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# Nationals Lost Backbone From Holland to Luxon
- URL: https://goodoil.news/nationals-lost-backbone-from-holland-to-luxon/
- Published: 2025-09-05T19:30:06.000Z
- Updated: 2025-09-05T19:30:06.000Z
- Description: Best of MountainsideFM.
- Author: MountainsideFM
- Tags: Podcasts, NZ Politics

When Sidney Holland and his colleagues founded the National Party in 1936, they were unambiguous in their purpose. 

National was to be a conservative force against socialism, rooted in the values of **self-reliance, personal responsibility, thrift, and private enterprise**.

Its charter opposed compulsory state welfare schemes and insisted that New Zealanders should provide for their own retirement, health, and security through savings, family, and private initiative. 

It was a party of conviction, standing firmly as an alternative to Labour’s expanding welfare state. 

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