United Future

If people want a change of Government on Saturday, there are only three parties you should vote for. Any other vote may help bring about a Labour/Progressive/NZ First/Green/Maori Party coalition that would be the most left wing Government in 70 years.

The three parties that will lead to a change of Government are National, ACT and United Future. I invoted all three party leaders to send me something on why people should consider vote for them. First is Peter Dunne:

If the polls over the past year, talkback radio, comments on the campaign trail and my own political experience are to be relied upon, then the New Zealand electorate is in the mood for a political change.

This means that on Saturday, the voters will deliver a right-leaning Parliament and National will hold the majority of seats.

Having made that fundamental decision, voters will face the second choice: what flavour of right-leaning, National-led government do they want?

The parties that provide that flavour are UnitedFuture, ACT, the Greens, the Maori party and the Progressives (assuming this is New Zealand First’s final campaign).

The other small parties like the Kiwi party, the Family party, the Legalise Aotearoa party and all the other single issue parties are focussed on single issues like hitting children or getting stoned and can be dismissed as wasteful depositories for your party vote.

The Greens and the Progressives are locked into Labour, so a vote for them is not a vote for change.

That leaves us and ACT committed to working with National, with the Maori party dodging about in the middle.

By elimination therefore, the strategic choice is between UnitedFuture and ACT.

ACT is claiming it will put backbone into National, but it looks more like an ideological straitjacket from where I stand.

Roger Douglas’s 20-point plan that ACT is offering dates from 1987 and represents yesterday’s solutions to yesterday’s problems.

By contrast, UnitedFuture promotes ideas, not ideologies and is focussed on policies that promote jobs and the welfare of families – the cornerstone of our society.

Instead of looking backwards and yearning for yesteryear, we look forward to a simpler, fairer tax system; a health system that uses all its public and private resources so all New Zealanders get first-class healthcare; a tertiary education system that loads up our graduates with knowledge, not debt; a business environment that encourages innovation and growth; and a physical environment that’s clean and healthy for New Zealanders to revel in.

The conclusion is straightforward: party vote UnitedFuture for a change in government, a change you can trust will lead New Zealand forward.

Next up will be ACT.