Alexia Russell

Your tax policy is quite different.

You're ticking all the electorate boxes, economy, economy.

Let's get on to your tax policy because it's,

To the outsider, it's a little bit crazy.

We did some years ago a podcast on the universal basic income, and I still don't really understand it.

Although, do you think homeowners would be up in arms about the prospect of being taxed twice because they have a house?

Would this fit under the PAYE system or would we be introducing a whole level of red tape and bureaucracy to deal with it?

Let's look at your fisheries and oceans policy because it reads like an anti-Shane Jones statement.

You've got a raft of policies covering a lot of areas.

I don't know that that's the problem with the Opportunities Party.

No.

You say you're polling really well, but that's only 3.3%, and it's kind of within a margin of error to a certain extent.

How do you convince people that we would not be wasting our vote by voting for the Opportunities Party?

Because it's such a big thing to get over.

So they wasted their vote anyway, so waste your vote with us.

Here is the Honourable Peter Dunn.

He says the wasted vote concept is the real sticking point.

Yeah, this wasted your vote thing under MMP is quite a big hurdle to get over for people, isn't it?

Yeah, yeah.

However, you had a more stable run-up to sitting in Parliament, and I guess that was you were part of the mainstream Labour Party, and then you broke off.