Introduction
Good afternoon and thank you all for taking time out of your busy lives to be here today.
New Zealand First started our campaign for the 2026 election the day after the 2023 election.
We knew that winning in 2023 was just the first stepping stone for not only our party, but our country, in turning the fortunes and direction of New Zealand around.
We have worked hard over the past three years to fight for the changes we promised, and that our country needed, to keep the left out, build a new foundation for the future, and prepare for 2026.
It is vital that we as a country realise that if we don’t win in 2026 the opportunity will be lost to make the real changes we need in this country, and the values of our enemies will destroy the chance we have to make this country great again.
This year New Zealand First began our election meetings in March, first with a packed hall in Tauranga with over 1000 people attending, and we have been travelling around the country filing halls every week and will be continuing to do so through until the election.
Public meetings are the lifeblood and essence of democracy. It is where you go and connect, talk, and listen to the people.
It is where people come to hear what our party stands for and what our vision and plans are for the future that affects them.
It is to the detriment of democracy that other parties just are not holding any real public meetings.
The so-called ‘public meetings’ they sporadically have are either organised and ticketed events attached to other organisations, or just organic small halls layered with party members.
New Zealand First is the only party that not only has open door public meetings, but we are getting the numbers packing the halls like no other party can.
That is simply because New Zealand First is resonating with ordinary, hard-working kiwis, who want a voice in parliament that represents them.
They are sick of the status quo, sick of the swing between Pepsi and Coke, and sick of politicians who can’t call a spade a spade.
New Zealand First is resonating because we are party that represents nationalism, patriotism, social conservatism, and most of all just plain common sense.
No other party can claim that, because those values that seemed so foundational in leadership not so long ago, are now viewed as some sort of disease to the other parties.
New Zealand First is nationalist, patriotic, and conservative – words which have now become viewed upon as being some sort of evil, and other politicians avoid like the plague.
We stand proud to not only stand for those values, but to fight for them. And to fight on your behalf to create a country that is proud of who we are in the world, proud of our country and what we stand for, proud our history and our traditional kiwi values.
There is only one party that does that and you are looking at it.
All of the other parties are either self-confessed globalists, socialists, Marxists, separatists – or all of the above.
The problem for all of those other parties is that there is a sea-change in politics that is happening around the world – and it is happening here in New Zealand.
The last time we stood here in Warkworth, just four years ago, New Zealand First was out of parliament, ignored, marginalised by the media, and polling at 1%. Well, we aren’t any more.
Here we are today and those same people in the media are not ignoring us any longer. They aren’t asking if we will get back in, they are all asking how many more seats we will have in November, and just how strong we will be in the next government.
We have the policy, the team, and the party machine to turn this election on its head.
And they are all deathly afraid. Just look at the article today from our best mate ‘News of the World’ fame Andrea Vance.
Vance has written another pathetic butthurt ‘opinion piece’ attacking New Zealand First.
No one cares what Vance thinks. She might think they do in her little Wellington Bluesky bubble full of lanyard-wearing woke lefty losers, but there’s a reason New Zealand First support is growing out in the real world.
We are travelling around the country every week packing the halls with ordinary kiwis. We run out of seats and people are flowing out the door – we’re winning and her and her mates can’t stand it.
We are the enemy of what she stands for and the enemy of the woke mind virus that has infected so much of our mainstream media that they can’t even figure out why no one trusts their industry anymore.
Her loser ‘News of the World’ opinions do nothing but confirm we are directly over the target.
It’s Vance, and people like her, that is the reason we are doing so well and why we will win in November – the poetic part is that she doesn’t even know it.
This sort of mudslinging behaviour from the media will continue until the election – it is a well-worn path for them and for us during elections.
