According to their website the National Party of New Zealand says, 'The National Party was founded on principles of individual responsibility, private enterprise, and reward for individual effort. These principles are the only sure path to a society of personal freedom and rising standards of living for all.”

Geez, if I'd known that I'd have voted for them. Actually, I've always known that the Nats have claimed to believe in the aforementioned principles; in fact once upon a time (my first vote as I recall) I did vote for them, just because of that. Early on in my voting career I began to see them demonstrate the opposite principles – especially when in power I might add: more regulation, increasing taxes, more interference, less freedom, more government, anyway you get the picture. So I began to wonder, why do they claim one thing but do another. Over time I simply stopped voting as I couldn't countenance voting for something I hated simply because I hated the other choice too. My enemies' enemy is not my friend!
I've spoken to many National Party supporters – in my home, at parties, at social & and political gatherings and I can't help but see similarities in them all.
They include: A smugness that belies their intellectual vigour; an acute aversion to admitting their beloved National Party compromise their principles regularly; a distaste of the Labour Party, but not knowing why; none can point to a single term of a National government that didn't leave us with a much bigger government than what we started with; and evasion, evasion, evasion. Oh yes, and they all seem to be white people with 'manageable haircuts”, but I digress. It doesn't seem to matter to these sops what National does or doesn't stand for; it only seems to matter that the National Party is in power.
So why is this important? 'Surely you're opposed to socialism?” I hear you ask. Well yes – I most emphatically am, but unfortunately the National Party is not an antidote; it is a major part of the problem – it is a friend of socialism, it aids socialism with its constant giving in to it and adoption of its ideas . The fight against socialism is a life and death struggle, any compromise only makes the socialist job easier. National Socialists – as I call them these days – always swim where the votes are; that's why they look like the Labour Party in drag; if you want them to swim the way of protecting the right to private enterprise, private property, low taxation, less regulation, privatisation, and an overall much smaller government; then you must stop voting for them as they are. Until the day comes that they rediscover their stated constitutional principles, and stick to them proudly, then socialism and all its human misery will triumph – don't be an accessory!

If the 'conservatives” do not stand for capitalism, they stand for and are nothing; they have no goal, no direction, no political principles, no social ideals, no intellectual values and no leadership to offer anyone.
Yet capitalism is what the 'conservatives” dare not advocate or defend. They are paralyzed by the profound conflict between capitalism and the moral code which dominates our culture: the morality of altruism. Capitalism and altruism are incompatible; they are philosophical opposites; they cannot co-exist in the same man or in the same society.
Ayn Rand