Monday, September 28, 2026

John Key asks National voters not to split their vote at campaign launch

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Former Prime Minister Sir John Key asked National supporters at the party’s campaign launch not to give their party vote to a minor party.

Sir John said some of National’s “most talented ministers would be replaced by someone you have never heard of”. However, commentators argued that an electorate vote for National and a party vote for NZ First or ACT was the only way to block the left-leaning parties.

One pointed out that National would need another 6–7% of the party vote in four weeks to govern without the split, noting National “would rather lose the election” than share power with a stronger NZ First and ACT.

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5 COMMENTS

  1. As soon as operative DONKEY asks for something on behalf of NZ – (not Goldman Sachs/MOSS) his original or usual employer. That confirms in my mind to stay well clear of the Blue ZOG & the Red ZOG. The third parties are the only ones who have a shred of loyalty to their own county. GO HOME JOHN.
    We could turn all of these goat herders back to where they came from if we all stood together on a single issue. America can bleat as much as it likes about “FREEDOM” but if they won’t kick AIPAC out for Gaza- they deserve everything that is coming to them as they were never free.

  2. Get stuffed John, you’re the reason I stopped voting National. You and Steven Joyce with your study for residency, fuelled mass immigration amd allowed the housing market to go absolutely mental so that our kids struggle to get on the property ladder. I’ll vote for our local National candidate so as not to give any power to the left or split conservative candidate vote but I will NEVER give National the party vote EVER again. Oh and I’d rather have someone I had never heard of with integrity than some career politicians who have sold their soul to the UN, the WHO and the Climate SCAM.

    Stop impoverishing us with your bat Sh1t crazy nonsense. End the climate grift, end the Maori grift, end the lazy bludger grift, end the public service grift, the local government grift and put some morals back into this country. We the people, the workers, the productive ones – were tapped OUT.

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