The One New Zealand Party
The need for unity and equality in New Zealand has been brought into sharp focus by the tragic events in Christchurch on Friday. Equal rights, regardless of people’s culture or ethnic background, is a key element of the new party,
by Andy Oakley
Putting all New Zealanders first
I am the leader of a new fledgling party, the One New Zealand Party.
- We are for a more focused sovereignty, no external pacts or treaties, no internal co-governance deals
- We are for a more responsible government attitude to property rights, New Zealand’s resources belong to New Zealanders
- We are for a stronger protection for New Zealand citizens, not just our defence force but also economic protection from a government intent on taxing too much and investing too little in infrastructure.
- We are for equal rights
It’s no coincidence that these are exactly the same things promised in the Treaty of Waitangi. Our government have reinterpreted it and are slowly moving back to the chaos we had before all these promises were made to the people of New Zealand.
We are in set up faze now, we are an incorporated society with a bank account, aboard, a leader, a Facebook page with nearly 1000 followers. On that Facebook page people can get a membership form to join the party for $10.
Nothing can be achieved, including actual sovereignty, until the Government resumes the prerogative to create and issue its own credit, without recourse to international finance.
The Reserve Bank was nationalized in 1935 thanks to the groundswell of public opinion, largely the result of Major C.H. Douglas’s tour of New Zealand, explaining Social Credit, and the crusade for banking reform policies within the Labour party, led by John A. Lee, subsequently expelled from the party because he saw that even then Labour was incapable of implementing the full policies for which they were voted to Government.
However what Labour did was to issue Reserve Bank state credit at 1% interest for the construction of state housing. This and its spin-offs cured NZ’s unemployment while other states were floundering around in the Great Depression until, like the USA with its failed ‘New Deal’, they resorted to a war economy. However, even within Depression era America, there were communities issuing local currencies.
The NZ Reserve Bank, like most other nominally ‘state’ banks in the world, does not issue state credit; it borrows from the private bankers, hence rendering it unfit for purpose. Even Don Brash admitted that the state can indeed issue credit without the mythic boogeyman of ‘inflation’, but states do not do so because they lack moral stamina.
Now the Labour Government cannot even get a few overpriced houses off the ground adequately. A few years ago I asked a Labour candidate what he thought about the Labour Government’s banking policoes that got NZ out of the Depression? He had never heard of them, and said it was too long ago. Collective amnesia, cowardice, or crass ignorance – the outcome is the same.
The premise is easy enough : If a private bank can create credit as an interest bearing debt (usury), thereby making credit a commodity rather than serving as a means of exchange, then the state can create credit as a public service, without usury. Something we can learn from Islamic banking as it happens.
Makes perfect sense…. been advocating just such a system for many decades, but as the author says, one is met with puzzlement and the attitude of ‘if that would work surely they’d be doing it’.
It would work, but isn’t being used because certain interests would not be furthered by it….