Act Party looking to stand candidates in local elections for first time
The Act Party has announced it is looking to stand candidates in the upcoming local council elections, saying it’s “time for a clean-out”.
As the Herald revealed on Tuesday morning, leader David Seymour is calling for expressions of interest from New Zealanders to stand for their local council under the Act Party banner. Local elections will be held in October.
This will be the first time Act has looked to field candidates in local elections.
Love him or hate him or love too hate him, Seymour is an alpha predator of the political world.
After the appalling failure of the school lunches, the Treaty Principles Bill and managing to desecrate everything they touch, ACT are expanding into local politics with a brilliant scheme of getting rich prick libertarian reactionaries to fund their own campaigns.
Because everyone universally despises local politics, ACT have a great chance of real representation.
The long term plan for ACT is to mutilate the state so badly it can’t function and getting in at the grass roots level is a perfect way to destroy good will and communities.
It’s a diabolical strategic genius.
Now, as for his claim during the announcement of raiding local politics that Libertarian Jesus would vote ACT…
…ummmmm.
At least Libertarian Jesus would be able to feed all the kids with 3 loaves and a fish without burning any children, and I’m not sure where Jesus would be with Party President’s caught abusing children, because that’s more a Catholic Priest thing.
Jesus doesn’t give me an uptight, anti-Māori libertarian incel vibe, it’s way more molotov cocktail throwing marxist…
Matthew 5:3 Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Mark 10:21 And Jesus, looking at him, loved him, and said to him, “You lack one thing: go, sell all that you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”
Luke 6:20 And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
2 Corinthians 8:9 For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich.
2 Corinthians 9:11 You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God.
Galatians 2:10 Only, they asked us to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do.
Ephesians 4:28 Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.
…Jesus seems pretty keen on a capital gains taxes and doesn’t sound like he wants to create loopholes for property speculators.
I don’t think Jesus would vote for ACT, I get the feeling Jesus would instead break the 7th seal outside David’s electorate office and unleash the Apocalypse and dump the entire ACT front bench into the 7th level of hell.
But then again, I’m no theologian.
Jesus recruitment aside, it’s a very smart play on the local politics putsch though, the Left need to stop underestimating the wide eyed amputation of the State he as a Free Market Stormtrooper represents.
ACT are here for an ideological war, while the Left still aren’t sure what they actually believe beyond pronoun policing, militant cycling and cancelling anyone who doesn’t think female comedians are that funny.
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Act candidates will dominate wherever they stand.
Hahahahahahaha!!!!
https://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/4134991/Baby-identity-theft-still-upsets-family
Looking at the calibre of their Govt M.P’s…I would shudder to think who they could scrape up for local politics.
Agree Bob the Fart they will dominate the list of arseholes for sure
Act is getting all juiced up and ready for all the attention that will come from the local council Māori Wards referendums. They must be salivating – having gorged themselves on the maggot ridden carcass of the Treaty Principles Bill – they are now ravenous for more. An insatiable vampire like appetite for race focused, white-lash grievances.
Richard Hills and Chris Darby are gone. Number 42 and 442 on Labour’s 2026 MMP list
The average ratepayer is sick of the corruption and incompetence in local government. If ACT can provide some scrutiny on where the money is going, all good.
Look at your local council and you will find out where it goes!
Ohhhh nooooo Martyn, you’ve mentioned Jebus and added passages from the sky fairy book, Bonnie is gonna be all over this and telling us we are going to burn in a lake of fire! Sigggghhh
Who drew? Andy likes to play at serious political discussion and thinks ACt can do some good for him personally and his type. So that’s all right with him.
The emptyheads broil their ideas with chilli sauce until they are unrecognisable. What would Gordon Ramsay saysaysaysay????
If you’re so incompetent that you confuse me with Zelda it’s probably time for you to change your nappy.
Bonnie, I B Wrong is just another mindless confused righty wanker, pay the troll no mind.
david seymour’s an agent for those who’ve been stealing farmer money for decades. The thieves are multi-generational con artist politicians, banks and private corporate’s who’ve each individually and collectively inherited a criminals responsibility to cover up the tracks of those criminals before them and so on and so on. Think having a meth addict tiger by the tail? You got to hang on. No matter what. Rogers particular iteration of neoliberalism is simply a means of whitewashing over the details of who made our money and of who now has it. Honestly, it’s that simple.
Let me put it this way.
If you thought you were a genuine and noble person who grew up in a secure and proud environment then suddenly you came to learn that your inherited wealth was swindled from the pockets of others… what would you do? Drag your family through the courts and/or media out of little more than knowing it’d be the right thing to do? Or..? Swallow your pride and take the money?
Seymour’s a track coverer. He’s a winston peters clone. Peters and seymour will be playing tag-team cover-up strategies just like I’m certain peters did with a previous governor of the reserve bank, don brash. There’s even a photograph somewhere of peters and brash all but holding hands. But where is it? Who has it? Who took it?
You see what I mean?
I think you meant ‘daemonic’, Martyn. Seymour has a point. Only downside is these people get washed in out of councils as a reaction to national politics.
Green and Labour Party run Wellington
How on earth could ACT possibly be worse