Destiny NZ disbands

Yay. The Destiny NZ Party has disbanded.

However the party leader, Richard Lewis, will be co-leader of a new broader multi-denominational Christian party.

The other co-leader has been chosen but is a secret. So much for open and transparent democratic parties.

I don’t object in a general sense to a family values party. United Future has generally been a relatively benign example of one. My objections are when they more resemble Christian Heritage and are relatively extreme. It will be interesting to see who are the key people in this new party, and what policies they will have.

Labour no doubt will be hoping they are successful in getting 4.9% of the vote.

UPDATE: Gordon Copeland has announced he is the other co-leader.  It makes a lot of sense considering he has over a year to go in Parliament and can use that for profile.

I like Gordon.  He’s been on several Select Committees I have appeared before and is always diligent, and asks sensible questions rather than score points.  Motivated by his beliefs and I have no problem with that. I reserve judgement on his new party, but I’ll be frank – something that looks like a coalition with Destiny does not appeal greatly.  They got a mere 0.6% of the vote.  You need a much broader church than that to make 5%.