Labour Party policy
Sir,—l attended one of Brian Keeley's more than 100 meetings, as the Papanui National Party electorate chairman, R. Whitehouse, reported yesterday. First, I would assert that’in that “100" only 10 per cent were under 60, and second, that those present gave little indication of Brian Keeley’s integrity. The 10 per cent under 60 came with me to see how Brian Keeley, starring with Ben Couch, could base a political meeting on “law and order," it being such a dead issue. Ben Couch of course was not taken seriously, but Brian Keeley's stand on “justice,” “law and order" and his only apparent qualification “being a concerned family man” were also rather ridiculous to behold
— his absolutist approach to complex issues appalled me. For instance, in early rhetoric he stood for “individuals’ rights,” yet when questioned as to the “individual rights” of such groups as homosexuals to any over-needed law reform, he denied them completely their “individual rights."— Yours, etc.,
PHILIP PALFREY. October 27, 1981.
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