Late in August Chris Luxon updated National Party supporters. Excerpts from his newsletter are in italics.
You may have seen on the news this week that there was a protest at Parliament which, while far shorter and more orderly than the occupation earlier this year, had similarly ill-defined aims.
What would you know about Wellington protesters’ aims and grievances when you refused to meet with them?
How foolish to address grievances dating back to 1840 while ignoring current grievances arising from the Ardern Government’s behaviour over the last two years?
If you want to change the government at the next election, party vote National.
You ask me to vote National to keep Labour out. What a silly argument when National endorsed the Ardern Government’s destructive lockdowns and ineffective mandates. You have zero credibility.
Labour did an appalling job of handling the pandemic; just one of its many fails, but National have done no better.
Will you ignore the jobless because they still aren’t vaccinated?
Will you compensate the vaccine injured or the families of those who died because of vaccination? Will you follow the media who label vaccination injuries “long Covid” to bury the truth?
Will you seek out data, or simply support voluntary reporting of adverse reactions rather than making reporting mandatory?
Hospitals have dire staffing shortages but the National Party is silent about reinstating medical staff still out of work.
Mandates still remain in place for government departments (and Air NZ) despite the failure of the vaccine to stop Covid or keep people out of hospitals and morgues. Where is the pandemic of the unvaccinated?
National is more ambitious for our young people – we’ll back them and give them the help they need to make the most of their lives.
Fitzy and I went to school in Christchurch.
It should have occurred to you when mimicking Ardern’s incessant school visits (to capture the minds of the children before they learn to think for themselves) that you are firmly in her camp, playing follow the leader. Ardern targets primary schools; you target high school students.
This Government has a trail of failed promises but Ardern’s legacy of second-class citizenship surpasses them all. You are silent about human rights abuses; where were you?
You were proudly learning te reo, endorsing a Maori elite. Do you also support renaming government departments with te reo names that no one understands or pronounces properly because maybe only four per cent speak te reo fluently?
Are you aware of the large Maori contingent at the Freedom protests?
Did you talk with Brian Tamaki, a strong advocate for racial equality, or do you consider his concern for struggling New Zealanders is not genuine? It appears you bought into the media character assassination of anyone publicly opposed to the Ardern Government’s harsh dictates when you dismissed working with him.
A bit of much needed advice if you want to succeed: sack your PR advisors and research the facts for yourself instead of trusting NZ media spreading Ardern propaganda.