New Conservative Party brings its message south
The Invercargill candidate for the New Conservatives Party is keen to be involved in discussion around the future of the New Zealand Aluminum Smelter at Tiwai Point. Invercargill electorate candidate Josh Honiss joined party leader Leighton Baker at the partys public meetings in Te Anau, Gore and Invercargill at the weekend. Honiss said he would gladly sit around the table with the souths leaders to discuss job creation in the wake of the smelters closure. READ MORE: * Swastikas painted on New Conservative political campaign signs in West Auckland * New Plymouth councillor Chong joins New Conservative for election * Looking for members and rustling up support for New Conservatives in Waimate Earlier in July Rio Tinto announced it planned to close the smelter in August next year , with the loss of 2600 direct and indirect jobs. We [the party] havent got a policy on it as such because we cant just sit down and make one up overnight but were very keen to discuss job creation in the province, and we need to look at what we could do with all that power that is going there. Honiss is married with two children, and he grew up on the family farm at Kennington, north of Invercargill. He worked in dairy farm management before starting a small building company in Invercargill. The party is campaigning on personal responsibility, limited government, free markets, individual liberty, traditional family values and a strong national identity. He said the party believed in standing up for families. We believe in family values and thats why we would make the first $20,000 of income tax free, so that money could go directly back into families and be spent in our local economies. Baker had visited the south to campaign for the party vote in the September election. People have the misconception that minor parties dont matter, but thats not true. They need to give their vote to the party that best aligns with their values and beliefs, Honiss said. We had 12 Columbians come to a breakfast meeting we hosted, 50 people came along in Te Anau and 100 in Invercargill. Weve had an excellent turnout. The far-right party was resurrected from the ashes of Colin Craig's Conservative Party . The latest Colmar Brunton poll in June shows the party polling at 0.7 per cent.