ACT's Paul Henry is celebrating getting a throwaway line made into a real party policy. "Bugger me," he told WWNews. "If it's as easy as that, we'll soon be legislating to allow mockery of foreigners with silly names and ladies with facial hair. And would that be such a bad thing?"
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