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Following the money: Who is funding New Zealand politics?

NZ political donations

As the general election draws closer, the picture of who is backing political parties is becoming clearer.

Donation disclosures over $20,000, which must be made within 20 days of a donation, show ACT has received the biggest donations to date sitting at $1.529 million, with Queenstown tech entrepreneur

Brian Cartmell spreading half a million dollars across National, ACT, NZ First and TOP. Les Mills founder Phillip Mills gave $250,000 to Labour, the Greens and TOP.



Commercial fishing pioneer Sir Peter Vela put $150,000 towards NZ First, while Zuru toy magnate Nick Mowbray gave $200,000 to ACT. GMP Environmental, with petroleum interests, features as one of ACT’s significant corporate donors giving $300,000. Read more at RNZ and Electoral Commission.

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23 COMMENTS

  1. Look who is funding the crime syndicate that is the New Zealand Company’s church parliaments own political parties, who are just subsidiaries of the New Zealand Company. Don’t forget to give them your consent via the voting booth.

    • Nz Loyal is run by unsuccessful ex ACT wannabees.

      We need a fresh new party comprising honest academics and business people determined to run NZ with transparent business standards / disciplines to achieve social goals. Like the scandanavians do.

      Step 1. Implement the swiss referenda system

      Step 2. Covid inquiry 3. Why did Bill gates give jacinda ardern $40m?

      Step 3. Forensic audit of all government spending over the last 9 years. Which politicians got our money?

      Step 4. Lock up: Ardern, Little, Robertson, Bloomfield, Hipkins, Luxon, Watts, Simpson, Seymour, van Velden, Peters, Jones, and Willis.

      Bishop and Brown can go to jail as well because even if they’re not involved in Watts and Willis’ tax money laundering schemes; they’re both clever enough to know what is going on and haven’t stopped the schemes.

      Disclaimer: My plan assumes there are honest NZ academics and business people. That assumption is optimistic.

  2. Now there is NO DOUBT as to the Globalist /Zionist influences within and inside the ACT Party’s constituency!
    The National Party is no better, and The Opportunities Party (formed by cat-hating Gareth Morgan…) has suddenly become a media darling, with the Green Party being lauded for their proposals to tax and take everything including inheritances gained by those struggling economically whilst dealing with personal loss of a relative!

  3. This needs to be outright “banned”. They all start with a state based fee to undertake electioneering and if they want more,pay for it themselves.

  4. Every partie in parliament now is a puppet for the NWO vote a new partie in or put up with the same old crap that we have been getting for years,

  5. However, the financial interests funding New Zealand are international banking and investment corporations. They finance the ‘nice-to-have’ election promises that voters demand from every political party. Few realize that these perks come at a price that must eventually be paid.
    Government sold your children for the debt they buy your votes with.
    This debt burden (= hidden tax) becomes unsustainable as compounding interest mounts. This is why New Zealand is now effectively for sale. Through foreclosures and bankruptcies, the nation is being transferred to the highest corporate bidders, mega-landowners, new foreign citizens, waves of immigrant labor, and an expanding class of welfare beneficiaries.

  6. These are just election campaign contributions, small fry.

    If you want to know who is REALLY funding politics, take a look at what happens once all these duplicitous weasels actually get into office. The tenders awarded, the contracts signed, the lucrative deals laundered through friends, family members and charities/NGO’s.

    Some criminals wear balaclavas, some wear nice suits.

  7. There’s a nasty waspnest brewing up another venomous swarm, many vile disgusting little grubs stacked on the interior surfaces currently quivering and vibrating in eagerness to hatch out in November as a new, even MORE toxic swarm.. The current established creepy swarm of head-twitching parasitic wasps inside frantically pushing their slithering proboscises of political slime deep into the slippery darting throats of the seething new grubs… Quick! Before it’s all too late -get a 44 gallon drum of fkn flyspray hosed into there now!

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