SLIPPING INTO THE REALMS OF FANTASY

The Curmudgeon reported that 120,000 New Zealand voters gave their votes to the fringe parties in the 2023 elections - the highest number ever given to conspiracy theorists, anti-vaxers, religious nutters, anarchists, dope smokers and generally disconnected and naive voices in the wilderness.

One such person and the party she's created ticks the boxes for almost all of those descriptions and then some of her own.

I'm talking here of Liz Gunn who heads up New Zealand Loyal party which, flabbergastingly (is there such a word?) received 26,140 votes!

Bugger me!

I know that there are some idiots in our community but 26,000 of them voting for this demented dingbat?

Another person who is flabbergasted is Liz Gunn herself - not because she received as many as 26,000 votes but because she didn't receive the two million that she was hoping for:

“People are deriding me for saying two million [would support the party], wouldn’t it be funny if just quietly well over a million have actually voted for us. Let’s see what they do with the numbers.”

          Liz Gunn in NZ Herald

In the words of Captain Mainwaring from Dad's Army - "I think that you're slipping into the realms of fantasy there ...". Even the major two parties didn't get two million votes (National 880,000 and Labour 607,000).

I live in Northland and am ashamed to admit that 1170 Northlanders gave their precious vote to this deluded person and the waste-of-space party.

The party describes itself as opposed to “globalists’ interests”, and its policy platform focuses on opposition to the United Nations, climate change legislation, drinking water fluoridation, abortion and centralised government. I mean - who would vote for .....uh oh ..... 'anti-abortion'. There's the clue. They went for the Christian vote. Maybe Robert voted for them.

Wellington doesn't buy into the NZ Loyal policies very much where the party received just 48 votes in Wellington Central, 77 in Ōhāriu and 89 in Rongotai. Hutt South residents gave it 307 votes though so, as I said, maybe Robert voted for it.

I'm not a great fan of Sean Plunket but this is interesting and worth listening to:

I'm pleased that we have freedom of speech in this country - a right that hasn't had to be mandated like it had to be in the USA (Ultra Stupid Americans). I'm starting to think though, that there may have to be limits to what idiots can say that creates division, hatred and violence as evidenced in the Wellington siege of Parliament over a year ago and the rise of these nutty fringe parties that at best help split the vote and at worst create fear and uncertainty in our dimmest people.