This is a big loss for ACT. I worked with Brooke on the End of Life bill when she was a staffer, and it was clear back then how talented she was. She worked with MPs from Greens, Labour, NZ First etc to get the bill through (as did David Seymour, whose bill it was). Her Holidays Act reform is a masterclass in good policy and politics.
I am sure she will do amazing things in her next career, and it will probably be one that will give her a better work life balance.
ACT hope to still retain Tamaki, but without Brooke standing it will be challenging. National’s Mahesh Muralidhar should go buy a lotto ticket as it is a very lucky week for him!
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders.
I am sure she will do amazing things in her next career, and it will probably be one that will give her a better work life balance.
ACT hope to still retain Tamaki, but without Brooke standing it will be challenging. National’s Mahesh Muralidhar should go buy a lotto ticket as it is a very lucky week for him!
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders.
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Major loss to ACT . As was Tanya Unkovich for NZF. Qualified and reasonable women are often attacked.
Her resignation reminds me of when, not long back, National had several "good" people resign all at about the same time. I hope this is not the harbinger of more ACT resignations. Her departure is a very sad loss for ACT, but good luck to her in her future choices. A big thank you Brooke for your outstanding contribution to New Zealand's well-being.
Fiscally conservative, socially woke woman who trumps apartheid rubbish, & gender rhetorical trickery by jumping on the pronoun train & denying women their sex-based human rights, including the right to discriminate against men. And don’t get me started on Covid.
But Brooke is very much an example of being the ‘company you keep’ as Act is a globalist party that has been captured by progressive ideology. They don’t even seem to pretend to be different to the others anymore, hence why Act is crashing & burning, & NZF is rising to the top.
This is what happens when you have no moral core & you try & please everybody - the periphery loses its way & you end up pleasing nobody.
The media & politicians like Ardern, Hipkins, Willis, Stanford, Luxon, Doocey, Brooke & Seymour try to convince us that down is up & up is down, but objective truths always remain exactly that - the truth.
Most NZers respect the TOW & our bi-cultural roots, but we also know separatism & democracy are mutually exclusive. And we also know feelings don’t change gametes, big govt means poor people, & you can’t tax your way to prosperity.
So good luck & good riddance to her. Let’s hope we get someone more like Douglas or Hyde as her replacement as NZers are keen to see real change.
spot on anonymous 0950.
Unless he actually believes his untenable diatribe, it must have been a herculean effort for Seymour kept a straight face during his recent blaming of Labour for NZ's continued dismal economic performance.
Meanwhile in 2.5 long years:
1. Brooke Van Velden hasn't managed to remove one expensive road cone from our streets,
2. Seymour hasn't managed to remove one employee from our bloated and useless public service,
3. Van Velden's covid inquiry ignored conclusive evidence of mass covid vaccine harm and barely mentioned the billions of financial irregularities associated with the covid spend.
3. Seymour hasn't thought to ask the GCSB, SFO, NZ Police, Auditor General and IRD to investigate the $30b COVID spend financial irregularities identified in the covid inquiry report
3. Seymour hasn't thought to ask the GCSB, SFO, NZ Police, Auditor General and IRD to investigate the $34m gift from Gates to Ardern.
4. Seymour hasn't thought to ask police to investigate the revelation the H Clark advised Ardern government mandated pfizer jabs into your teenage sons knowing your sons were at very low risk from covid and that the jabs carried an unacceptable risk of killing them, much greater than the risk they could die of covid!
So NZ voters can Give Chris a miss, NZ needs a new honest centre right party to vote for. Intellectuals, business people, voters, and disgruntled act and national members/candidates/mps/ministers need to:
get behind NZ Loyal and bolster their management depth and skill, erase their off message claims, tidy up and downsize their policies so they can be implemented, and ensure they only allow clever and honest candidates.
or if that is not possible.
start a new honest centre right party which will investigate and prosecute corrupt nz politicians and public servants (you'll also need to build extra prison capacity).
Otherwise you'll watch your children buying one way plane tickets, at least those NZ young adults who survive the current NZ political party corruption.
My, my - how the world loves to hate on intelligent women. Brooke is an immensely intelligent and capable woman. For her brilliant work on the Holidays Act alone she should be long remembered as a legend in NZ politics. She will shine wherever she chooses to go. Best of luck Brooke.
Who can blame her after 8 years of butting heads with the woke prats of not just Liebour but National in cabinet. It kind off reminds me of a meeting I was once in where the manager was spouting rubbish, I pushed back my seat and declared that it was a good job my wife had just won lotto. It stopped him in his tracks and we got on with sensible stuff. As we left the meeting he asked if my wife had really won lotto and I said "Yes, $100". Good luck Brooke, come back when the adults are properly in charge and not the Uni-party.
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