New Zealand First leader Winston Peters delivered a fiery State of the Nation speech in Christchurch, branding his party as a “true nationalist party” and declaring a “war on woke.”
Declaring a need to “Make New Zealand First Again,” Peters criticised “leftist social engineering” and questioned the country’s commitments to the Paris Climate Agreement, citing the disproportionate burden on New Zealand compared to major CO₂ emitters like China and the US.
The speech faced multiple interruptions from protesters, whom Peters labelled as “fascists” and accused of wasting time.
Peters also ruled out working with Labour leader Chris Hipkins, who dismissed Peters’ rhetoric as divisive and Trump-like, emphasising Labour’s focus on jobs, health, and housing.
The speech focused on several key themes beyond his declaration of a “war on woke.” He heavily criticised the previous Labour government for misleading the public about the state of the economy before the 2023 election, accusing them of making false claims about economic growth and stability. Peters blamed Labour for the worst economic downturn in over 30 years and criticised the mainstream media for failing to hold them accountable. He argued that the Labour Party has abandoned traditional working-class values, focusing instead on ideological sound bites and divisive policies, while New Zealand First remains focused on practical economic policies and rebuilding the working-class base.
In regards to New Zealand’s commitments to the Paris Climate Agreement he questioned the economic burden it placed on farmers and taxpayers while larger CO₂ emitters like China, the USA, Russia, and India remain largely unaffected. He emphasised the need for New Zealand to strategically position itself on the global stage, advocating for partnerships and economic growth rather than “reactive policies”. He also criticised Labour’s decision to remove local councils’ right to decide on water fluoridation, framing it as an attack on democracy and advocating for local referendums.
Throughout the speech, Peters positioned New Zealand First as a defender of democracy and economic nationalism, promoting policies that ensure wealth generated in New Zealand stays within the country. He also condemned the mainstream media and Labour for focusing on divisive identity politics rather than practical solutions.
Peters highlighted New Zealand First’s achievements with the Provincial Growth Fund and called for continued investment in regional infrastructure to support economic recovery and job creation.
Apartheid not a thing then?
Huh?
Labour made jobs, health and housing all worse, and will do so again.
Full of woke crap
All the mainstream party’s are. Cheeks of the same arse.
Winston Peters- not an import, the only minister to emerge from the beehive to talk to the covid protesters and quite possibly, still human!
Yep. 100%.
The rest of them are completely feeble/pathetic/cowardly/compromised and or/corrupt useless b*stards obviously.
Onwards and upwards.
Though some of what he said is right, calling protestors fascists is not.
As someone who won some people over by walking amongst them at the freedom protests, he should see the hypocrisy.
As foreign minister he is sitting on the fence whilst the US backs Israel in its genocide and likely soon to be ethnic cleansing of Gaza.
It is not good enough. We should have abandoned them as allies long ago
Good comment.
And lawyers always (well most of them because of decades of sucking on the ‘justice’ system) are “sitting on the fence”.
Winston has a problem right now – how does he avoid being punished by the voter at the next election?
He needs to solve this problem by increasing his vote for the first time ever, after being in government.
He’s never managed this before and has always failed at the next election (1999, 2008 and 2020) after previously being in government three times (1996, 2005 and 2017).
Useful for me to analyse trends as follows. The NZ First party votes at previous MMP elections (and NZ First entry into govt at those elections within brackets) were:
1996 13.35% – into govt as coalition partner with National (returns National to power)
1999 4.26% – in opposition with electorate seats only – govt changed from Nats to Labour
2002 10.38% – increased vote but not wanted in govt – remains in opposition
2005 5.72% – supports Labour govt on confidence+supply (returns Labour to power)
2008 4.07% – out of parliament – govt changed from Labour to Nats
2011 6.59% – increased vote but not wanted in govt – remains in opposition
2014 8.66% – increased vote but not wanted in govt – remains in opposition
2017 7.2% – enters govt but for the 1st time ever – does not return existing govt to power and does not support biggest party (National) but instead supports a change in govt and coalesces with Labour
2020 2.6% – out of parliament – but govt did not change as before when Winston loses – instead the pandemic election ensured the return of a govt with the 1st ever majority under MMP
2023 6.08% – enters govt and for the 2nd time ever – does not return existing govt to power. Tries to exploit the freedom vote after visiting our 2022 occupation of parliament grounds.
The pattern is clear – Winston always got punished by the voters at every election after he was in govt (1999, 2008 and 2020).
Winston has previously said that nobody gets to lie to him twice – so he again won’t back a Hipkins-led Labour party in 2026. Which means his only option is to support National in 2026. But how does he solve his problem of getting punished by the voters. When he previously returned a govt to power (1996 and 2005), he got rewarded with punishment at the next election (1999 and 2008).
To avoid the voters’ punishment, his only option in 2026 is to wipe out Labour and pinch their votes. So he’s got to attack everything Labour stands for as hard as possible. Even harder than National or ACT ever would.
The only answer is confidence and supply……do that and NZF stands a chance…………..not that I give two hoots…….long since past voting for them……………..
Nice one Winston.
Downsizing the confused indoctrinated woke communist retards would be great.
You have been in power for quite some time Winston. You are the deputy PM. Just wondering if you have only just realised this nonsence? Nothing motivates a politician like an election coming.
Seems the stage 2 enquiry has not yet addressed the reason for the excess deaths either. The information is out there Winston, all you have to do is let it in. Look what happened to Labour when they didn’t.
Labour has given the largest opportunity for the centre right and right to step in, take power and keep it for 3 terms. Indeed the opportunity to finish off labour.
The Trump movement is powerful because he has allowed a genuine and proper health secretary free hand to dismantle their woke. The total destruction of thier woke education department too.
Trump has already announced “No more sharing half of the property of a rich man because of divorce. That scam is over.” Our own family court policy is preventing normal relationships from developing. Perhaps there was a time when women did not work, stayed at home raised kids , had little or no uni degrees and needed that. wealth to start again. That isn’t the case now.
Worried about the woke female vote? Need i remind the deputy prime minister each man has a mother and most have children, sisters , aunts who do not support wealth division after 3 summers. All well to do and educated women don’t support wealth division either.
Give relief to the hard working , tax paying wealth creators and let them safely allow partners in their homes without risk. You might even fix the need for most of the social housing and the support infrastructure like roads, plumbing, electricity generation and distribution too. Certainly the woke family court employees might even have to make a living rather than drain off the male and female taxpayers .
Times have changed Winston, please try and keep up.
I think he’s senile.
What is there not to comprehend how the cookie crumbles?
Is he still reading MSM?
Maybe it’s for the best. A whole load of fresh new individulas are needed. The wash-out will be legendary.
B-B-Baby you aint seen nothing yet.
It would be interesting to know what percentage of New Zealanders are actually indoctrinated ‘woke’ morons/idiots.
My guess is approximately 10% .
Perhaps this question should be added to the next census.
i.e Are you, or have you ever been an indoctrinated lefty woke retard/communist/cretin/moron?
WELL DONE, WINNIE!!!
Now, could you plese do two things here;
1. Repeal the Firearms Restrictions that the closet Communist Jabby imposed on legal, lawful and non-criminal firearms licencees & owners?
2. Could you please adopt the NZ Loyal Party Platform and blend it into the NZ First Party Platform?
https://nzloyal.com/policy/
Winnie is a political chameleon
Blending into the background
A survivor
Or so it would seem
Politicians can be likened to used car salesmen
They all have their angles
To tickle the ears and dull the senses
Populist party, very good at picking the sensitive things that have peoples attention but where’s the follow through?
And NZF is still in bed with globalist, woke party’s. Thanks for playing…..”yawn”……………..
I will vote for Winston again. Hipkins is a cockwomble.
Woke is an evil construct designed to break down our social fabric. It was pushed by globalist satanist that want to remove family values from society. They want to mutilate your kids. They want the kids to be indoctrinated and zombies to the woke cult. look at the university liberal women, these women get degrees in gender studies … Then get government jobs. Then they go against any people who are actually intelligent and demoralise them if the intelligent try to speak out.
All PAgan Pollies since WW2, all unit 3200, pushing thru the Babylonian Gibberish Great Reset, where’s W.O.B. Arden, in thE Stockade yet, No, they protect their own until the Masses wake up, oh, the Masses ARE Waking up.. FEYS Countries Sovereign Republics Incoming, as outlined in THE FIVE SERIES. Ie 3 of 5, not 7 oF 9, search 7 of 9 and you start to get it, search thE Sumerian Swindle since 3000BC, and you too, witll get it.. fyi https://ia802302.us.archive.org/1/items/banjo-billy/G_d%201%20-%20SumerianSwindle.pdf https://www.infonews.co.nz/news.cfm?id=17241
Who is funding these maxists ?
If you don’t like what Winstone says don’t go but no you maxists dont accept democracy.
How about declaring war on the billions of taxpayers dollars your giving to Māori over the years,successive governments have destroyed this country time for Labour and National to disappear forever.
WOKE = World Order Kaos Entropy