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A “new” comer to the election is the Family Party. Well, that’s what they want you to think, anyway. When really, they’re the reincarnation (or they would be the reincarnation, if they believed in that sort of claptrap) of the infamous Desitiny Party.
Not to be confused with the Kiwi Party, who are the jilted militant Christian wing that has split from the new and boring United Future.
On the North Shore, the Family Party is pushing their candidate for East Coast Bays, Paul Adams. You know you can trust him because he owns a car workshop. He seems to be campaigning on the fact that McCully does pretty well ’round this neck of the woods and seems to be standing on the logically unsound premise that if you give your electorate vote to Adams, McCully will ride in on National’s party list and East Coast Bays will have TWO MP’s in parliament to represent them.
If but it was so.
What’s more likely to happen, if he has any success, is he’ll split the National/Fundy vote and second-place Labour candidate Vivienne Goldsmith will ride in on a minority. Oh the joys of First Past the Post.
By being dishonest on his hoardings and leaflets he feels he can trick voters into getting him into parliament and a few on the list if he can too.
With this power, he promises to “fix” the smacking law (pretty sure we already did that, pal), rebuild the marriage culture (by stopping couples that love each other but are not man/woman couples) and easing the burden on families by doing things such as giving huge tax breaks to married couples (no room for abuse, there!), removing GST of food and petrol (instead of targeting families directly like Working For Families does) and best of all, tackling the global warming myth.
I really dislike the groups that push the cause of “the family” to drag us back to the dark ages.
If you enjoy being berated and accused of insanity, enjoy their promo video below.
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Adam
October 16th, 2008
at 9:40pm
He used to be a United Future MP and stood as an independent for East Coast Bays at the last election too. At the time I was hoping against hope that he would split McCully’s vote and therefore stop the endless blue painted across the Shore. Alas, no.
Interesting though that the Labour candidate for East Coast Bays at the last election – Hamish McCracken (Mr McCracken’s son) – is now standing in the Northcote electorate. That one is probably more “winnable” by Labour.
My vote goes to stop splitting Glenfield between three electorates – there’s hardly going to be many Labour MPs on the Shore if one of the predominantly middle-class area is split and joined with the higher-income areas. I’m in the Helensville electorate – this time round. At least I can have the mild satisfaction of NOT ticking the John Key box.