We didn’t realise the NZ Herald now thought that printing verbal diarrhoea was their new standard for so-called ‘opinion pieces’ – maybe it’s just the fact that Jonathon Ayling is clearly a mouth-breather and they felt sorry for him.
Either way, at the very least they should have fact-checked what he was saying before allowing it to be printed.
Ayling used a half-page spread to make it obvious to all and sundry that his motivation for writing his ‘opinion piece’ was that he is very hurt personally or more likely politically aggrieved. It always happens when New Zealand First is winning – the pasty incel losers come out from their mother’s basements to hide behind a keyboard and start crying into their soy lattes.
He attempts to accuse New Zealand First of not being a socially conservative party by saying that we supported the liberalising of abortion, euthanasia, and strangely uses the example of the initial government decisions when the pandemic hit.
Only a four-flushing moron wouldn’t know that when the abortion legislation was voted on in parliament it was an individual conscience vote, not party vote, and one which I voted against.
Only a half-wit dunce wouldn’t know that the legalisation of euthanasia was not decided in parliament, it was decided by the people of New Zealand via a referendum. It was New Zealand First who demanded that referendum so that it wasn’t decided by politicians – it’s called ‘democracy’ Mr Ayling.
Assuming Mr Ayling is neither a four-flushing moron nor a half-wit dunce, for him to use those examples as ‘proof’ that New Zealand First is not a socially conservative party, only shows he must’ve known those facts before he wrote his nonsense – it will be up to the readers of the Herald to come to their own conclusion about what that then means.
The most astonishing part of his ‘opinion piece’ is when Mr Ayling decided to criticise the way New Zealand First is utilising Members Bills and the ballot – specifically how we keep adding pieces of legislation via our four backbench MPs and rotating them when our party policy and election manifesto keeps on growing.
Putting aside the obvious fact that we have just had one of those socially conservative bills drawn from the ballot and now will be read in the House, the reason it is astonishing is that Mr Ayling himself, when he was the head of the Free Speech Union, actually contacted us and gave us a bill to put into the ballot as a Members Bill.
It seems the irony is lost on him that he is now complaining about the very process he was gladly a part of. Or maybe it is not lost on him and he is just the definition of the word that starts with an “H” and ends in “ypocrit”. The fact that at the time he fell over himself to thank us for doing that for the Free Speech Union makes it even more poetic.
This type of pathetic baseless attack full of misleading missives and lies does not surprise our party one bit. It just gives us confidence that what we are doing is working and that we are winning. We are packing the halls around this country and people like Mr Ayling clearly don’t like it because he votes for his mates in another political party.
There is one thing he did get right – we are a nationalist party, and we are a populist party. Newsflash Mr Ayling, what New Zealand First is doing is very popular – and what political party wouldn’t want to be popular.
Whether you like it or not Mr Ayling, New Zealand First is the only socially conservative, nationalist, patriotic party in parliament – and we aren’t going anywhere but up.
Good luck on your newfound long journey ahead to try and find some relevance – maybe you should have the courage to take the risk like the rest of us did and run for office, then we will see how many people would be foolish enough to listen to your vacuous ‘opinion’.

Wonder when Willy Jackson will be held to account?!?
OIA documents show in 2023, the Manukau Urban Māori Authority (MUMA), run by Willie Jackson’s wife, enjoyed a significant contract