Pee Kay
No Minister
Just prior to winning the 2023 election, in an interview with Mike Hosking, Chris Luxon said – “It’s all about management and my personal experience is that CEOs get different results with different management using the same amount of money. So, it’s what you do with it – and expectations and clarity, and bringing in all those CEOs before Christmas and saying ‘hang on, here’s the new deal, the deal is you have to deliver, you have to deliver’ … that’s what I’m sick of, absolutely sick of, all the talk and no action.”
The CEOs he was “absolutely sick of” were the public servants heading government departments.
I’ll let you into a secret Chris. So the bloody hell are we!
You are nearing the end of the second year of your three-year tenure and these same public servants continue to undermine your governments efforts and agenda.
Where are the consequences, Chris?
How many of those non-performing civil servants have been shown the door Chris?
Because in 2017, there were 48,000 public servants. Ardern, Chippy and Robbo managed to fill any empty government offices and got that number up to 63,000 in 2023!
Didn’t you claim your team was planning a “Texas Chainsaw” type massacre?!
In July this year Stuff reported full-time public servants had increased by 121 people following the 2023 election.
Any improvement in the financial mire the country finds itself in is, despite the “We’re working hard…” line, is becoming increasingly difficult to find!
Chris also told Hosking in the interview – “There’s only two numbers I reckon that New Zealanders need to understand, the 80 per cent increase in government spending and the $100 billion worth of debt and we’ve got nothing to show for it, nothing!”
Well, how are these for numbers Chris – government debt has exploded to $182.2 billion for the year ending June 2025. That is $6.7 billion higher than 2024.
When elected, the coalition government said it would get the books back into surplus mid-way through 2027. At its first budget last year, that deadline had been pushed out to 2028.
Pretty easy to see why you are unable to beat Chippy in the leadership polls Chris!
When National, ACT and New Zealand First announced they had formed a government post the 2023 election, they promised they would uphold democracy, equality, and put an end to race-based rights and privilege.
There are one hell of a lot of New Zealanders feeling very let down at the moment. Probably even to the extent of feeling disenfranchised!
Like the good corporate leader he is, Chris recently released his fourth quarter plan. The last of this year’s quarterly plans.
Chris’s latest plan will have done little to ease voters concerns.
You know Chris, with a few bold moves you could have the majority of your detractors, while not eating out of your hand, certainly thinking blue rather than pink or black!
To many other New Zealanders, the total absence of any strategy to tackle the continuing erosion of democracy and the rapidly expanding influence and authority being bestowed on Māori is still of enormous concern!
True, there was nothing in that latest quarterly plan that specifically mentioned or allocated preference to Māori. But we all know those undertakings are usually finalised behind closed doors!
In the 2025 budget, government proudly extolled it had allocated over $700 million in funding for Māori.
It is absolutely no surprise that Labour’s Willie Jackson said the government “…should hang its head in shame”. He claimed more than $1bn had been stripped from Māori-specific initiatives across the last two budgets.
About the 2024 budget John Tamihere had this to say – “For Māori this budget will have no sweeteners because nothing has changed. We will witness the same thing we have done with past budgets: 98 per cent of the money will go to Pākehā delivery mechanisms. When they fail, we cop the blame. Winning the treasury benches ensures that you get to calibrate the money to your side of town so your people benefit.”
And what about this tripe – “The argument that Peters and Seymour regurgitate about how funding to Māori is separatist, actually runs into the converse argument that all of our money has been separated from us in the first place and goes to non-Māori. What form of separatism is that?? It’s called racism.”
Tamihere claiming Māori money has been separated from them and it is racism! That’s what I would call a dichotomy John!
It is this separate Māori funding that many New Zealanders are questioning in these straightened times and why we continue to allocate large amounts of government funds, specifically to one ethnic group.
Why is there Maori-specific funding?
Is this Māori specific funding simply appeasement?
Is this government “upholding our treaty obligations” or is that just the convenient excuse?
Has not “upholding our treaty obligations” become the political disguise for ethnic grift?
What actually differentiates Māori to the extent they are treated differently to any other ethnicity in New Zealand?
Why do governments continue to identify through legislation and in budgets purported inadequacies in the way Māori are treated?
Is there an inherent weakness in Māori that requires financial compensation?
Why do successive governments explicitly believe targeted support for Māori aspirations must be one of its top priorities as was mentioned in the Auditor General’s report of 2023?
“Support” such as –
- The Māori Development Fund, in the 2025 budget, allocated over $40 million with investment priorities for 2025/’26 of –
Improved productivity of Iwi and Māori assets and co-investment in infrastructure and
increased Māori export revenues.
- Mātauranga Māori Marae Ora is a $20 million contestable fund that supports marae communities directly with projects that protect and revitalise mātauranga and taonga on marae.
- He Ara Whakahihiko – a new, $9 million consolidated fund designed to unlock the economic potential of Māori-led research and innovation.
- Whai Kāinga Whai Oranga – a four-year, $730 million commitment to speed up the delivery of Māori-led housing
“Improved productivity of Māori assets”?
“Increased Māori export revenues”?
“Unlock the economic potential of Māori-led research and innovation”?
Does all this selective government support demonstrate they believe Māori are victims of colonisation and Māori have been subjugated by colonisation, or Māori business acumen is so poor Māori businesses require support that the general public’s businesses do not, or even Māori are unable to endure without specific funding?
Financially, the country is staggering on the ropes, yet clowns like Jackson and Tamihere clamour for a bigger share of the public purse.
But what is worse, Chris, you are more than happy to accede to the discriminatory demands of Māori leaders and you are more than happy to promote their division and promote their separatism!
Why would one willingly and knowingly promote division and separatism Chris?
New Zealand is in desperate need of a leader who rejects ethnic favouritism.
New Zealand is in desperate need of a leader who govern equally for all New Zealanders!
We know we are stuck with you Chris but what you are clearly not understanding is that our patience is now wafer thin. You are leaking support daily and it is not difficult to envisage National, in less than 10 years, becoming the second- or even the third-ranked centre-right party!
And that will be entirely on your head Chris!
Chris, Labour, Greens and the Māori Party are handing you the 2026 election on a plate, yet you continue to drop that plate!
A friend, Spencer Baily, believes it is quite simple to win the next election and has made these suggestions on how to, immediately, enhance your election probabilities Chris – “Give consideration to the development of policies which identify us as one nation, one people with everyone treated the same and given the same opportunities if they choose to pursue them.”
“Another issue which is of concern is the renaming (or worse, double-naming as in Aotearoa/New Zealand) of our country, islands, cities and government departments.”
Spencer also drew up a list of suggestions which he feels warrant your consideration –
- Remove Treaty of Waitangi provisions from our statutes (i.e., remove racism).
- Ensure that no provisions for co-governance are introduced.
- Hold a referendum on the need for Māori seats in parliament.
- Hold a referendum on the names of our country, islands and cities.
- Remove all provisions that require public servants to learn te Reo.
- Enforce payment of rates on Māori land so that they share the cost of the facilities that councils provide for all land owners.
- Review the charitable status for Māori trusts and organisations.
- Change the corporate tax rate for Māori trusts and incorporations from 17.5 per cent to 33 per cent, the same as all other businesses.
Chris, in the not too distant future, you, and therefore the whole country, are going to be standing on a knife edge.
That time is drawing ever nearer.
It will be a time you finally need to be honest with the country.
It will be a time for you to make a decision on how future New Zealand will look.
It will be the time for you to choose sides!
So Chris, what will you choose: DEMOCRACY or ETHNOCRACY?
This article was originally published by No Minister.
