National: Leader Christopher Luxon has pledged more affordable housing for older New Zealanders, reserving at least 20% of the Housing Flexible Fund for seniors and making granny flats and tiny homes easier to build. Read more at RNZ.
Labour: Labour candidate Kerrin Leoni has been filmed encouraging Mongrel Mob members to enrol and vote. Read more at NZ Herald and RNZ.
NZ First: Leader Winston Peters has criticised the retirement village reforms agreed by the coalition, including a nine-month cap on repayments to former residents. He has also backed agriculture as a standalone Year 11 subject for students. Read more at NZ Herald and The Country.
Greens: Co-leader Chloe Swarbrick deflected questions about her party’s gang pad visit, saying she wanted to focus on the cost of living. Read more at Newstalk ZB.
ACT: Leader David Seymour says New Zealand must choose between “equal rights” and a “racial partnership”, reiterating his call for “one law for all”. ACT also wants charter school enrolments to reach 10,000 by 2029. Read more at Seymour on X and RNZ.
Opportunity: Founder Gareth Morgan welcomed the party’s election surge but criticised its proposed land tax as going further than his original policy. Read more at 1 News.
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Going by the way the MSM seems to have turned on the left wing partiesof late, I’m predicting basically a second term government, maybe with a little TOP thrown in there just to introduce some of those controversial changes the uniparty secretly wanted all along.
Not left or right in the mainstream. Just globalists. If the teal support for the India FTA, wasn’t enough to convince everyone of that, by now, glaringly obvious fact.
Clown show. Juts a clown show. Not voting for ANY OF YOU incompetents. More than had enough, more than learned my lesson. Any risk in terms of voting that sees you all out of office sooner or later, is worth taking at this point.
Lie with dogs get fleas – chippy is finding this out