Inevitably, no matter how great the support for a likely National/Act coalition there will be a number of troughers, lazy wets, reactionary lunatics and professionally outraged social justice idiots earning at least $163,000 a year. Hopefully, this list will at the very least prepare you for some inevitabilities or motivate you to minimise the carnage by voting strategically.

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Stephen Berry is a former Act candidate and Auckland Mayoral candidate. The libertarian political commentator retired as a politician in July 2020 and now hosts the Mr Berry Mr Berry Show on Youtube.