The New Zealand Social Credit Party is a New Zealand political organisation that was formerly registered as a political party. For several decades it was the country's most successful third party outs
Social Credit marching song from the 1950s
Vernon Cracknell, leader 1963–1970 and MP for Hobson 1966–1969
Bruce Beetham, leader 1972–1986 and MP for Rangitikei 1978–1984
1980s party logo
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Social credit is a distributive philosophy of political economy developed in the 1920s and 1930s by the British engineer and economist C. H. Douglas. Douglas attributed economic downturns to discrepan
Social Credit Party (New Zealand)
…president Gloria Bruni said at the time that deregistration did not mean the organisation would cease to exist. The party was based on the ideas of social credit, an economic theory developed by C. H. Douglas. Social credit movements also existed in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. The New Zealand…
C. H. Douglas, founder of the "social credit" economic theory, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.