No hard figures, just met a number of them as they were pulling out of the party and joining anarchist collectives. Of course Alliance activists have gone all sorts of places. Some of them have retired from politics completely. Others have reformed the parties they were in before the Alliance (eg Democracts for Social Credit) or their perhaps joined their modern equivalent (wonder how many Mana Motuhake activists are now in the Māori Party?) Of course a huge chunk of the Alliance support base left with the Greens, and another small chunk with Anderton's progressives.

I didn't mean to insult the extremely valuable knowledge, experience, and work of older activists. But an political organization that has mostly elders, and little or no youth, is one whose days are numbered (unless it's Grey Power).

Alliance politics, like the Progressives', (and even to some degree Winston First) is based on nostalgia for the "good old days" of pre-1984, nostalgia which young people can never share. I have sympathy for these policies because I'm old enough to remember 1984, but I'm also just old enough to remember Muldoonism, and they were not good days, just old ones. Clearly younger voters find 21st century interpretations of social justice more appealing, which is why the Greens, Māori Party, and even to some degree Labour, and ACT attract the youth vote.

My point is when a party that once had parliamentary representation can't even get half the votes Legalise Cannabis can attract, it's a bit rich to be attacking ALCP for wasting their energy. At least they *realize* they're a protest party who will never get into parliament.

Have you read Terry Pratchett's 'Small Gods'? I'm imagine a short satire along the linges of 'Small Parties"...