The WIN party, established to fight the government's smokefree policy, has withdrawn its name from the ballot, and are now urging their members to align themselves with United Future. I guess they finally realised that they didn't have a hope in hell...
Update: It seems that former WIN party leader John van Buren is now standing as United Future's Christchurch Central candidate...
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...and that Peter Dunhill was the tobacco industry's man in Parliament.
UFO anti drugs? - insert adverstising rejoinder here.
Posted by Anonymous : 8/19/2005 01:00:00 PM
Perhaps the WIN Party is a casualty of its own peculiar logic. On their links page, under a link to a quit smoking website, they write:
“Smokers strongest protest against this present government's smoking policy is to quit. If all New Zealand's smokers quit, this government would lose more than one billion dollars a year in revenue, and some anti-smoking zealots will be out of a job.”
That’ll show ‘em!
Posted by Anonymous : 8/19/2005 11:22:00 PM
50 points if you can name all the extremist parties that make up UFO now! Wonder what happened to Kyle Chapman?
Posted by Kakariki : 8/20/2005 09:30:00 PM
He's standing in Christchurch East for the Direct Democracy Party; another of his Nazi friends is standing in Wigram.
It really makes you wonder what sort of a party it is...
Posted by Idiot/Savant : 8/21/2005 02:13:00 AM
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