Social Credit ’quickstep'
NZPA London “Social Credit’s one-man Parliamentary band jooks set to play an aggressive and fluent quickstep,” readers of the “Guardian” were told on Monday. Its Wellington correspondent, Bruce Wallace, said that Mr Bruce Beetham, the surprise winner in the Rangitikei by-election on Saturday, had a sure political instinct.
“So far, Social Credit’s campaign has all been very shrewdly directed by Mr Beetham towards building up his personal following throughout the country,” Wallace wrote. “Now that he has succeeded, his advisors are confident that Social Credit will improve as the Labour Party declines.” Saying that traditional twoparty politics were disrupted, Wallace wrote: “Bruce Beetham could prove to be a thorn in the flesh of the Government that will not be easily extracted in election year.”
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Press, 22 February 1978, Page 3
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