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# Career-Defining Capitulation
- URL: https://goodoil.news/career-defining-capitulation/
- Published: 2019-07-29T23:30:18.000Z
- Updated: 2019-07-29T23:30:18.000Z
- Author: General
- Tags: NZ, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 04:14

ACT party

The Prime Minister just made a decision that could be career defining if the Ihumatao development now doesn’t go ahead.

**Jacinda Ardern has legitimised unlawful behaviour by capitulating to an illegal occupation as her opening move.**

The PM has cultivated a brand of a kinder, more inclusive politics, but some things such as occupying private property are always wrong. **She has just sent the message: “If you occupy private property, the government will take your side instead of protecting property rights.”**

It appears that the prime minister has prevented the legal owners of land from carrying out a consented development, and offered the protesters a seat at the table.

I hoped Jacinda Ardern might have some sort of master plan to persuade the protesters to back down, but instead, she left to spend three days in Tokelau, a country whose population is a quarter of Kaitaia’s.

ACT sincerely hopes that the prime minister does succeed in protecting the legitimate property rights of the developer, and the wider system of property rights that a prosperous economy requires. However, at this point, it looks more likely that she’s made a career-defining error.