Matt L
I’ve decided to start a new political party. The Pissant Protest Party will stand for all those people who have looked at the dozens of new parties that split the freedom vote and decided they need one more.
I’m not sure why I’m starting the PPP, as I have no hope of getting into parliament, but I’m kind of hoping it will feed my ego. Maybe I’ll get followers on Facebook and perhaps I can persuade gullible people to give me a lot of financial and physical resources that I can spend on ‘campaigning’ expenses.
It could be a great way to stick it to the New Conservative Party for not recognising the effort I put in 2017.
After the election I’ll be able to bask in the warm glow of persuading voters to waste their votes and resources on PPP, so their seats are reallocated to Labour, Greens and the other anti-freedom parties. I might get a payoff from the bleak despair of voters who want to make a change and can see it won’t come.
Anyway Please Vote PPP for No Change in Politics.
The recent Auckland Mayor elections saw a bunch of sensible candidates stand against one Green Party loon. The Green Party loon was well on his way to winning, but candidates such as Leo Malloy watched the polls, saw they had no hope of winning, dropped out of the race and endorsed ultimate winner, Wayne Brown.
Well done to those true public servants who buried their egos and wrote off their sunk costs for the betterment of the Super City.
Right now we have a plethora of pissant parties purporting to stand for change in national elections. All they are doing is sucking the resources from people who have the greatest of good intentions, and we need one that can succeed.
It’s time to face the brutal light of reality and admit to yourselves there’s no path into parliament for a dozen competing parties. Negotiate. Draw straws. Cut cards. Play Hunger Games. Do whatever it takes, but get it down to one viable party.
You don’t have to wind up your party organisation, but take a realistic look at yourselves, at who can pass the five per cent threshold and either form a viable coalition or ask your voters to support a party that can get over the threshold. Otherwise you may just as well be campaigning for the Labour, Green and Maori Party Coalition and you are betraying the very people that you are purporting to represent.
Asking other parties to become your vassals isn’t good faith negotiating. If the media has turned your brand into electoral poison, stay in the background – no matter how many good works your organisation has done. Get those egos in check for the good of the country and be remembered as visionary leaders, not morons.
Time is short: act now.
