Have you seen my interview with Tova from Monday, the one where she quotes lots of statistics but doesn’t want to hear the answer? If you haven’t, it’s here at this link. It’s been watched over a million times on different channels, and I think you’ll like it (in the end).

I’d like to tell you something about that interview that may surprise you, and will worry you more and more the longer you think about it.I know Tova became unpopular with some people through the Covid period. Remember ‘Jessica then Tova?’ Sorry if you were trying to forget.

Anyway, I know most of New Zealand’s journalists. Some, like Tova, I’ve known for over a decade. I know the good ones and the bad ones, and they’re not always who you think.

I’d say Tova’s one of the better journalists, with integrity. I have seen her change her mind and report differently based on the facts before. I can’t say that for all of them. That makes this interview so troubling. After many perfectly reasonable, adult interviews on TVNZ Breakfast this year, she seemed possessed. That’s not a slight on her. 

Many New Zealanders have been sucked into the fundamentalist religion of treatyism.

Colonisation is the original sin, but if you wear the greenstone, say the karakia, and smite the non-believers as racist, then you can be saved.

The problem with fundamentalist religions is that all reason and rationality went out the window. This is what we’re up against. People wonder why Government departments still advertise jobs requiring Treaty knowledge for window cleaners and spend hours singing in Māori instead of serving the taxpayer. They wonder how hard it is to just follow the Government’s instructions on need, not race.

People wonder why the response to honest questioning is so vicious, and personal. They wonder how our peaceful and tolerant country became so divided.

I’ve wondered these things, too. I’ve realised that we are up against a form of religious belief. There is nothing wrong with faith, but it should not guide public affairs.

In the interview, we saw faith-based thinking bleed into public affairs.

The video showed something else, and I think this is the real reason it’s been watched over a million times. We can win, because people do want to hear the truth. Reason and logic are not dead, they just need to be pressed forward politely and persistently.

That is the ACT Party’s mission. One law for all and one future together. I’ve got to tell you it has not been easy over the last few years, but I am proud to do it because I know we are right. Human beings really ARE born equal.

Our job over the next 71 days until the election is to reach out to fellow New Zealanders who share our views, but here’s the thing: We can’t rely on the media to report ACT’s message. That much should be obvious here.

We need to raise cash, freely given by the tireless minority. We set brushfires of freedom and equality in the minds of men and women, and they take off because freedom works. If you are in a position to help as much as they would like, please do.

By advertising past the media, we will reach more supporters and set more brushfires.I’m giving it my all for the next 71 days. Please, if you can, give too.

David Seymour ACT Party Leader Deputy Prime Minister