ACT loses another candidate just weeks out from election
ACT has lost another candidate just weeks out from the election.
The party’s candidate for Taranaki King Country, Brent Miles, withdrew last week for personal reasons, a spokesperson for the party said.
1News had asked why Miles had been removed from ACT’s website.
The spokesperson said ACT would not comment further.
Miles previously stood for ACT at the 2020 election.
It means five ACT candidates have now withdrawn in recent weeks — Elaine Naidu-Franz, Darren Gilchrist, Scott Boness, Anto Coates and now Miles.
Naidu-Franz, the party’s Rangitata candidate, immediately resigned after online comments where she likened vaccine mandates to Nazi concentration camps came to light.
What in the name of the zombie Jesus is happening over in ACT?
The deep dumpster dive of poorly vetted ACT candidates having to suddenly drop out is as eye rolling as it is terrifyingly hilarious.
Eye rolling because taking deep dumpster dives into peoples Social Media history is so fucking tedious and woke pious!
Terrifyingly hilarious because the cavalcade of political circus freaks ACT have attracted is because of ACTs extreme rhetoric and this sense that ACT are extremist is now either exciting a shell shocked numb electorate or repulsing them.
ACTs candidate selection board resembles a panel of lepers judging a beauty contest.
As ACTs power builds, the vested interests that generate pressure groups and fund factions are growing.
The Gun Fetishists will get their favourite sociopath machine gun back while dumping the Gun Registry.
Corporations wanting Public Private Partnerships are getting everything they want.
The stealth privatisation of Phramac has begun with their Number 4 Party Pharmaceutical Pimp.
Managing these extremists is difficult because they all want bone cutting reforms and pure amputations of the State.
Critics of Seymour have taken him literally and not seriously, his latest threat to National of giving them only Confidence if David doesn’t get his extremist agenda highlights just how extreme the gulf between ACT policy and National policy really is…
ACT’s David Seymour floats confidence-only partnership – no supply
ACT has floated the possibility of a new kind of governing arrangement if National refuses to cooperate during post-election negotiations.
Party leader David Seymour has threatened to resort to a confidence-only deal, which would require the larger party to seek ACT’s backing for all government spending – or “supply” – decisions on a case-by-case basis.
Recent polls suggest National and ACT could form a government together, but National having to also rely on NZ First – who ACT has ruled out – is also a real possibility.
National has also begun ruling out – or in some cases merely rejecting – ACT policies.
Seymour says if National is not prepared to “fully share power”, his party would consider a minority-government position.
“We’re prepared to do it if the alternative is taking the baubles of office and letting our voters in New Zealand down. So yep, I’ve done it before – I turned down being a minister to do End of Life Choice,” he says.
However, his version would be a different flavour to what NZ First’s Winston Peters has threatened in the past:
“I think we’d be able to be clear that, you know, while they have the confidence of the house, if they want to pass Budgets they are going to have to rely on another party,” Seymour said.
“I think it would probably be just confidence.”
This would mean that although ACT would help National form a government, they could refuse to support its spending initiatives – a break from the traditional “confidence and supply” agreement which sees the minor party guarantee to support the larger’s Budget.
…if Labour, Greens and Maori Party are the Coalition of Chaos, then National, ACT and NZ First are the Alliance of Arseholes and they are fighting before the election is even held!
People don’t understand how wide eyed ACT are about implementing harsh reforms that will cause enormous carnage, that they are openly threatening National should be an enormous red flag that ACT has intention of moderating any policy!
We are facing a situation where the Country will be held to ransom by an extremist hard right Party and the political media want to scream about an advert Labour got wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK!
How is it that an extremist hard right Political Party can openly threaten National and hold the country to ransom and the political media are bickering about truth in social media adverts???
When is the actual, you know, serious Election coverage by the mainstream media going to start or is it really just ZB talking points all the way through till October?
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Based on that photo I would vote for Seymour.
Jack, you mean you would vote for a automated twat asking to go have a piss
You’d vote for him into a coalition with a guy who got slayed again by a semi competent interviewer this morning.
Be good watching on Maori TV tomorrow night when Moana takes on Seymour. She and her channel are not beholden to anyone white so it will be all on. She shit all over Luxon a while ago so I doubt we will see him back on her show.
Calm the farm.
I was being facetious.
I wouldn’t vote for ACT in any scenario.
But come on, look at the other two muppets.
He looks like he is screaming “MATT DAMON!!!”
Calm the farm.
I was being facetious.
I wouldn’t vote for ACT in any scenario.
But look at the other 2 muppets, hardly inspirational.
Seymour is trying with all his might to keep his candidates looking just sane enough until the election, as if ACT was a multi headed amoebic medusa, that Seymour needs to chop the heads off of, each time one of his candidates pops their head up, and is caught saying what they really think. I can just imagine the conversations Seymour must be having, trying to stop them showing their real colours, when all they want to do is burst out showing their real colours:
ACT Campaign Manager: Sorry David, but our 12th candidate, Idi Amein is in favour of genocides.
Seymour: Chop him!
ACT Campaign Manager: Now Benito is going on about special treatment along race lines.
Seymour: Chop him!
ACT Campaign Manager: 14th candidate Richard Darmer wants to diversify our meat exports.
Seymour: Chop him!
ACT Campaign Manager: 19th candidate Charlie Manson is throwing poo at our supporters.
Seymour: Chop him!
ACT Campaign Manager: 26th candidate Andres Brevik says he loves ACTS gun policy.
Seymour: He can stay!
ACT Campaign Manager: I got a text from Jamie saying that as we’re fast losing candidates, he’ll put his hand up, if we agree to change the laws on incest just a little.
Seymour: Although my sister is certainly attractive, tell him sorry, but no can do, though I’ll keep it under consideration!
ACT Campaign Manager: Putin says you’ve got his vote.
Seymour: Of course! Like me, he’s a guy who knows how to get things done.
National are going to run Goldsmith in Epsom instead of just the party vote. Imagine if Goldsmith won! He wont because the cancer that is Seymour is entrenched.
While I have no idea about any specific candidate, as I only personally know one person standing for ACT (and she is a very impressive candidate, intelligent, talented & very accomplished and New Zealand would be lucky to have her in Parliament).
One of the possible reasons for candidates standing down, is that things are starting to get real. It might be fun to stand as a candidate, knowing you’re 15th or greater on the list and there is little likelihood of having to give up your job, your business, your life and throw your family into turmoil to take a place in Parliament. However, the way things are currently moving, lower ranked candidates may find themselves elected and it is better to pull out at this stage, if you aren’t prepared to make that serious commitment.
Acts circus freaks are better than Labours circus freaks & that’s the problem.
All the parties have 3 eyed circus freaks.
But it’s the Kitchen Cabniet that matters.
And you’re more a freak than everybody and that’s the problem, no one takes you seriously.
They’re far too sensitive.
Saying something on Facebook a decade ago isn’t worthy of being forced to resign. Unless it’s something of reasonable import, David should just tell the media to bugger off.
So ACT getting rid of candidates at the first sign of trouble is bad? Looks more like ACT hold high expectations and if not met, then there’s the door. It’s a contrast to Allan, Whaitiri, Nash, Wood, etc…
Yeti yah fucking joking. ACT is just the Trump party of NZ and who in their right minds wants that.
Nash & Co were the corner stones of Labour, without them, the building crumbles…
Yea nah. It’s like saying Brownlie and Collins are the cornerstone of National, well given his size maybe big Gezza is.
Don’t remember them having to resign in disgrace, unlike many of the Labour examples.
Like the CTU shooting of fish in a barrel with that Luxon attack ad, this is the wrong thing to focus on. The right are better at fearmongering than we are (because they don’t care about sticking to the facts), so whenever the left campaign on Fear of the Other, we’re playing on their home turf. If we do this for the next few weeks, we will lose.
How about we play a different game, one that we’re better at? The game of explaining the deep causes of problems, and the solutions that can actually solve them? If we focus the campaign on policy, we expose the right’s intellectual bankruptcy, and we will win.
Policy, policy, policy!
Thats a joke. Labour have many dum ideas and execute nothing.
Seymour can laugh at himself, Chippy can a bit too, but Luxon can’t. He is not comfortable in his own skin. He needs JK for encouragement. Sad really.
Fortunately, Labour and Greens don’t seem to ever have any problems with their candidates. Totally stable. No resignations. No disgraceful conduct. No arrests. Oh wait.
Not sure why ACT were even running in Taranaki King Country. In an act of supreme optimism, ACT published a its list with 55 members as potential MP’s. Brent Miles didn’t even make the list. Maybe his lack of a listing convinced him that no matter how many of his co-imbeciles dropped out of the lower rankings, the person in seat number 55 does not have a snowball’s chance in hell of finishing among the money.
You sound sick Bob the first perhaps we need to speak to Bob the 2nd.
You sound sick Bob the first perhaps we need to speak to Bob the 2nd.
You sound sick Bob the first perhaps we need to speak to Bob the 2nd.
You sound sick Bob the first perhaps we need to speak to Bob the 2nd.
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