The debate in parliament on the censuring of the members of the Māori Party served to prove what a lot of us already knew. The worst thing any of us could do is to vote for any of the three parties on the left. Their views in this debate only serve to highlight what a coalition of the left would do in terms of destroying the country. We would have to endure three years of the most destructive government in our history.
For a start, their views on what they call the harshness of the censure confirm their view: they don’t believe in the maxim that the punishment should fit the crime. It’s easy to see why the Greens want to defund or severely restrict the role of the police and think society would be better off without prisons. Labour has been historically soft on criminal behaviour and has funded gangs in the past.
Predictably, the debate became all about race, led by the Māori Party and the left showed in this debate that they are totally in bed with the racist minority on their side of the House.
The Māori Party will be licking their lips at this scenario because they know that the tail will easily be able to wag the dog. This is a frightening prospect for us as racist legislation, debate and control will be the order of the day. This country risks becoming like apartheid South Africa. Racism would become rife, caused not by the likes of Winston Peters and Shane Jones who are prepared to take the Māori Party on, but by the left as a whole led by Māori in all three parties.
This would be a nightmare for the majority of Kiwis who would be powerless to take action and only be able to watch from the sidelines. What Ardern put us through with the Covid debacle she created will pale into insignificance with what would confront us in this scenario. The country will be wrecked in so many ways it would take decades to recover.
This debate proves once and for all that a referendum is needed to put the issues of race to bed to ensure one people and one law for all. It was noticeable that the prime minister absented himself from the House during the debate. That is completely unacceptable and leaves a suspicious and nasty taste in the mouth. No matter his other commitments, he should have been there and spoken in the debate.
