AMPP - let's do it

Ok. so I'm ready to propose that we launch the party. I made a good speech, but it's trapped on my dumb phone. Here's the gist: I need a party secretary, startup capital, a treasurer and a president. I'm considering being the secretary, but I'm not entirely sure what that entails. I was Dan McCaffrey's secretary for a while, and I could ask Phil Saxby for advice on that. - For all the people who are interested in defecting from established parties - which actually isn't necessary, as our constitution allows people to be members of more than one party: it's a joke party, but I want it to be equitably funded by the Electoral Commission in 2026, exploiting the same loophole that all fringe parties use. That's 2 years away, so if we're going to really do this and get those 500 members that are required to register a party, then we need some funds to establish the party architecture and assemble the core team. Ideally, we get our share of the 2026 broadcasting allocation, and everyone uses that money to do whatever they think is most likely to help us get more votes. Very Guerrilla. - I think that AMPP could succeed where TOP and Internet-Mana failed because we're actively campaigning from 3 years out. Plus I'm more likeable than Gareth Morgan or Kim Dotcom. I'm deadly serious about my candidate selection process, as outlined in the AMPP constitution. Basically, we pick our candidates from a hat, and I reckon that we livestream our process, and get a bunch of well-known comedians to put their names in the draw. I'm intending to contest for the party vote in 2026 to test the waters, and then for AMPP to contest an electorate in 2029 or 2030. - Then I went on a big tangent about how RNZ allowed me to join the PSA, and now that I've had a taste of a unionised job, I think that film workers need to force the coalition to allow us to unionise. I suggested that my career fell through the cracks because it's very difficult to make a living wage without solidarity, and film is an industry where underbidding is the norm. My big pitch was to pitch artists as public servants, which makes sense given that state funding is the primary funding stream, and then allow us to join the PSA. I said something like 'just because one's work is out of fashion shouldn't mean that you live on Poverty Row' - it was a good line, so I thought I'd throw that in.