could adopt if it wanted to be taken seriously as a genuine freedom party...