What do Premier Helen Zille and President Jacob Zuma have in common? A disdain for “smaller parties”‚ according to one of the smaller parties - the Congress of the People (Cope). Spokesperson Dennis Bloem was reacting to former Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Zille's “warning to the community of Eersterust not to ‘vote for a small party’ ”‚ which he described as “both hypocritical and anti-democratic”.This “ill-advised position will have consequences for the DA”‚ Bloem warned‚ as “every big party will be searching for coalition partners” after the local government elections.“She should be utterly ashamed of her bully boy stance‚” he said. “Zuma made it clear that the big parties have greater democratic rights than small parties and Zille is much of the same mind.“In the Western Cape‚ her party has been deeply beholden to Cope in a number of municipalities where the DA came short and needed bolstering.“She therefore lies through her teeth when she says that ‘tiny parties cannot do anything because they cannot get into government’.”As the DA “does not know the meaning of mutuality…it will meet its comeuppance soon”‚ Bloem predicted. – TMG Digital ..