Beyond the mocking of Colin Craig, there is a very simple reason there is little to cheer over him standing down as Leader of the Conservatives.
What many like to forget is that the Conservatives gained 3.97% and that their policy platform, especially on assets, was actually very left in some regards. Colin is kooky and geeky and absurd at times, but he has managed to put a reasonable face on a pretty unreasonable group of voters.
Those who vote Conservative are pretty hostile towards Maori rights, Women’s rights, Gay rights, global warming and criminals. Colin was able to round off much of their deep hatred towards modernity and it was perhaps his reasonableness that he didn’t manage to crack 5%.
Replacing Colin with someone like David Garrett, Ross Meurant, Christine Rankin or God forbid Garth McVicar would give the Conservatives the hard edge the members want and anyone of those have the ability to spin the politics of hate into gold.
Colin Craig’s real crime for his Conservative Party faithful was not attacking Farrier in that sauna – this is Grade A bigotry not politics and progressives may yearn for Craig once the smoke clears and we see what is left standing.
I dunno, do we really want people who believe in chem trails, moon landing conspiracy and so on leading a party.
You don’t believe there are chemtrails Dan? Try looking up in the sky occasionally. Oh, and I don’t wear a tin foil hat, it just doesn’t go with anything I like to wear.
That would be the only reason you dont wear a tin foil hat
DAN;and others,
Evidence of geoengineering with just one search on just one trusted and highly respected website.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/search?q=geoengineering%2Fweather+manipulation%2Fwarfare&x=12&y=13
Better late than never.
Cheers.
Is Colin not THE Conservative Party. If he is ousted who is going to bankroll that lot?
I think you are right
Any of the possible or hypothetical contenders listed above will though be unelectable for many voters, given their rather abrasive personality and character. So I would not think that the Conservatives will survive this departure of Colin that well.
Colin Craig was also the main financier of the party, so without his money, they may struggle more than they ever had to before.
I suspect that Colin will play carrot and stick with the party he intends to stay with as a member. He will expect them to do as he expects for them to get more funding. If they stray too far from where he would like the party to go, then he will withhold or withdraw further funding. The same may apply re what new “leader” they may appoint, if the person is one Colin is not feeling that comfortable with, they may face financial troubles.
The Cons have been a rather bizarre lot of people anyway, looking at their members. There will be internal rivalries, and I doubt very much that Garth McVicar will gain more votes for the Cons than Colin managed to attract.
I rather see the end of the Conservatives, as I have also heard from an insider, that there have been rather hostile discussions amongst some senior and not so senior members.
Colin has certainly made no friends on their Board, as it was revealed on the ONE News tonight, so he will likely never be back as a potential leader.
This is the end of another political experiment, and I am glad it will be so.
Let us focus on what the more progressive parties face for challenges, and hope they will find ways to regain the trust of disillusioned and the many other non voters, that is more important, I think.
What does it mean to be a conservative?
Try and see if this conservatism fits to partner with JFK’s autocratic Governance?
http://www.conservativedailynews.com/2009/08/what-does-it-mean-to-be-conservative/
In 1964, In USA Frank Meyer, called together a group that included a broad base of political thinkers to help create the tenets of conservatism:
◾They accept “an objective moral order” of “immutable standards by which human conduct should be judged.”
◾Whether they emphasize human rights and freedoms or duties and responsibilities, they unanimously value “the human person” as the centre of political and social thought.
◾They oppose liberal attempts to use the State “to enforce ideological patterns on human beings.”
◾They reject the centralized power and direction necessary to the “planning” of society.
◾They join in defence of the Constitution “as originally conceived.”
◾They are devoted to Western civilization and acknowledge the need to defend it against the “messianic” intentions of Communism.
“These are the foundations of conservatism. America was founded on the rights of the individual and limited government. Conservatives pride themselves on protecting those concepts.”
It seems if Colin Craig was true to these tenants then he would be definitely at odds with Key and has Henchmen/Women as they are total central Government control freak’s no?
Why is Key & co amalgamating all the councils?
So he can easily control them with one swipe of new amendments to Local Government Act yes?
So a true Conservative Government who believes in “the rights of the individual and limited government” that wont work for Key & co will it?
Perhaps Colin Craig saw this and decided to jump off Planet key or get hung for being a traitor to “conservatism”.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Winston picks up most of their vote share from people that are conservative voters but couldn’t stomach voting National. I’d never have voted for him, but I can’t say I would mind if Colin had made it to parliament. People who think outside the box can make a valid contribution in politics.
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