New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has intensified his party’s election campaign, attacking the Government’s newly signed free trade agreement with India while positioning New Zealand First as the only party willing to challenge what he described as globalist policies, mass immigration and “woke” social engineering.
Speaking in Cambridge on Sunday, Peters announced two new Waikato candidates and used the occasion to outline a series of policy priorities ahead of the election, including cost-of-living measures, opposition to the Paris Agreement, resistance to further genetic engineering reforms and criticism of Labour, the Greens and Te Pāti Māori.
A major focus of Peters’ speech was the India-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement. He argued the deal was heavily weighted in India’s favour, claiming New Zealand had granted immediate tariff reductions while receiving limited access for key exports such as dairy products.
Peters questioned provisions relating to the Paris Climate Agreement and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), saying they conflicted with existing coalition agreements. He also criticised commitments relating to investment and migration, describing the agreement as “more a Free Migration Deal than a Free Trade Deal”.
Peters said the agreement would allow thousands of work visa holders and international students into New Zealand while delivering only modest economic benefits, while projections showed the deal would increase New Zealand’s GDP by only a fraction over coming decades.
“The free trade deal is a monotony of mistakes and coverups,” he said.
The New Zealand First leader also renewed his party’s opposition to the Paris Agreement, arguing New Zealand should prioritise domestic environmental investment rather than spending money on international climate obligations. He said the party would campaign on withdrawing from the accord.
Peters signalled that New Zealand First would not support the current version of the Gene Technology Bill, saying safeguards and protections were insufficient and warning that liberalising genetic engineering could threaten New Zealand’s reputation as a GE-free producer.
He also defended the party’s proposed legislation defining the terms “man” and “woman” in law, describing it as a matter of protecting women’s rights and biological reality rather than targeting any community. Peters said New Zealand First would continue opposing what he called “woke” ideology in government agencies, schools and public institutions.
“We are fighting back the cancerous social engineering being pushed in society by a woke minority,” he said.
Concluding his speech, Peters said New Zealand First remained focused on representing ordinary working New Zealanders and promised to continue campaigning on cost-of-living issues, national sovereignty and what he described as common-sense policies.
Separate social media commentary accompanying the speech echoed concerns about the India trade agreement, claiming it would provide limited economic returns while increasing migration and reinforcing commitments linked to UNDRIP and the Paris Agreement.
🚩Winston Peters on the road : Cambridge voiced its displeasure with Luxon’s awful India FTD.
Winston Peters gave an excellent 10 minute speech on why he’s determined to stop the deal, that even prominent Act supporter KC Gary Judge describes as a “dangerous constitutional… pic.twitter.com/hZF3FeLNuD
— Holyhekatuiteka (@2ETEKA) June 14, 2026
The poacher playing gamekeeper…. again!
Exactly, well said!
WILL WINSTON & NZ FIRST PROPOSE A COALITION GOVERNMENT WITH THE NZ LOYAL PARTY, WHICH IS COALESCING THE SIMILAR MISSION & POLICY STATEMENTS?
…..MMMM….PROBABLY NOT…ALTHOUGH SUCH WOULD COMPLETELY REVERSE THE HORRIFIC PLANS AND TRENDS THAT THE GLOBAL ZIONIST HAVE FOR US ALL!
While the NZ Outdoors & Freedom Party are quite relevant, many of the policies that NZ Loyal would implement are missing in the NZ O&FP policies. Top dressing problems with quasi-Green Party policies won’t solve the growing threat and Zionist global policies that are being pushed on the world.
Please compare;
https://nzloyal.com/policy/ ( Comprehensive and detailed policies and the actions to implement the same…)
https://www.nzfirst.nz/policy (A generalised description but no detailed explanations on how these would be implemented…)
https://nzofp.co.nz/ (only 3 policies…with no action plan on stopping Global Zionism)
SO, THERE YOU HAVE IT! I’VE POSTED THESE LINKS SO YOU WON’T HAVE TO, and can make an informed and logical choice in November 2026 at the polling stations.
informed logical choice……..that woukd be only over a debate. Thanks.
Under two million ordinary working class people turned this country from scrub into a wealthy first world country within sixty years.
Corrupt politicians and bureaucrats have turned it into a third world country in half that time.
We do not need unlimited immigration to make this little country worth living in again. We just need honest people working for us, not for the internationalists.
The corrupt have shown us their intentions in the years 2020-2022 and anyone who thinks that obeying the law, working hard, and keeping their head down will protect them is living in fantasy land.
Winston Peters has named the Indian Free Trade Agreement as a problem. And it is. Look to the UK to see the results of unlimited third world immigration. Don’t think it won’t happen here. Luxon has shown his globalist affiliations. Hipkins is globalist wannabe. Either of those two parties will give us more of the same. Voting for the Greens or the Maori Party is a vote to suicide New Zealand.
If NZ First isn’t running the country in 2026 we are done for.
Winnie the poo-distributing charlatan opportun0st since decades…long enough that oldie senility forgets.
Ive been around for while to note but not forget:
Peters, the failed lawyer, calling the new NZ-India trade deal a “disgraceful sellout” is classic Winnie. We are in an election year, so the NZ First leader has dusted off his favorite playbook: bash globalism, rail against immigration, and attack “woke social engineering” to fire up his gullible base. How often do u people need to be fooled????
look at his actual career. he’s the Foreign Minister. FCS! He literally spent the last two years flying to India to smooth over diplomatic relations. Winnie laid the groundwork for this entire relationship. Acting shocked and outraged that Trade Minishyster Todd McClay actually closed the deal is pretty rich when his own ministry helped build the bridge to get there.
It’s the same story with his anti-globalist stance. Peters loves to slam National AND/OR Labour for selling out Kiwi sovereignty, but he has spent decades acting as the ultimate kingmaker to put those exact parties into power.
And he doesn’t just put them there; he accepts high-ranking cabinet jobs from them. WHAT DO U NOT COMPREHEND???
When he was Deputy Prime Minister in 2018, his government signed and ratified the CPTPP, one of the biggest globalist trade pacts on earth! !!
Then there’s the immigration BS ruse. He’s warning NOW that the India FTA’s visa clauses are going to open the floodgates to mass migration. But remember the 2017 to 2020 Labour-NZ First coalition, or are u winnie supporters too ‘Alzheimers’ to remember?? Peters promised to slash net migration to 15,000 a year. Instead, under HIS watch, it skyrocketed to an all-time record of over 90,000, u gullibl fools!
So, why is he doing this now? Pay attention nuckleheads: >>>Because it’s COMPLETELY RISK FREE, …DOH! Chris Shitkins and Labour already confirmed THAT THEJ WILL VOTE WITH NATIONAL globalists to pass the India FTA. Peters knows his opposition won’t actually sink the deal. He gets to sit comfortably inside the Government, enjoy the perks of being power, and simultaneously pretend he’s the lone rebel fighting the establishment.
It’s not a stand on principle.
it’s justcunning electioneering, pulling again and again and again and again and again the wool over dumb livestock voting cattle. Baaaaah
If only NZF had been this diligent during its last three years in office, alongside the culprits who caused these problems.
They stopped hate speech laws (UK horrors), added safety of women to womens sports, removed some treaty clauses. I say the first one is a huge win.
Mate Goldsmith is looking into hate speech laws as we speak. They will of course point fingers and blame each other but they will still pass.
There is a great deal of displeasure with this so called free trade agreement, mainly over its retarded, one sided, economic structure agreeing to $20billion heading north north west. The donation of hard earned fruit breeds completes the picture. It is apparent that mass immigration causes strife and cultural clashes, reading between the lines it is perhaps not the most well adjusted who could be making the trip. A big consideration is the impact on integrated citizens of Indian origin who have made a stable and positive contribution to NZ, now being lumped in with new arrivals who have a totally different agenda, which seems unfair.
Winnie the poo-distributing charlatan opportun0st since decades…long enough that oldie senility forgets.
Ive been around for while to note but not forget:
Peters, the failed lawyer, calling the new NZ-India trade deal a “disgraceful sellout” is classic Winnie. We are in an election year, so the NZ First leader has dusted off his favorite playbook: bash globalism, rail against immigration, and attack “woke social engineering” to fire up his gullible base. How often do u people need to be fooled????
look at his actual career. he’s the Foreign Minister. FCS! He literally spent the last two years flying to India to smooth over diplomatic relations. Winnie laid the groundwork for this entire relationship. Acting shocked and outraged that Trade Minishyster Todd McClay actually closed the deal is pretty rich when his own ministry helped build the bridge to get there.
It’s the same story with his anti-globalist stance. Peters loves to slam National AND/OR Labour for selling out Kiwi sovereignty, but he has spent decades acting as the ultimate kingmaker to put those exact parties into power.
And he doesn’t just put them there; he accepts high-ranking cabinet jobs from them. WHAT DO U NOT COMPREHEND???
When he was Deputy Prime Minister in 2018, his government signed and ratified the CPTPP, one of the biggest globalist trade pacts on earth! !!
Then there’s the immigration BS ruse. He’s warning NOW that the India FTA’s visa clauses are going to open the floodgates to mass migration. But remember the 2017 to 2020 Labour-NZ First coalition, or are u winnie supporters too ‘Alzheimers’ to remember?? Peters promised to slash net migration to 15,000 a year. Instead, under HIS watch, it skyrocketed to an all-time record of over 90,000, u gullibl fools!
So, why is he doing this now? Pay attention nuckleheads: >>>Because it’s COMPLETELY RISK FREE, …DOH! Chris Shitkins and Labour already confirmed THAT THEJ WILL VOTE WITH NATIONAL globalists to pass the India FTA. Peters knows his opposition won’t actually sink the deal. He gets to sit comfortably inside the Government, enjoy the perks of being power, and simultaneously pretend he’s the lone rebel fighting the establishment.
It’s not a stand on principle.
it’s justcunning electioneering, pulling again and again and again and again and again the wool over dumb livestock voting cattle. Baaaaah
I will be voting for them.
wow, censorship now?
sorry, -edit-, a glitch, not so.