"What Exactly is the Truth?"

Once one discovers these sorts of stories about the Socred (BC) prophets and their political abilities, then any self-respecting journalist would begin to dig into the Socred (BC) record and discover the reality behind the myth perpetrated on New Zealand by the Social Credit spokesmen: "What exactly is the truth about British Columbia?"

Peter Wilkinson (Nat., Kaipara) did set out to discover the truth. His stories on the Socred experience (NZ Herald, February 1981) revealed a little of the truth but, again, no one dug any further, the general media response being: "It's only a National Party effort to discredit Social Credit and is not to be swallowed too much."

But Peter Wilkinson was far nearer the turth than our local media have been about Socred and its political and economic failures. Peter Wilkinson could not be too harsh on Socred (BC) because he discovered a Canadian version of the New Zealand National Party is in power in British Columbia - a government that is so right wing that Derek Quigley would appear to be a socialist!