Well said!
Don Brash;
There is an old political lesson which Christopher Luxon and the National Party would do well to remember:
If you stand for nothing, you get run over.
National is currently polling at around 29 percent. That is an extraordinary position for a first-term Government facing an Opposition still burdened by the failures of the Ardern years.
I say that with some reluctance. I know from personal experience how difficult it is to lead the National Party, and I have no desire to pretend that the task is easy.
Nor do I claim that the result achieved under my leadership in 2005 was sufficient. We did not win that election. But National secured roughly 39 percent of the vote, some ten percentage points more than the party is polling today.
The question Christopher Luxon must confront is why.
The answer, I believe, is straightforward: too many New Zealanders no longer know what Christopher Luxon’s National Party stands for.
In 2023, voters gave the centre-right a clear mandate to reverse the direction of the Ardern Government. That mandate was not merely about inflation, government spending or administrative competence.
It was also a rejection of the relentless attempts by Labour to divide New Zealanders by ancestry.
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