most conservative party in recent history
That's hilarious. Did they actually say that?
Seriously, to put this in an American context, congratulating NZ on Luxon winning is like Hillary Clinton winning in 2016, and everyone saying "Isn't it wonderful that she beat Bernie Sanders". Imagine how excited that would have made you, and that's how excited I am with the NZ election result...
So New Zealand has two main political parties - National (nominally "right") and Labour (nominally "left"). National is roughly equivalent to the US Democrats, and Labour is roughly equivalent to the left wing of the Democrats. They're very, very similar, but they always hype up little differences to give the illusion of choice. Both are fully on board with every UN / WEF globalist agenda.
We then have a host of minor parties. Four of these tend to get into parliament and have got seats this election - the Greens (greenwashed communists), the Maori party (brown racists), New Zealand First (nationalist centrists - imagine the Democrat party led by Donald Trump but tiny), and ACT (centre-right - imagine the Republicans but led by atheistic pro-abortion / pro-euthanasia activists). And about a dozen more tiny parties, some of which would be great, but who never get anywhere because their support is too divided.
The Labour party has been in power one way or another for the past 6 years (two election cycles). During that time they did the whole Covid craziness, and have introduced racially divisive policies that undermine democracy and shift power towards a tribal elite. Very bad stuff.
However, the historical role of the Labour party is to introduce big changes - and the National party's role is to
cement those changes permanently by trimming off the worst parts, tweaking the rest and making the country run smoothly again but now different than it was before. During covid, the National party 100% supported the Labour party with everything they did. However, as the opposition they had to pretend to oppose stuff - so they consistently argued that Labour was not doing enough, or not acting fast enough, and they would have locked down harder and faster and been even stricter. Even ACT did exactly the same, even though they claim to be libertarian.
Another good example of the differences is climate change. Labour says that climate change is a fact and we're going to have to deal with it, so let's lead the world and do all the things. While National says that climate change is a fact and we're going to have to deal with it, so let's lead the world and do all the things, but slightly slower than Labour would to give people more time to adjust. So, you know that policy Labour was promising? We'll delay it for a year, aren't we great.
The likely result of this election will be a National - ACT coalition, with some working arrangement with NZFirst. This does have some positives - they will roll back some of Labour's most racist recent laws, and will make a big song and dance about it so everyone knows how great they are. However, they will not get rid of all of it (they never do). They'll delay climate stuff but keep on the same trajectory. They'll stay on the same track regarding covid-type issues.
And they will introduce of genetic modification to our farming industry (they're both really big this and have pushed it heavily), with the excuse that it will help us cope with climate change.
ACT is a real disappointment. The party is supposedly the closest thing we have to libertarians. But imagine the most arrogant, stupid-but-thinks-he's-wise young atheistic philosophy university student you've ever had the misfortune to talk to - that's their leader and a lot of their candidates. When it came to covid, they threw out all their principles and went along with everything. They are good on gun laws, and that's about all.
The only bright spot is NZFirst, and they're not that exciting. They are the only party to push back on the covid agenda at all - but not much, they were actually in parliament with Labour during the first year of it before losing an election, and they are careful to always pretend that everything they were involved in was perfect, and everything only went downhill once they were not involved any more. But they do say a lot of the right things, and will push back on racism.
If NZFirst had got >10% of the vote, and had enough clout to act as a proper handbrake on National / ACT's globalist agenda, I'd be comfortable. As it is I'm pleased some things will be changed but am largely just bracing for a different set of nonsense.
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