An Important Message - By Charlotte Weber

  AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE ·          My journey and how I came to my conclusions – from my own perspective ·          REBUTTAL to accusations against NZ First ·          Some true history that may help you understand what has happened to NZ over the last few decades! I hope the information provided will help you make an informed decision this election, I can’t tell you who to vote for, but I can advise.   The main thing I have noticed when it comes to new parties and the elections and I was the same in the last election, was the lack of education and knowledge about the electoral system, how it works, thresholds, wasted votes, how democratic parties work and coalition negotiations. I really do believe if we are ever going to combat this, civics needs to be taught in schools, as not only do we not know our rights, as we have woken up to in the last 3 years, we don’t understand how it all works once you do get into parliament; whether in coalition with the government or in oppos