Act Party candidate Elaine Naidu Franz highlights Labour’s last electoral chance
An Act candidate has resigned after her historical comments comparing Covid-19 vaccine mandates to Nazi concentration camps came to light.
Another candidate has apologised and renounced online comments which suggested drownings were connected to the effect of the vaccine, but he has been kept on as a candidate.
Act leader David Seymour said the party’s Rangitata candidate Elaine Naidu Franz, 29th on the list, had offered to stand down after 1News brought her previous comments to Seymour’s attention today.
Seymour said he accepted her offer on the spot.
Act’s Waikato candidate Darren Gilchrist, 48th on the list, had apologised to Seymour over comments he’d made which included linking deaths caused by drowning to the Covid-19 vaccine.
Seymour said Gilchrist had disavowed those comments, saying they were made during a time of high tension in New Zealand concerning vaccination.
NZ First have a candidate who believes there are nano robots in the vaccine, so comparing Covid-19 vaccine mandates to Nazi concentration camps seems quaint.
Because Labour have delivered so little and promised less, all they have is the fear of how far Right a National/ACT Government will go…
Chris Hipkins is sharpening his knives, prepping to get negative and run a campaign based on the fear of what a National-ACT coalition Government would bring.
The race relations row got fiery in Parliament on Tuesday with Labour accusing ACT of relying on an “openly racist” campaign platform.
…this is not a stupid tactic.
ACT aren’t just looking at dumping the Ministry for Pacific Peoples’ (who didn’t help themselves with their ill judged $40 000 piss up), they are intending to dump the Ministry for Youth Affairs, Ministry of Womens Affairs, the Ministry for Māori Affairs, the Ministry for Ethnic Affairs and the Human Rights Commission, while stripping out all the environmental legislation passed over the last 6 years, including any worker rights and renter rights on top of a referendum where he will redefine the Treaty and then just force it upon Māori!
Those Ministries provide important input to legislation, they are the voice of Women, Pacifica, Māori, Youth and Ethnic Communities in our Democracy. They are the important evolutions you build so that Democracy isn’t just the the tyranny of the majority, that those in society with less power are ensured their interests are considered.
Do they spend money on silly stuff sometimes, sure, but that is a tiny price to pay for the role they play within our democracy. To amputate the State in a way that eliminates Māori, Pacifica, Youth, Women and Ethnic Communities WHILE removing the Human Rights Commission is extraordinarily brutal and creates a lesser, weaker democracy.
ACT are effectively asking you to dump all welfare because one person was caught defrauding WINZ.
The extreme nature and ease with which David Seymour would manipulate a hapless Chris Luxon whose own extreme policies of allowing Landlords to throw tenants out onto the streets alongside their mass immigration policies are going to make renters lives miserable.
Nothing National or ACT are putting up as solutions will do anything other than make the rich far richer.
There’s a reason the Billionaire class are throwing money into National and ACT, and they ain’t doing it for us!
We are already seeing examples of National Party donors having their pet projects promoted by National in what will be a cluster fuck orgy of crony capitalism that will make Labour’s sins look childish in comparison…
Un-fucking-believable!
It’s so ghoulishly self interested.
When the books get opened next month, the full scale of the Chinese slow down and our exposure to that will spook the markets and the sense of economic crisis requiring extreme privatisation measures will abound.
The difference will be National will hack the State for juicy contracts to their mates while ACT will hack the State as the ideological stormtroopers that they are.
Labour and the Greens need to drive attention to what the shared policy platform would look like and warn voters now.
Because it’s going to be very grim.
There are two true motivators in politics, fear and anger. ACT and National have taken anger, Greens and Labour will take fear.
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The Ministry of Women is now the Ministry of anyone who identifies as a women, so absolutely no loss to me if they go!
Congratulations. This is actually the stupidest strawman argument anyone has ever made, ever.
The fruit loop ACT candidates simply match their fruit loop policies.
Their policies have a lot going for them and it is the voters who will decide if they are loopy or not just as we know promises made by Labour are not worth reading as so little has been achieved from their 2017 or 2020 promises.
To vote Labour you’ve got to:
Have no expectations of them achieving anything they promise, in fact expect the opposite.
Accept that they make decisions based on polling, focus groups and negative press with virtually no other thinking process and no thought of the repercussions.
Expect far more anti democratic constitutional surprises they hid from voters.
Continue the lawlessness they’ve encouraged but pretend we are all feeling safe.
Accept a major lack of integrity from our government.
Continue their hidden ideology in broadcasting masquerading as news and or reading te reo and Te Tiriti scripts out as written by Wille if they want funding.
And if that last one that all good Iron Curtain countries practiced does not creep out voters, nothing will!
Fuck Labour, if that’s the cure, it will kill the patient. ACT have expunged that dipstick. Move on!
How old are you that you expect better outcomes from a NACT govt.?
NOTHING will improve.
It’s a case of cutting your losses I’m afraid.
Thanks’ 007, I just fixed your comment by replacing “Labour” with “National” and now it makes your comment 100% correct.
I can think of at least two more the nation will have to take, post October
Yelling at your opponents calling then “RACIST” is what led to the Trump Presidency and “Brexit” in 2016. Given Labour’s inability to deliver anything of substance I’m not full of confidence they can run a winning campaign using a strategy that clearly doesn’t work.
“Those Ministries provide important input to legislation, they are the voice of Women, Pacifica, Māori, Youth and Ethnic Communities in our Democracy. They are the important evolutions you build so that Democracy isn’t just the the tyranny of the majority, that those in society with less power are ensured their interests are considered.”
Women are a majority of electors and almost certainly a majority of ‘actual voters’. Māori literally have entrenched seats in the house no one else can stand in, and are currently overrepresented by proportion of the house.
Not sure why either of these groups need special ministries to ensure their rights are protected from the broader democratic process, which both groups already have large control over.
Six years in, three of them with a majority government and all the left have is fear mongering about what Act might do…
Truly pathetic.
See Jase below. It’s not fear, it’s the truth but you knew that being hard right.
Also note the criticism that there is duplication of work with these demographic ministries which I can personally vouch for. As an economic consultant based in Wellington we did a piece of work last year for Te Puni Kōkiri looking at the health workforce and methods to boost Maori participation in this sector.
This year, I am doing a piece of work for Te Whatu Ora, looking at ways to boost Maori participation in the health workforce.
Taxes paid twice for the same impact…
End division by race? That is such a stupid slogan I feel obligated to reply with similar: ‘Cancel the Olympics’.