This page was created as a resource for those wanting to find out more, for whatever strange reason, about the political parties that inhabit the political fringe but have no chance of being elected to Parliament. The parties listed below are those that expressed an intention (those I noticed at least) to contest the 2008 General Election.
Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party
Website: www.alcp.org.nz
Leaders: Michael Appleby, Michael Britnell (Deputy)
Selected Links: ALCP AGM 2007, Appleby’s 2007 local elections blurb.
Direct Democracy Party
Website: -
Current ‘candidate’: Simon Guy
Former Leaders: Kelvyn Alp, Steve Taylor (aka: Stephen D Taylor)
Selected Links: Alp’s 2005 NRT Survey response, 11 September 2001, Trademark disputes (and their result), Kelvyn’s blurb in the 2007 Manukau City Mayoral election, You can tell Kyle Chapman used to be a candidate, Saving global finance from planet X (I think).
100 Word posts: Some ideas won’t die, Death of a Party, Watching Psychwatch.
icount (failed to register)
Website: www.icount.co.nz
Leaders: Paul O’Connor, Stuart Wilson.
100 Word posts: icount: a Web 2.0 take on politics.
Kotahitanga Te Manamotu Kake Tiriti o Waitangi (failed to register)
Only known sighting: Electoral Commission broadcasting submissions
Libertarianz
Website: www.libertarianz.org.nz
Leaders: Bernard Darnton, Richard McGrath (Deputy).
Other members: Peter Cresswell, Phil Howison, Julian Pistorius.
Selected News: Darnton vs. Clark, Libertarianz declares ‘Banana Republic Day’, Fee control labelled “medical slavery”.
Selected Links: Cresswell’s 2005 NRT Survey response, Darnton’s 2007 local elections blurb, Election billboard a smack in the face .
100 Word posts: Fact Free Radicals.
McGillicuddy Serious Party (electorate only)
Candidate: Steve Richards
National Democrats Party (Gave up)
Website: www.nationaldemocrats.webs.com
Leaders: Anton Foljambe, Kyle Chapman (deputy).
Other Members: Kerry Bolton (and his publications).
Selected Links: Kyle at Stormfront (white nationalist site), Anton at Stormfront, Kyle related news at Fight Dem Back (anti-racist site), Picture of Kyle and friends, Kyle and Anton’s survival club, Neo-Nazi thesis removed from university shelves.
100 Word posts: Why the NZ National Front never took off, Kyle Chapman’s plan to counter ‘radicles’, Neo-fascists give up, Obituary: National Democrats Party, The next fascist failure.
New World Order (registered but no list or candidates submitted)
Only known member: Nathan Couper (party secretary)
New Zealand Liberal Party (failed to register)
Website: www.liberals.org.nz (looks less awful on a 22″ widescreen)
Leader: Jonathan Lee
Selected Links: Launch press release, Liberal’s draft NZ Constitution, Party Charter, Lee’s DHB election bio, Lee’s response to NZ Nurses Organisation DHB elections questions (bottom of 2nd page).
Selected news: No Right Turn on the Liberal Party, Lee interviewed on bFM.
100 Word posts: New Zealand Liberal Party
New Zealand Pacific Party
Website: ?
Leader: Taito Phillip Field
Selected Links: Field confirms New Zealand Pacific Party on Radio NZ National’s Insight programme (14mins into story), Ingram report on Taito and the Thai tiler, Helen Clark quotes on Field.
Selected News: Field confirms planning for new party, Taito Phillip Field Corruption Case – Timeline, Police lay 40 charges against Field, Field guilty of illegal building work, Field to stand trial for bribery & corruption, MP’s High Court trial date set.
100 Word posts: New Zealand Pacific Party: Taito Phillip Field’s last stand, Broadcast allocation bungles.
No Commercial Airport at Whenuapai Airbase (electorate only)
Only known member: Toby Hutton
Residents Action Movement
Websites: ram-auckland.net/wordpress & www.interrobang.co.nz/ram
Leaders: Oliver Woods, Grant Morgan
Selected Links: Newzeal on RAM, Fundypost on RAM
Selected News: RAM fighting corporate greed
100 Word Posts: Minnow Parties exceeding low standards.
South Island Party (failed to register)
Leader: Richard Prosser
Website: ?
100 Word posts: The South Island Party
The Alliance
Website: www.alliance.org.nz
Leaders: Andrew McKenzie, Kay Murray.
Other members: Victor Billot
Selected Links: The Alliance’s Flickr, the Alliance’s Facebook page.
Selected News: Alliance party releases list for next election.
100 Word posts: Some ideas won’t die, The Alliance and its irrelevance.
The Bill and Ben Party
The Hapu Party (electorate only)
Website: ?
Leader: David Rankin
Selected News: Maori Party says, “Go straight to the police, Mr Rankin.“
100 Word Posts: The Hapu Party
The Family Party
Website: www.thefamilyparty.org.nz
Leaders: Richard Lewis, Paul Adams
Selected News: Copeland foresakes Lewis’ Christian party
100 Word posts: Official Launch, The Family Party, Does a Christian party have a chance? Family Party conference ignored, Do ‘family values’ mean being thick?, Minnow Parties exceeding low standards.
The Kiwi Party
Website: www.thekiwiparty.org.nz
Leaders: Larry Baldock.
Other members: ‘Dr’ Bernie Ogilvy, Gordon Copeland.
Selected News: Copeland foresakes Lewis’ Christian party, New Christian Party – an idiot’s guide, Kiwi Party registers in the polls (0.4%), Kiwi Party holds inaugural conference.
100 Word posts: Does a Christian party have a chance?, The Kiwi Party: Out to Launch, Broadcast allocation bungles, Kiwi Party conference.
The New Zealand Democratic Party for Social Credit
Website: www.democrats.org.nz
Leaders: Stephnie de Ruyter, John Pemberton.
Other Members: Allen Cookson
Selected Links: Pemberton’s 2005 NRT Survey response, Plains FM interview- Iain Parker: DSC’s Small Business Spokesperson (haven’t listened to this myself -Richard) .
100 Word posts: Some ideas won’t die, Democrats for Social Credit list.
The Republic of New Zealand Party
Website: www.republicans.org.nz
Leaders: Kevin Berry, Dave Llewell (Chairman)
Other members: Jack Gielen
100 Word posts: Republicans don’t debate republicanism, More than just disgruntled fathers?, Broadcast allocation bungles, Republicans do debate republicanism, Republicanism in and out of the news, Failing at photo journalism but suceeding at lunch.
Workers Party of New Zealand
Website: www.workersparty.org.nz
Leaders: Apparently not into leaders.
Members: Nick Kelly, Paul Hopkinson, Tim Bowron.
Selected Links: The Workers Party’s Facebook page, The Spark – the Workers Party’s blog, Posters at bus terminal and on bus evidence that the extremist Workers Party seeks to use Wellington bus driver pay dispute for its own ends.
100 Word posts: Nick Kelly for Mayor of Wellington.
Minor Political Parties New Zealand
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Colin Bruce Milne // 3 August, 2008 at 1:44 pm |
It has been about time that someone decided to have a look at the smaller political parties outside of the establishment parties that the mainstream media do support.