The National Party is obviously the putative torch carrier for conservatism, but are they really? Haven’t they become a weak-kneed party with the thinnest of veneers of conservatism?
Recent media appearances by Christopher Luxon show him to be in lock-step with Labour on key policies. In fact, he was at pains to point out to viewers earlier in the week that he was 100% committed to the Government’s goals for climate change. Those were not the words of a conservative; it was the simpering mewling of socialist talking points. Christopher Luxon could happily co-exist inside the Labour Party and has even stated he once thought of joining them. So far his leadership has shown that his mantra for the election will be ‘Just like Labour, but less sh*t’.
His stance during the Parliament protests, and indeed that of his whole party, was to quiver behind the skirts of Jacinda Ardern and Trevor Mallard. They refused to listen to the protestors and shook like dogs crapping razor blades when anyone mentioned that perhaps they might like to engage. Instead, they joined with the Government and hurled abuse at protestors. They were abject cowards in the face of people whose livelihoods had been destroyed by policies and actions that National voted with the Government for every single step of the way.
Did they stand up for freedom of speech? Nope. How about the provisions in the Bill of Rights that allows people to refuse medical treatment? Nope, silent as a graveyard at midnight. When our rights were being abused by a tyrannical Labour Government, National was either cheering them on or suggesting more efficient ways to deprive us of our rights.
It seems there are no conservative heroes in the National Party anymore. They want us to vote for them on the premise that they aren’t the Red Team. That’s not a compelling argument.
This brings me to the Act Party and David Seymour. Again there was a complete abrogation of defending our rights by David Seymour, who toured the country telling everyone he was the free speech champion, yet when the rubber hit the road, he too was seen quivering behind the Ardern regime.
Act’s mantra for the past three years has been to claim, in essence, that they’d have been more efficient fascists than Ardern’s jack-booted Government. There are no conservative heroes in the Act Party, and their classical liberal credentials were sacrificed on the altar of the Covid response.
Where are our conservative heroes? Let’s face it, there are none. Certainly not in those parties that claim to be ‘right wing’. Any fair assessment of where National and Act sit on the political spectrum is that National is now a left-wing party, and Act a centre-left party. They are nowhere near where functional idiots like Martyn Bradbury and other drongos in the media say they are: the hard right. They have a soft, pink belly that they are going to insist we all give a tummy rub to during the election campaign.
Just remember that the people who closed your business, destroyed your career, and wrecked your finances are the very same people who are now out there begging for your votes.
Our entire country has been emasculated, businesses cave to bullies on social media, anyone who stands strong is attacked, maligned, denigrated and abused. New Zealand used to have a reputation as a tough nation with a can do attitude. We used to celebrate rugby players continuing on playing with a torn scrotum, or a gouged eye. We all celebrated in the very first Rugby World Cup final when one of the players laid out a French player who was causing problems at the line out.
Now, we celebrate no hopers who played three tests a decade ago coming out as a shirt-lifter, and equally useless players wearing rainbow boots. It’s pathetic.
Conservatism has been smothered by weak, pathetic streaks of mobile misery, caterwauling about how offended they all are. No one cares, but we lack some strong conservatives to tell these whining ninnies loudly that no one cares and that they should all shut up.
Look at the recent Auckland floods. People literally sat there watching the water rise and are angry at politicians for not telling them what to do. How weak, pathetic and disabling is that? Three years of Ardern’s nanny state has disabled the can-do attitude of Kiwis.
Where are our conservative heroes? Missing in action is where. Where is our Ronald Reagan or Margaret Thatcher?
We need conservative heroes to start stamping their feet, pounding the lecterns and shouting ‘Hell No!’ at every ludicrous and stupid suggestion that the soft-bellied liberals keep on suggesting.
Hell No! to the climate scam.
Hell No! to Three Waters.
Hell No! to the abrogation of our Bill of Rights.
Hell No! to the book burners, boycotters, banners and bed wetters.
Hell No! to those seeking to destroy kids with chemicals and surgery.
Hell No! to racist and divisive policies, that prefer one race over all others.
Hell No! to the UN and WEF and any other globalist cause.
Hell No! to big government.
Where are our conservative heroes? Your voters await you.
Cam Slater is a New Zealand-based blogger, best known for his role in Dirty Politics and publishing the Whale Oil Beef Hooked blog, which operated from 2005 until it closed in 2019. This article was first published HERE
Recent media appearances by Christopher Luxon show him to be in lock-step with Labour on key policies. In fact, he was at pains to point out to viewers earlier in the week that he was 100% committed to the Government’s goals for climate change. Those were not the words of a conservative; it was the simpering mewling of socialist talking points. Christopher Luxon could happily co-exist inside the Labour Party and has even stated he once thought of joining them. So far his leadership has shown that his mantra for the election will be ‘Just like Labour, but less sh*t’.
His stance during the Parliament protests, and indeed that of his whole party, was to quiver behind the skirts of Jacinda Ardern and Trevor Mallard. They refused to listen to the protestors and shook like dogs crapping razor blades when anyone mentioned that perhaps they might like to engage. Instead, they joined with the Government and hurled abuse at protestors. They were abject cowards in the face of people whose livelihoods had been destroyed by policies and actions that National voted with the Government for every single step of the way.
Did they stand up for freedom of speech? Nope. How about the provisions in the Bill of Rights that allows people to refuse medical treatment? Nope, silent as a graveyard at midnight. When our rights were being abused by a tyrannical Labour Government, National was either cheering them on or suggesting more efficient ways to deprive us of our rights.
It seems there are no conservative heroes in the National Party anymore. They want us to vote for them on the premise that they aren’t the Red Team. That’s not a compelling argument.
This brings me to the Act Party and David Seymour. Again there was a complete abrogation of defending our rights by David Seymour, who toured the country telling everyone he was the free speech champion, yet when the rubber hit the road, he too was seen quivering behind the Ardern regime.
Act’s mantra for the past three years has been to claim, in essence, that they’d have been more efficient fascists than Ardern’s jack-booted Government. There are no conservative heroes in the Act Party, and their classical liberal credentials were sacrificed on the altar of the Covid response.
Where are our conservative heroes? Let’s face it, there are none. Certainly not in those parties that claim to be ‘right wing’. Any fair assessment of where National and Act sit on the political spectrum is that National is now a left-wing party, and Act a centre-left party. They are nowhere near where functional idiots like Martyn Bradbury and other drongos in the media say they are: the hard right. They have a soft, pink belly that they are going to insist we all give a tummy rub to during the election campaign.
Just remember that the people who closed your business, destroyed your career, and wrecked your finances are the very same people who are now out there begging for your votes.
Our entire country has been emasculated, businesses cave to bullies on social media, anyone who stands strong is attacked, maligned, denigrated and abused. New Zealand used to have a reputation as a tough nation with a can do attitude. We used to celebrate rugby players continuing on playing with a torn scrotum, or a gouged eye. We all celebrated in the very first Rugby World Cup final when one of the players laid out a French player who was causing problems at the line out.
Now, we celebrate no hopers who played three tests a decade ago coming out as a shirt-lifter, and equally useless players wearing rainbow boots. It’s pathetic.
Conservatism has been smothered by weak, pathetic streaks of mobile misery, caterwauling about how offended they all are. No one cares, but we lack some strong conservatives to tell these whining ninnies loudly that no one cares and that they should all shut up.
Look at the recent Auckland floods. People literally sat there watching the water rise and are angry at politicians for not telling them what to do. How weak, pathetic and disabling is that? Three years of Ardern’s nanny state has disabled the can-do attitude of Kiwis.
Where are our conservative heroes? Missing in action is where. Where is our Ronald Reagan or Margaret Thatcher?
We need conservative heroes to start stamping their feet, pounding the lecterns and shouting ‘Hell No!’ at every ludicrous and stupid suggestion that the soft-bellied liberals keep on suggesting.
Hell No! to the climate scam.
Hell No! to Three Waters.
Hell No! to the abrogation of our Bill of Rights.
Hell No! to the book burners, boycotters, banners and bed wetters.
Hell No! to those seeking to destroy kids with chemicals and surgery.
Hell No! to racist and divisive policies, that prefer one race over all others.
Hell No! to the UN and WEF and any other globalist cause.
Hell No! to big government.
Where are our conservative heroes? Your voters await you.
Cam Slater is a New Zealand-based blogger, best known for his role in Dirty Politics and publishing the Whale Oil Beef Hooked blog, which operated from 2005 until it closed in 2019. This article was first published HERE
11 comments:
Straw persons.
In today's woke world there are no true conservatives in the same mould as Thatcher or Reagan.
That free market, stand on your own two feet, equal opportunity but not equal outcome approach is viewed by nearly all of Western media as evil and corrupt. And that is what the public get fed a carefully controlled diet of 24:7.
So-called Conservative parties have lurched to the Left to give themselves a chance of being elected by a public that is largely soft, woke and used to being looked after by the State.
It's all progressive socialism with its wellbeing, identity and minority politics...and raging inflation, tanking economies and threats against freedom of opinion.
Which would you rather have?
Our country is full of flat whites, spineless jelly kneed and gutless, like flounders, some are yellow bellied the others are white bellied, they would rather be walked over like cobble stones instead of standing up like real New Zealanders, shine a light on them and the dare not move hoping not to be seen, and when the release they have been spotted, they will scurry away as fast as possible to take shelter with all the other flat whites.
Freedom requires courage and willingness to take responsibility, living under socialist governments requires only strong stomach.
Yes I will agree about the National Party, but not at all about David Seymour. He is my hero and I'm going to vote for him - and I'm a long-time Michael Joseph Savage-type socialist, who abhors Roger Douglas(and voted for this present crooked administration.) David Seymour is admirably clear about co-governance, in a calm rational manner which hardly anyone else in this quivering, craven, race-conscious country can manage to do. He has a pretty sensible line-up behind him too.
We have a problem with the term 'conservative' here. A conservative is someone who upholds a given established political/moral order or wishes to return to one that has been abandoned. When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the BBC reporters started referring to the Communists as 'conservatives', and correctly so by this definition.
In Amurrica the term 'conservative' is associated with advocating a role for Christianity in government. To the Amurrican conservative, 'secular' is a dirty word.
Of course we have problems with the term 'socialist' as well which is increasingly applied by Amurricanised right-wingers to governments that recognise the duty of care to their citizens.
Given the semantic issues, articles such as this one are at best riddled with ambiguities.
For most modern politicians the income is vital. So the threat of cancellation prevents any bold action. Apart from the economic connotations, there is now a huge personal risk from deranged nutters keen to apply "imagining decolonisation" and behave with violence as they did prior 1840.
It’s clear that this column is written by someone who is unfamiliar with provincial New Zealand where the next election will be won or lost.
Cam is right to point out the “luke warm” response to modern issues from those closeted in the beltway but if he’s looking for heroes, he should visit the battlefronts in the rural electorates.
There he will find his heroes who, like the brave Ukrainians manning their parapets, are fighting their own war and doing rather well
in convincing the electorates that changed sides last time that they made a huge mistake.
I say that because it is in the provincial heartland where the damage caused by this administration is so evident.
It is here where communities are divided by policies based on the promotion of racial superiority and are suffering the consequences.
But the locals are fighting back and l am confident that the necessary change will come as a result of the efforts being made by those who are committed to equal opportunity for all.
I am also hopeful that the National Party leadership will itself become more pro active in support of our response. We need commitments from them that they will repeal legislation that is the cause of the current mistrust - not just promises to look at it when they become government.
There are some things that are non negotiable. Christopher Luxon in particular needs to show he will execute our plan, not his own if we are to have any hope of retaking the treasury benches.
I tremble to think what Luxon will utter at Waitangi and effectively lock the party into a spineless approach as practised by Key. He should limit himself to proclaiming his objective as community unity. amiable race relations and efficent operation nationally in the long term
Ask yourself Cam, what were these heroes of yours conserving? They were attempting to preserve what was left of Christendom after two world wars. When society abandoned the Christian Faith the process of societal decay began and this is the end product of liberalism; atheism and very soon Communism. Those in the apparent high positions within most protestant sects, including the one pretending to be the Catholic Church have gone completely woke and most of the people have followed them. The forces of organised naturalism have all but won and prepared the world for the coming of their messiah. Start praying.
No doubt Seymour regrets his decision not to engage with the Wellington protestors, but for his forthright championing of race-free democracy, we should allow him that error of judgment. Even Churchill had his Dardenelles.
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