The reality is that NZ First can probably lean into enough support to hit double digits when you consider the sub 5% vote for anti-vaxx lunatics. The New Conservatives, NewZeal, NZ Outdoors, NZ Loyal and the Freedom Party are all crazy as fuck, and that’s why Winston is raging against the WHO! For New Conservatives, NewZeal, NZ Outdoors, NZ Loyal and the Freedom Party, the WHO is a shadowy one world government organisation run by a Satanic child abusing cabal. Micro targeting crazy sub groups of the Alt-Right is how One Australia and Reform are making in roads. The messaging sounds crazy to the rest of us, but to those alt-right sub groups who don’t get representation, the conspiracies are music to their ears.

Source: New Zealand Herald February 05, 2026 06:13 UTC