By “small minded bigot” I assume you mean they strongly held a view that you felt was wrong and were not willing to change to your view, probably on a moral issue as you use the term “bigot”.

It is easy to label those with differing views to your own as “small minded”, “bigots”, “deniers”, or any of the other labels that are popular. But at the end of the day, they just have a different view.

There are both liberals and conservatives in NZ. We need both represented in parliament. I fully support your right for your views to be represented and would never label you “small minded” for holding them. However, if you do want liberal representation on moral issues, I can only hope you will be at least voting for Act rather than the Green party!

If they don’t like the small minded bigot label then I’d sugest they review their leadership.

I don’t actually need you permission to decide who to vote for just to clear up that spot of confusion and I will not relax when a party like this clearly has a minority view based agenda.

So, is the choice now …

Labour + ACT + Winston First + Greens + Progressives (all beholden to Helen)
vs
National + UF + a support arrangement with the Maori Party

You guys can’t have it both ways but keep arguing the toss and you are giving National a great tool to increase their support at your expense.

May wiser heads prevail in ACT. The same heads that dumped Wang from your List for trying to buy his way into a favourable position.

I would no more support the Family Party than I would Hammas.

The only suprise involving the Family Party this election will be their aducity in asking for my vote.

If you guys intend to shamelessly troll this site trying to leech votes of crdible parties then you will aquire my complete and undivided attention and I’ll quite hapily publish my communications with the Family Party.

Have a nice day.

You are right about a probable lack of division. One of the good things about being in a right wing party is that you don’t have to treat intraparty factions as the enemy. Often times, the left hate each other more than they hate us.

What I can’t understand is why all these voters who are sick of Labour now think they must vote National. There are far more options than just National, a massive diversity of minor parties, one of whom is bound to be far closer to their own views than National is, whatever their views are. NZ politics is no longer just Labour or National.

This poll was a street poll, done face to face with 600 voter’s right throughout NZ.

Which party was the highest polling minor party outside of parliament? The party that has to date only been working very hard in ONE electorate, that electorate is Mangere (which was Labour’s crown). That party is The Family Party.

Let’s give some credit where credit is due as in this poll they have double the support of UF which is a party in Parliament with two MP’s. Poll result show Family party .8% UF .4%

Yes these are still low, but the rise of the minor parties will only now begin to appear and The Family Party is not yet even 12 months old and have been working one electorate only!

I’ll say it again. The Family Party is on track to produce the greatest surprise of this election!

D F why don’t you put up a shot of their new billboards as I’m sure most would agree they are very very good.

I think there are some very good reasons not to vote Labour. As a first cut, record level Current Account deficits, declining labour productivity growth, (often) the highest interest rates in the OECD and the first post-war government to achieve net deforestation. Unsurprisingly we also have record levels of emigration.

In terms of environment policies, DOC’s budget has struggled to keep up with inflation and has suffered actual cuts some years, the Marine Reserves Bill has been languishing in seelct committee for literally years. The National Biodiversity strategy launched in 1999/2000 has been revealed to be all ‘talk’, with 2-3% of the conservation estate receiving optimal pest management and about 3/4 of our [I]most[/I] endangered species still don’t have a recovery plan in place. If feeding native willdife to invasive pests is a key conservation outcome, then Labour has excelled.

Several things. She’s obviously a swing voter, because who in their left mind would vote right wing policies in.

The second thing is she had better hold her nose for the next three years because the excrement that will be heaped on the public over the next three years will stink. Still that’s assuming that National get in.

Worse gooner, it’s like putting Arsenal Shirts on Spurs players, they’re still crap, but even worse crap.

Sorta what I was thinking Gooner, when do we get the post about all the disillusioned National voters?! Though judging by the other minor right parties’ numbers, I guess there are as many stuck in the muds there as there are/were in Labour!

Because the Finance Minister hates”rich pricks” he does not aspire to wealth for the average NZer. That’s why we cannot afford the things we used too. (that and the fact that they have wasted our money on a blown out bureacracy) Those that could have abandoned NZ in droves.

Morally the country has also been deprived of leadership and principles during their time in power. How many Labour ministers and public servants have been “found out” during this government’s time in power?

I love the fact that John Key is rich, I want that for my family too.
I want the country to be led by someone with principles, (like Austin Hemmings whose life was so tragically stolen from him)
Labour may try to paint JK as slippery and shifty, but it doesn’t ring true from a corrupt group of politicians that have done nothing more than to run New Zealand into the ground.

It’s like we used to be a shiny new car, but under Labour, no maintenance has been done, the tyres haven’t been changed and rust has set in. No-one wants to take us out for a spin anymore and we have been parked up on an overgrown section somewhere to rust out. Not even fit for parts!

We need a government that will polish us up, and spend the money to put us back on the road again. Maybe even buy us some new seat covers, give us the full valet. The Greens don’t even think we should be on the road and Labour think driving a nice car is for “rich pricks” NZ first wouldn’t drive a Jap car anyway (well not unless someone else paid for it)

National want us all to be Mercedes, Labour have made us all take the bike.

Well I say “on yer bike” Helen, Cullen, Winston, Mallard, and The Greens. You have run this country into the ground, and it is time for us to take it back and to be proud about being a New Zealander again!

Dear Mr Robertson.

Like most New Zealander’s I have been following the antics of Winston Peters. I can understand his reluctance to admit his errors, and I can understand his tactics in trying to remian in Parliament.

What I, and apparantly many other New Zealander’s, cannot understand is Helen Clark’s reluctance to either publicly admint he is at fault, or to publily punish him for this. He has been found in contempt by his peers, despite the politicising of the reuslt by Labour, but nothing is being seen to be done.

My main point in this letter is to question the morality and ethics of the leadership of the New Zealand Labour Party. I recall Helen campaigning in 1999 on cleaning up goverment, and operating on transperancy and honesty. I doubt very much that anyone in Labour can honestly say that is how they are operating now. I cannot comprehend how the current campiagn can be based on trust.

I am asking you to question your morality and ethics – do you really think the decisions being made by the Labour leadership are the best for New Zealand? Do you really think their behaviour is apprpriate for a civlised western democracy? Can you honestly, hand on heart, say you back these decisons and, if in the position, would be making the same decisions yourself?

The Labour party has always been for the worker, the common man, but now all I see is a dictatorship determined to remian in power whatever the cost. This is not what’s best for New Zealand.

Yours