Crowd Funding Campaign to Buy Back Lilydale Station for NZ Ends

When the 'we're buying Lilydale for NZ' give a little campaign was launched I reached out to a number of organisations in the hope that they would support this campaign & assist us in publicising it.

Some, such as QE2 National Trust & Ngai Tahu did not even reply to our request & others like Forest & Bird & The Federated Mountain Clubs decided against publicly supporting this undertaking.

On Sunday I learnt that some of these organisations have instead decided to work behind the scenes to lobby the Government to buy Lilydale Station. I also learnt that Lilydale is probably worth much less the 3.5 million that its American owner paid for it.

This all means that our crowd funding target was far too high & our campaign no longer has a purpose, so our give a little page will be closed down this week.

In some ways this campaign has been successful though, as it has highlighted the fact that there are many Kiwis who want to see the foreign ownership of properties such as Lilydale brought to an end.

This campaign has convinced me that the time is right to now focus on exploring the possibility of forming a nationalistic, anti-establishment movement to contest the next general election. Bringing an end to foreign ownership of our land & key infrastructure & stopping foreign exploitation of our essential resources such as water, would be cornerstone policies of such a movement.

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