ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY
We stand for property – owning democracy within a self-sufficient economy based on an expanding home market of small and medium businesses.
We reject the so-called "free market revolution" brought in by the misnamed "Labour" Government under Lange and Roger Douglas and believe that the Government must assume responsibility for ensuring the economy serves the interests of the nation and people.
New Zealand utilities and resources (including power, rail, telecommunications , and raw materials) must stay in New Zealand hands, and not be subject to overseas corporations.
If the State does not have the right and duty to oversee the direction of the economy then no party can honestly promise full employment and social security, since private business interests have the power to dis-invest and to relocate to cheap labour markets. Private interests can therefore sabotage a nations economy at will.
The manufacturing sector has been deliberately destroyed by cheap imports in order to restructure New zealand’s economy so that it can fit into an Asian and ultimately a world economic structure.
