United Future
Since: Aug 2007
Posts: 314

BLOG: UnitedFuture: Keeping National anchored in the centre.

Posted in Discussion Forum at 05:55AM, 10 May 2011 ∞ Permalink

Late last week Don Brash successfully completed his hostile takeover of ACT, and I said at the time that his victory may well delight one in twenty voters, but it would ring alarm bells for the other nineteen.
I stand by that.
A Don Brash-led ACT in a position to push National to the far right after the next election will concern the vast majority of New Zealanders who are not of a far right disposition.
Behind Brash’s gentlemanly ways and old school manners is a rigid far right ideologue whose right wing economic ‘purity’ means he will not hesitate to ‘burn the village to save it’.
Make no mistake, if Don Brash has influence over the next government just watch the New Zealand that we know become a harsher, more brutal place.
In saying all this, Ohariu voters are actually going to have a unique say in the composition of the next government in a way that few other electorates do... Read the full text of this blog post.

QuentinTodd
Since: Sep 2008
Posts: 44

Posted at 05:55AM, 10 May 2011 ∞ Permalink

As much as I don't like immature men who take power way too seriously, and in New Zealand it seems like it's men more than women, I have found the recent ACT takeover by Brash, disturbing. Ironically, Hone Harawira's observation on TVOne's Q+A last Sunday, is right when he said that it was the most undemocratic thing ever done in this country and under MMP: off the street, not a party member, and straight into the top job. Hello! Good point!

Therefore Peter, as usual you are right in your observation in keeping National centred for the second term, which I believe, like you, will get back in. Two very strange minor parties, and a comeback kid (Winston Peters), sends me to the bathroom cabinet for more Panadol.

One of the most astute moves on my part these last few years has been becoming a member of UnitedFuture. A party who looks both ways before crossing the road like we were taught at primary school. Basic, sensible and safer. Such fallouts from a child not doing that while crossing the road, brings nothing but tragedy, heartache and a great deal of sadness. I wish to God, that some of these so called minor parties would follow UnitedFuture's way of doing politics, instead of the awful waste they are currently engaged in.

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