Over the weekend the Act Party and both David Seymour and Nicole McKee took it upon themselves to attack NZ First over firearms policy. With a target-rich environment of a chaotic and failing Government, the strategic geniuses in the Act Party decided to attack a potential coalition partner.
“NZ First couldn’t find the courage to save licenced firearms owners in 2019, but it might just magically appear in time for an election”, [sic] says ACT’s Firearms Reform Spokesperson Nicole McKee.
“Shane Jones has told a shooting organisation that NZ First is going to apologise to licenced firearms owners for supporting the Government’s firearms reforms and that they will oppose the firearms register.
“It’s amazing that NZ First can find their principles when votes are at stake.
“The best indicator of future performance is past performance. When the chips were down, NZ First betrayed licenced firearms owners and, if it suits them, they’ll do it again.
“Licenced firearms owners have long memories, and they know that only ACT stood up for them. After our nation’s tragedy in Christchurch, only ACT opposed the Government’s rushed and reckless lawmaking.
“NZ First has let voters down time and time again. Given the chance, they’ll repeat the cycle: Promise. Betray. Apologise. Repeat.”
Act Party Press Release
Winston Peters has stated he isn’t going to do any deals with Labour after this coming election. The polls are all showing that National and Act will need a third party to be able to get over the line to form a Government. It is highly unlikely that party would be the racists in the Maori Party. That just leaves NZ First with the potential to be that partner.
And Act has attacked them, instead of attacking the Government. It is politically, strategically and tactically stupid doing that.
They must have balls of steel betting that NZ First won’t make it back into parliament, and they must know something more than the astute pollsters do about what the likely make up of parliament is going to look like to be so arrogantly confident about attacking a potential coalition partner.
Never mind the fact that they are outraged about politicians wanting to show contrition and apologise for a mistake. No, Act has to tell them off and insult them.
Never mind too, that after the 2020 election, David Seymour stood on my front lawn at our staff party and told about twenty people who were talking with him, that he was going to do precisely nothing for firearms owners, because he already has firearms owners as a voting block locked and loaded forever, and therefore he was going to move on from their concerns because it was “boring” and they will vote for him anyway, even if they won’t move on from their grievances. I’m not making this up. He said it – there were plenty of witnesses to it. Some in the firearms community who were there stood mouths agape, at what they’d just heard. To be fair to Nicole McKee, she probably doesn’t know what David Seymour actually thinks about firearms owners, but she does now.
What this attack shows though is not supreme confidence, it is actually showing panic from the Act Party, that someone else may steal “their” voters, the very same voters that David Seymour told me to my face he no longer cared for. Now that they are at risk he’s decided to find his principles.
Well, we all know how much David Seymour’s principles are worth…three-fifths of five-eighths of stuff all. David Seymour has crusaded around the country banging on about free speech. The Act Party professes to be classical liberals, yet when push comes to shove, David Seymour is very much in the shove and big government team. He wanted to do everything Jacinda Ardern did, but faster, harder and more efficiently in the stripping of our rights. He was for mandates before he was against them. Most recently he was opining that beneficiaries should be stripped of benefits for not completing the census. So, their great freedom lover and believer in small government is actually enamoured with the coercive aspects of the state. He is no freedom lover, he is a rank hypocrite.
The day after the election David Seymour may regret his constant and persistent sniping at a potential coalition partner. But then again he really has never struck me as being sensible politically.
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