These are the core values of the National Party, taken from their current website:
We believe this will be achieved by building a society based on the following values:
- Loyalty to our country, its democratic principles and our Sovereign as Head of State
- Recognition of the Treaty of Waitangi as the founding document of New Zealand
- National and personal security
- Equal citizenship and equal opportunity
- Individual freedom and choice
- Personal responsibility
- Competitive enterprise and rewards for achievement
- Limited Government
- Strong families and caring communities
- Sustainable development of our environment.
Do you think the National Party has honoured its core values in recent weeks? In particular, how do you think they have honoured the core values around ‘personal freedom and choice’?
The National Party stayed silent while people who did not want to take an experimental vaccine were marginalised and turned into second class citizens. When protesters went to parliament, wanting to be heard, all MPs from the National Party turned their backs. Not one of them would deign to go and meet the protesters and hear their concerns about the erosion of their ‘personal freedom and choice’.
Once a political party ignores its core principles, it is done for. By staying silent while personal freedoms were taken away and peaceful protesters were attacked with batons, pepper spray and tear gas, they have lost their moral code. No one can believe in them anymore.
Michael Wood, of Labour, described nurses, teachers, firefighters, plumbers and midwives as ‘rivers of filth’. Did Christopher Luxon, Nicola Willis or Chris Bishop leap to their feet to defend ordinary New Zealand citizens being insulted in this way? The silence was deafening. And silence, in a situation like that, indicates complicity.
Socialist elites have treated ordinary people like ‘rivers of filth’ for a long time but we never expected the party that supposedly stands up for individual freedoms to comply.
Instead, they all wrote tweets praising the brutality of the police as they punched old men in the head, beat up women in gutters and sprayed pepper spray and fire extinguishers at people trying to escape.
No one can justify this. Luxon and by default the entire National Party have alienated themselves from the people they are supposed to represent; those who want to get ahead in life by exercising their freedom of choice.
If no one in National has the guts to stand up for our Bill of Rights, which allows New Zealanders to refuse any medical procedure they are offered, or for that matter allows New Zealanders to return to their home country any time they choose, they are not fit to govern. Their social media feeds prove that they are losing voters in droves.
The reason why we are allowed to refuse medical treatments goes back to the 1930s… meaning we never want to go back to the days of the Nazis ever again.
And yet, here we are.
Socialist governments all over the world trample all over people’s rights and freedoms. That is what has happened here in New Zealand. However, we have the right to expect the party that claims to honour individual freedom and choice to stand up for those principles, on behalf of the country. The fact that our National Party cannot bring itself to do that, in spite of its own core values, proves they are not fit to form a government. They do not deserve to survive this.
My prediction is that they will not.
