Selwyn electorate
Selwyn is currently held by National's Nicola Grigg, who won comfortably with a margin of 4,968. In 2020, Labour won the greatest share of party votes in Selwyn – 42% to National's 34%. The seat was held by National’s first woman MP, Mary Grigg, from 1942-1943, after her husband, MP Arthur Grigg, was killed in the Second World War. The incumbent, Nicola Grigg, is the great-granddaughter of Mary and Arthur Grigg.
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Logan Courtney
Why I'm standing
The last six years the familiar parties have failed to consult, listen and even erode the freedoms that our veterans have been dying to defend, I've watched this country be divided by racial and gender ideology masking theft and selling our country whilst jobs go overseas our people are without housing and food, farmers and small businesses tied up with regulation and taxes. After winning the war, its time to help Kiwis win the peace.
About me
I have vast experience working for government entities bringing concepts to reality, I've worked with private and public companies to increase profits whilst protecting workers, I understand how to streamline bureaucracy and have worked with regulators to produce positive results for all parties, I have helped to reduce liability and therefore reduce insurance costs and worked with the banking sector to repay loans, all done by engaging with stakeholders to achieve world changing outcomes.
My priorities
- Scrap the current tax system and replace it with a 1% financial transaction tax rate.
- Remove bureaucracy for farmers and small businesses and give back any confiscated SNAs.
- Reactivate Marsden Point refinery and open a second in the South Island to reduce transport costs.
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