Dear Editor
It has been some time since I wrote the letter concerning the New Nation Party, which was published on the BFD website on Tuesday 8 March.
When I originally wrote the letter, I had not heard back from anyone associated with the Party. I have now received my membership card and have had personal contact with Michael Jacomb, the founder and CEO of NNP.
There is a great deal going on behind the scenes, especially in connection with the Party becoming registered with the Electoral Commission, which should happen in the next few weeks. Membership is growing steadily and the Party’s website is receiving a growing amount of traffic.
Plans are underway to develop the website and make it more interactive. There are also some other initiatives being discussed as to how to get the “message” out to New Zealand prior to the next election.
Questions are often raised about the 5% voting threshold for new parties. If a new party does not breach that threshold, won’t this be a “wasted vote”?
Well, here’s the thing: When I gave my party vote to National and to ACT, I helped them further an agenda that is moving progressively away from the founding principles of both those parties. I will not do that again.
I don’t want Labour/Green lite. I am looking for a party that believes in freedom and the Bill of Rights. I don’t want to support a party of political elites who look down their noses on ordinary Kiwis and tell them to shut up and do what they say because they know best.
I am looking for a party that will let us live our lives without tyrannical government interference.
I am looking for a party that will allow New Zealand to have and develop its own culture and its own responses to the issues of the day rather than sign us up to overseas initiatives and directives, with no prior consultation with the people, and then force legislation upon us that the country does not want and would never vote for if this was made an election issue.
I am looking for a party that is self-consciously not woke and not enslaved to overseas interests and concerns.
I am looking for a party that will overtly reject the Great Reset and the goals of the WEF.
I want a party that is not socialist or communist, but genuinely populist in nature and in policy.
Since I will no longer vote for one of the existing parties, I will be giving my vote to NNP. Will it breach the 5% threshold? I believe, given the current climate, both internationally, and here in New Zealand, that any party that stands for and promotes freedom will do well – surprisingly well.
And if it doesn’t? Well, my vote will end up being split evenly between all the other parties. Which is essentially the same as not voting at all. What have I lost? I ended up getting precisely that when I voted for one of the existing parties – plus an outsize dose of disillusionment that I didn’t ask for.
Not convinced? Well, remember how they all cowered behind their closed doors and refused even to acknowledge, let alone talk to and listen to, the ordinary Kiwis who bothered to make the effort to take their concerns to their place of work. A river of filth, they called them. A mob. And all the rest of the sneering insults. These are the political elites in Wellington and they are all cut from the same bolt of cloth.
It seems to me that in supporting a new party, there is not much to lose, but there is a great deal to gain if the right people are sent to Wellington.
Here is what Michael Jacomb, the CEO and founder of NNP writes:
Our policy has always been to bring back common sense policies and solutions. The need for this has never been more evident than the last 18 months of this present Government. National debt is at an all time high with spending increasingly defying logic and justification. This must stop, and debt reduced. Our pathway to recovery will rely on domestic spending stimulating local business and our primary sector exports being increased.
Our Primary sector earns in excess of $50 billion annually, however, current Government rules and regulations impede further growth. With the proposed changes to the Emissions Trading Scheme, for Farmers and Agricultural sector producers…set to reduce production further, we must act to remove these barriers and increase production beyond the current revenue.
Of course, it is still early days for NNP. Candidates will need to be named and doubtless, as the election nears, more detailed policy initiatives will be released. But a week in politics is a long time and 18 months is an eternity. A lot can happen for the minor parties between now and then.
Michael Flinn
