Progressives going going gone

NZPA reported:

The Progressive Party is effectively standing aside at the next election and its members have been told they are free to join if they want to.

Back on May 31 I blogged that the Progressives appear to be defunct, and it looks like we were right.

The “convenient fiction” that they are still a party gets Anderton an extra $100,000 a year in taxpayer resources for his office. His total parliamentary funding is $250,580 + GST.

Anderton personally gets paid an extra $13,500 salary for his fictional role as a party .

A spokesman told NZPA the Progressive Party would not run a candidate list at the 2011 election and would not campaign for the party vote.

I expect Anderton will announce his retirement in due course.

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