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If Northland is a battleground for New Zealand First, these don’t sound like the words of a victor.
“Despite my ego and big words, I can’t match my leader’s mana,” Jones told Newshub Nation on Saturday.
“The reality is that for a minority party like NZ First we reap our votes from the four winds. We don’t trust a candidate like me.”
Jones recognizes that the future of New Zealand First cannot depend on winning Northland.
“I think I can be a magnet in the north, but to achieve the perpetuation of our political movement in Parliament, we need to gather votes from everywhere,” he said.
The key to his party’s strategy is to kill his unwanted brother in government.
“I am going to do everything in my power to ensure that the Greens do not survive,” he told Newshub.
Under Labor, it would be its $ 3 billion Provincial Growth Fund (PGF) that would not survive, although Labor candidate Willow-Jean Prime is eager for it to continue.
“I have absolutely seen the benefits of the PGF,” he says.
National’s Matt King, who took Winston Peters’s seat in the last election, would prioritize road driving.
“Investing in the regions is a good thing, but some of these projects that the PGF has financed are not approved,” he says.
But all parties claim to be the gang hunters.
“We cannot tolerate a culture of excessive drug use. I am a hardliner against gangs,” says Jones.
“We have to aim at them, we have to push ourselves, we have to hit them hard,” King says.
“If it were that simple, we would have addressed the problem and we would have solved it already,” says Prime.
Northland is an electorate that normally votes nationally, aside from an incident when Peters took the seat in the 2015 by-elections.
That was with a nod from Labor; without it, it is a difficult task.
