Why National/Act Need to Do a Deal with DemocracyNZ in Northland.

Don Brash has put up a post on Bassett, Brash & Hide, to the effect that New Zealand should do a deal with New Zealand First in Northland. I disagree; the deal should be with Matt King and DemocracyNZ.

Below is simply my comment exchange with two other commenters. But cut to the chase first - the precis:

More, there are not just thousands of people like me, there are hundreds of thousands, who prudently chose not to take Pfizer, and many of them were Labour/Green voters but they've had this beautiful lesson in classical liberalism: why you want a small government that doesn't interfere in your life. One man and one party has that voting bloc: Matt King and DemocracyNZ: National/Act are foolish not to figure this out and use it.

If you’re interested the whole exchange:

Yours Truly:

Only half right Don. National should do a deal in Northland, but with Matt King and DemocracyNZ.

Far better fit. We need Matt's viewpoint in parliament on all issues more than Winston. And Matt is polling well.

Commenter 1.

The problem with what you are saying is if DNZ won the seat they would only bring one MP into the house where as NZF would bring 3-4 MP's.

It's all about the math. Get King to join NZF.

Yours Truly:

Well for starters, I'm voting DNZ even if that throws a vote away: it's principle now, and Seymour burnt off my once loyal vote over Covid. He dropped classical liberal principles and threw his lot in with the authoritarians with unholy 'enthusiasm'.

Regarding Northland, I think DNZ is going to poll well, so if Matt can get Northland, the 5% threshold doesn't hold: he'll likely bring in more MPs. And I want Matt in the next government: for starters he'll be an ally in combating this dreadful co-governance, and better, he will be representing every single one of us who prudently, on the science, chose not to take Pfizer at great cost to many via the mandates. We need that viewpoint in Parliament desperately, because every party in there right now is unprincipled rabble as far as I'm concerned, including ACT: at the precise time when they were tested and needed to be principled, they all failed, that is, Covid policy.

Commenter 2 - David (another bloody Karen):

Unfortunately for you, science clearly shows the benefits of the Covid vaccine far out way any risks, so if your political analysis has as much logic as your analysis of science we might do well to ignore anti-vax politicians.

Your’s Truly:

Go away you arrogant fool, David. This is not about that. It's about the viewpoint of thousands of New Zealanders being represented FFS, whether you agree with it or not. That was always the issue: I have no problem with you jabbing up to the eyeballs with an experiment, but my rational - in my terms - choice not to was never respected.

Classical goddamned liberalism. Try principles.

Commenter 2 - David (another bloody Karen):

Name calling as a defence is always the sign of a weak mind. Covid decisions were social decisions for the greater good. I suppose you ignore traffic lights, speed limits and drive on the right too, defending your 'principles'

Respecting your choices is only viable when those choices are rational.

I will not bother replying to any more of your insults, poor science, or evidence of irrational thought.

Yours Truly:

Again, you arrogant fool, David. I have three degrees, including first class honours: at the start of Covid I put my biomed data into the Oxford University calculator (Alpha) my survival probability was 99.9887%. At the same time I listened to Australia's most awarded vaccine maker, Nikolai Petrovsky, give a scathing three hour interview on how all the safety protocols of science were broken in the development of Pfizer, and how injecting that experiment with no long term safety data into the whole population by force was the biggest criminal act in modern times by governments. Most people did not need to take the risk if they'd had informed consent; those who the risk/reward was in the balance of the vaccine were the elderly, obese, etc: all known from the Pfizer trials, but covered up to fill Pfizer's treasury.

The early treatments were and are effective, my wife and I have been on those (that we could buy or import) since the first lock down and they have kept our immune systems so boosted, despite my wife being immuno compromised, not only have we still not got Covid over two years later - and I'm not worried about Omicron - but we haven't even had colds or flu since before Covid. In my wife's case that is a miracle.

So shove your mystical support of the single pulpit of truth, mate.

More, there are not just thousands of people like me, there are hundreds of thousands, who prudently chose not to take Pfizer, and many of them were Labour/Green voters but they've had this beautiful lesson in classical liberalism: why you want a small government that doesn't interfere in your life. One man and one party has that vote: Matt King and DemocracyNZ: National/Act are foolish not to figure this out and use it.

With that, David, I invite you to get over yourself, and bugger off.