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Watch a video of Deputy Leader, John Alcock, discussing Digital IDs and Central Bank Digital Currency.

Following the challenges of the last General Election, I joined others to rebuild NZ Loyal, a party supported by 35,000 voters. On Saturday 8th November, I was honored to be elected as NZ Loyal’s President, joining a talented board to lead the party into the next election.

Our focus is clear: policy-driven solutions to address New Zealand’s pressing issues. Wage earners are struggling, businesses are closing at alarming rates, and our young talent is leaving in droves. The purchasing power of our dollar is now just 10% of its 1971 value. NZ Loyal has practical tools to restore wealth, happiness, and pride, ensuring a vibrant, independent future for our children, grandchildren, and generations to come.

We need your support to fix our country. One chance, one term, one time.

Pete Verhoeven

President
NZ Loyal Party

Introducing Our New Leadership Team

I am pleased to announce the formation of our new Board, which includes two new regular board members: Les Berger and Stefan Paladin. Their fresh perspectives will strengthen our strategic direction. Additionally, we welcome Te Rina O’Connell as our new Treasurer and Chris Dassler as our Press and Media Secretary. Their expertise will be instrumental in driving our mission forward.

Our leader, Kelvyn, has exercised his constitutional authority to appoint John Alcock as Deputy Leader, a decision announced at the AGM. John’s introduction was a highlight of the meeting, and his insights underscored the challenges we face as a nation. He highlighted the stark reality that today’s wages hold just 10% of the purchasing power they had in 1971 – a sobering statistic that underscores the urgency of our proposed 1% transaction tax, which will provide significant relief to every wage earner in New Zealand.

John also spoke candidly about the detrimental impact of Marxist governments, backing his claims with compelling data. His depth of knowledge, evidence-based approach, and passion make him an invaluable asset to our leadership team. Together with Kelvyn, John will deliver powerful, fact-driven messages to the public, and I am excited about the impact they will have.

Acknowledging Past Contributions

I extend my heartfelt gratitude to Brenton Faithful, Marilyn Park, and Vince McLeod for their dedicated service during the previous administration. Their contributions laid a strong foundation for our ongoing work.

Current Board Members:

President: Pete Verhoeven

Leader: Kelvyn Alp

Deputy Leader: John Alcock

Secretary: Julian Crawford

Treasurer: TeRina O’Connell

Assistant Secretary: Lisa Williams

Press Secretary: Chris Dassler

Regular Board Members:

Les Berger

Stefan Paladin

Youth President: Vacant

John Alcock has been announced as the new Deputy Leader of NZ Loyal at the AGM held on November 8th in Orewa. John brings a wealth of experience to the campaign. For more information see John’s profile below:

John Alcock – Deputy Leader

I’m honored to have been appointed Deputy Leader of New Zealand Loyal. It’s a privilege to stand alongside so many Kiwis who share the same vision – a free, fair, and self-determined New Zealand.

For those who don’t know me, my name is John Alcock. I come from a background in law, business strategy, and anti-financial crime, having worked with the New Zealand Police Financial Intelligence Unit, ACAMS, and major financial and compliance institutions across New Zealand and Australia. I’ve built companies from the ground up, led national conferences, and fought to expose systems that erode transparency and accountability.

My professional experience has taught me one thing above all else – when ordinary people stand together, informed and courageous, no institution can suppress the truth for long.

As your Deputy Leader, I’ll bring that same drive and discipline to NZ Loyal: applying analytical clarity, legal precision, and strategic foresight to strengthen our movement, build policy grounded in principle, and keep our focus on what truly matters – returning power to the people.

We are not here to be managed. We are here to be heard, to stand firm, and to take back our country.

Thank you for your trust, your loyalty, and your courage.

Loyal to you, not to them.

Whangarei Mayor Ken Couper is unaware of an important bill making its way through parliament affecting his own dairy farming activities.

Marty Robinson from GE Free Northland at the GE Bill awareness rally making clear the dangers of genetically modified and engineered organisms.

NZ Loyal will repeal any legislation put in place that allows GE to take root. It will also ban any future introduction.

In his groundbreaking 1992 book The Littlewood Treaty: The True English Text of the Treaty of Waitangi, researcher Martin Doutré reveals a long-lost document discovered in 1989 among the papers of a deceased Auckland solicitor’s family. This unassuming four-page manuscript, penned in the unmistakable hand of British Resident James Busby, is dated February 4, 1840 – the very day Captain William Hobson finalized it at James Clendon’s Okiato home before handing it to Reverend Henry Williams for urgent translation into Māori as Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Unlike the patchwork “official” English text cobbled together months later by clerk James Freeman from rough pre-draft notes (omitting key protections for all New Zealanders, including settlers), the Littlewood version is a near-perfect mirror of the Māori treaty signed by over 500 rangatira: it cedes kawanatanga (governance) to the Crown in Article I, guarantees tino rangatiratanga (chieftainship) over lands, villages, and taonga in Article II – explicitly extending to “the chiefs and tribes and to all the people of New Zealand” for equal British subjects rights in Article III – and ends with a simple affirmation of mutual peace, no “partnership” clause in sight.

Evidence seals its authenticity as the mother document: Handwriting expert Dr. Phil Parkinson of the Alexander Turnbull Library verified Busby’s script; the watermark (W. Tucker 1833 paper) matches Clendon’s consular stock, from which he transcribed duplicates sent to the U.S. on February 20 and April 5, 1840; its impeccable provenance traces from Hobson via Clendon to solicitor Henry Littlewood by the 1850s; and crucially, its phrasing aligns verbatim with Williams’ Māori translation’s structure, sentence weight, and inclusive idioms (e.g., “tangata katoa o Nu Tirani” echoing “all the people of New Zealand”), predating any back-translation theories. No earlier draft fits – Busby’s February 3 notes were incomplete, lacking Hobson’s final additions for universal protections.

This revelation is seismic: Te Tiriti was never a vague “partnership” enabling endless claims but a straightforward cession of sovereignty for equal citizenship, rendering the $ billions in Waitangi Tribunal payouts and co-governance pushes – built on Freeman’s flawed composite – fabricated fictions propping a lucrative industry of division and grievance. Yet it meets deafening silence from academia and media, not from scholarly rigor (debates persist, with critics like historian Don Loveridge labeling it a post-signing back-translation, though rebuttals dismantle his suppositions on dating, location, and provenance), but because validating it torpedoes the gravy train: no more manufactured Māori exceptionalism, no tribal elites skimming settlements, no elite puppeteers peddling victimhood for votes and virtue-signaling.

The moral? We’ve all been shafted by the same shadowy architects – colourblind opportunists whose playbook dates to antiquity: sow division (left vs. right, white vs. non-white, haves vs. have-nots) to harvest control, manipulation, and subjugation. The Littlewood Treaty screams unity under one law for all Kiwis; ignore the race-baiters, reclaim the real Tiriti, and starve the divide-and-conquer game. History isn’t theirs to rewrite – it’s ours to restore.

In the quiet suburbs of Auckland and the rolling hills of the Waikato, a digital noose is tightening around the necks of everyday Kiwis. Digital IDs aren’t coming – they’re already here, slithering through government backchannels like a predator in the underbrush. Sold as “convenience” and “efficiency,” these systems are the ultimate Trojan horse for total control: tracking your every move, purchase, and protest until your life isn’t yours anymore. New Zealand, once a beacon of privacy and freedom, is sleepwalking into this abyss, courtesy of a global cabal rebranding their New World Order as the “Great Reset.” This isn’t hyperbole; it’s the cold calculus of power. And despite your screams of protest, they’ll ram it down our throats because subjugation isn’t a bug – it’s the feature.

The Sneaky March: How New Zealand’s Digital ID Crept In

New Zealand’s flirtation with digital IDs didn’t start with fanfare; it began in the shadows, piecemeal and insidious. Back in 2006, the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA) launched RealMe, a “centralized online platform” for verifying identities – framed as a simple way to access government services. By 2018, the government escalated with a full-blown Digital Identity Programme, researching “trust frameworks” under the guise of modernizing services. Fast-forward to 2021: DIA pivoted to a Microsoft Azure cloud-based system for 4.9 million users, embedding Big Tech’s tentacles deep into national identity management.

The stealth ramp-up continued. In July 2024, the Trust Framework Authority (TFA) was birthed, ostensibly to “protect valuable data” while greenlighting digital credentials for everything from banking to border control. By November 2024, the Digital Identity Services Trust Framework (DISTF) rules were finalized – a blueprint for rolling out IDs nationwide. August 2025 saw the Digital Identity NZ Trust Hui Taumata, where officials patted themselves on the back for “preparing agencies” to issue credentials en masse. And just last month, the consolidated DISTF rules were updated, locking in biometric verification and data-sharing mandates.

This wasn’t democracy in action; it was bureaucratic creep. No referendums, no mass debates – just quiet pilots, tech partnerships, and reports like “Digital Identity in Aotearoa” that gloss over the chains they’re forging. From colonial passbooks to RealMe, identification has always been about domination, and NZ’s version is no different.

The Global Machine: Who’s Pulling the Strings?

Zoom out, and New Zealand’s digital dystopia is just a cog in a worldwide grindstone. The World Economic Forum (WEF) is the ringleader, pumping out reports like “Reimagining Digital ID” that evangelize IDs as the key to “economic value” and “streamlined e-government” – code for total surveillance. At Davos 2019, WEF bigwigs touted digital IDs for “political inclusion” and “rights protection,” but the fine print? Tracing every interaction in the metaverse.

The United Nations plays enforcer with its 2024 UN Digital ID initiative, backed by UNDP, UNHCR, UNICEF, and the World Food Programme – framed as aid for the 850 million without IDs, but really a gateway to global data hoarding. Enter the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, bankrolling open-source ID platforms like MOSIP to “fight poverty,” while embedding backdoors for control. The World Bank’s ID4D initiative ties it all together, pressuring low-income nations (including NZ allies) to adopt biometrics under the threat of aid cuts.

The web of actors is a hall of mirrors: WEF’s Klaus Schwab hobnobs with UN Secretary-General António Guterres, who parrots “global digital governance.” Tech overlords like Microsoft (NZ’s cloud partner) and NEC (pushing biometric creation) feed data to this beast, while NGOs like the Open Government Partnership warn of risks they help create. At the apex? A transnational elite – billionaires, bureaucrats, and bankers – using COVID as cover to digitize control. It’s no coincidence; it’s coordination.

Why They’ll Win: The Relentless Grind of Inevitability

Pushback? Cute. Privacy advocates scream, petitions flood Parliament, but the machine doesn’t stop. Why? Because digital IDs promise trillions in “savings” and billions in new revenue from data sales. Governments are hooked on the efficiency myth, and global pacts like the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals Mandate IDs by 2030. In NZ, despite 2024’s TFA “consultations,” the rules rolled out anyway – stealth mode activated.

They’ll come because refusal means isolation: No ID, no job, no travel, no welfare. It’s economic blackmail. And once embedded, extraction is impossible – data silos become fortresses. This isn’t progress; it’s checkmate.

The Poison Pill: Surveillance, Exclusion, and the Death of Freedom

Digital IDs aren’t “good for anyone” – they’re a one-way ticket to irreparable harm. Centralized databases are hacker magnets: One breach, and your biometrics, health records, and dissent history are auctioned on the dark web. Privacy evaporates as governments demand “verification” for everything – your doctor’s visit, your child’s school enrolment, your midnight grocery run.

Rights? Obliterated. Freedom of movement? Trackable and throttleable. Freedom of speech? Flagged by AI for “misinformation.” Marginalized communities – already ID-less – face exclusion, while the powerful hoard the data. It’s not empowerment; it’s a panopticon where one wrong scan means you’re ghosted from society.

The Great Reset Unveiled: NWO 2.0

This is the New World Order, rebranded as the WEF’s “Great Reset” – a post-COVID blueprint for “re-stratifying” society under digital overlords. Schwab’s 2020 manifesto called for a “reset of economic and social foundations,” with digital IDs as the spine. Conspiracy? Call it what you want – the dots connect: WEF funds UN programs, UN pressures nations, nations like NZ comply. It’s a long-game agenda: From 19th-century eugenics to 21st-century algorithms, elites have always craved control. Digital IDs are the kill switch.

Hell on Earth: Worst-Case Nightmares Waiting to Happen

Accept them, and welcome dystopia. In a full rollout, imagine: Dissenters “de-activated” – your ID frozen mid-protest, bank accounts seized, kids yanked from school. Hackers (or state actors) unleash chaos: Mass identity theft triggers economic collapse, or targeted wipes erase “undesirables” from grids.

Worse: Social credit on steroids. Score low on “compliance”? No travel, no loans, no life. In healthcare, IDs flag “non-vaxxers” for denied care; in elections, rigged verification silences votes. Picture China’s Uighur camps, scaled globally: Biometrics tag minorities for “re-education.” Or a Reform-style UK government (mirroring NZ’s trajectory) using IDs to purge “threats” – journalists blacklisted, activists vanished digitally.

Pushed despite objections? Same hell, faster. Backdoors for “emergencies” become permanent; one cyber-attack, and the grid goes dark for the “untrustworthy.” This is subjugation distilled: An agenda, centuries in the making, where the many serve the few.

Wake Up or Lock In

Digital IDs aren’t a tool – they’re the cage. New Zealand’s leaders, puppets to WEF whispers, are hammering the final nail into freedom’s coffin. Evidence screams it: From RealMe’s cradle to DISTF’s grave, this is engineered enslavement. Resist now – boycott, litigate, expose – or surrender to the Reset. Your move, Kiwis. The clock’s ticking.

The only political solution is nzloyal.com – you put us in and we’ll get you out!

The New Zealand Loyal AGM will be held on the 8th of November in Orewa. Email [email protected] for more information.

Please join Party Leader Kelvyn Alp in Kerikeri and Omapere this Saturday 18th October. The Kerikeri meeting is at the Rusty Tractor at 10am. The Omapere meeting is at 1.30pm at Kotere Cafe.

If you live in Northland we would love to see you there.

New Zealand Loyal Party Leader Kelvyn Alp discusses farming and agriculture challenges in New Zealand, among other topics on ‘The World Today’, with Mike Ryan.