David Seymour has finally found a cause to grab the headlines and remind people that ACT really does have a purpose.

According to an item on RNZ, Seymour has learned that banning plastic bags may kill up to 20 New Zealanders a year due to food poisoning! He bases this on a rough calculation of chicken-eating San Franciscans who reputedly did themselves in from contaminated reusable bags. 

In the brave spirit of such ACT traditions as condoning incest and possibly the Conservative one of believing in chemtrails, Seymour suggests that single use plastic bags are not a pollution problem in this country at all. Rather, it is the fault of all those careless Africans and Asians and banning bags here simply cannot be justified due to the health consequences.

He does not say what the health consequences are of people putting those bags over their heads. Perhaps he would like to investigate that risk as well, just to see if it justifies the level of inconvenience and potential public health danger that might arise from allowing the continued presence of such bags on the streets and in the trees and in the oceans and practically everywhere else the wind blows.