All of the MPs in Parliament refused to even talk to the Wellington anti mandate protesters, even thou 30% of the population supported them..
I mention that in order to illustrate that politic’s are not a solution to the problems in New Zealand. (There has to be a change in the culture).
The most freedom thinking of those parties in parliament is the ACT party (I supported them at the 2020 elections)
ACT apparently stood for low flat tax, private schools, Freedom of speech, and personal responsibility, at least that’s what their advertising said in 2020.
In 2021, about a year later, I was with a ‘Freedom and Rights Coalition’ event, protesting for freedom…
The following is my experiences with the ACT party, but it could easily apply to any main stream political party.
The leader of the ACT party, David Seymour is first and foremost a salesman, he’s going to tell you what he thinks you want to hear.
He might actually privately believe in freedom and I’ve heard some very good stuff from ACT party members in the past, but pragmatism and staying in Parliament overrides any idealism.
In 2020, He ran a very successful election campaign and went from just one MP to 10 MP’s.
ACT theory on politics is Canadian based -David Seymour lived there at one point and it seems their candidates go thru a ‘school of politics’ training program within the ACT party.
Politics according to ACT is largely a game. It’s likened to three people deciding how to spend $2. Any of the two can form a majority and screw over the third. You can’t predict which two will do this.
The key to winning for them, is to get a bigger % of voters for a better chance of been in government, therefore ACT targets disaffected groups to get those %’s up.
The gun lobby crowd was one of these disaffected groups after the Christchurch massacre. (ACT did nothing for them, once they got their vote, and probably never intended to.)
When campaigning for the election, they concentrate their efforts on persuadable people only. There is no point talking to a hard-line opposing party member -you will just make them angry and then they work against you.
ACT are mostly after the Party vote.
Only David Seymour goes for the candidate vote. David has always won the Epsom seat because ACT’s core philosophies are a natural fit for the people in the area. Other parties have thrown huge resources into removing David to no avail in the past.
Any other ACT candidate who goes for the candidate vote risks splitting the vote and letting the Labour candidate win. It also pisses off the National party, who is their only natural coalition partner.
In theory, people vote for policies, but actually they don’t. They vote for who gives them a good vibe.
Feelings not policies, drive voters.
Which basically means they don’t nessessarilly have an opinion based of facts on where the countries going or anything…
To summarise the situation…
Please bear in mind that politics will not solve the problems NZ has now, we need to change it’s culture.
Also, don’t expect a magical charismatic person to turn up and fix everything -that only happens in the movies.
Freedom Options are
New Conservative Party
also on Facebook (27,000 followers)
-Basic Christian values, they are a christian community that happens to have a political arm.
– Their policies are basically a ‘feel good’ word salad, so it’s hard to work out their policies
-Leighton Baker was a former leader who was arrested at the Wellington protest (I see this as a complement)
Vision Party
-Also on Facebook (7500 followers)
-Hannah Tamaki’s party
-Christian values
Democracy NZ
also on Facebook (6,000 followers)
Their leader is Matt King who left the National party over the mandates.
He needs to win his seat or get 5% of the party vote.
Their Climate Policy is compromised in order to get the cities on-board (Matt admitted this at a recent meeting)
It’s not likely he will join any Umbrella party.
New Nation party
– on Facebook (22,000 followers)
-I haven’t heard much about them until I researched them on Facebook.
-They have straightup no nonsense policies that don’t beat around the bush.
-They recently left the ‘Umbrella’ party (explained below) for some reason.
NZ Outdoors and Freedom party https://outdoorsparty.co.nz/
-Very active on Facebook (28,000 followers)
-Sue Grey , the well known lawyer was a co-leader.
Yes-Aotearoa party
-On Facebook (91 followers)
Appears to be some sort of ‘feel good’ party going by their policies, likely to believe in Co-Governance.
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The candidate vote will be a waste of time in most electorates, because any well known incumbent is likely to win.
The party vote will be very important, as we need at least 5% to get any representation.
Umbrella parties
Several of the smaller parties are going to ‘pool’ their party vote into one group which gives them a much greater chance of getting the all important 5% of the PARTY vote.
FreedomsNZ umbrella party
https://www.freedomsnz.org.nz/
The following parties are part of the freedoms NZ Umbrella party.
- Vision Party
- NZ Outdoors and Freedom party
- Yes Aotearoa Party
Post script
I should point out not all the candidates in the last election were soulless people
There were broadly two types of candidates
Those who want to win….
Labour candidate -team of 5 million ra,ra ra
National’s candidate -vote for me and I’ll spend lots of money on roads or something..
Green candidate -can’t honestly remember what they said, but it had a feel good vibe to it…
Those who have something to say….
Outdoors Party, NZ conservative, Advance NZ, etc
These candidates typically speak with conviction, passion and sincerity, and tell us us why they were standing. They tended to be ‘salt of the earth’ types.
Some reminders as to why it’s important to vote…
Uncoffined 
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