Pee Kay
No Minister
Is this type of ridiculous situation only going to get worse under any new Luxon-led government or a Hipkins-created road to ruin?
When you read about a North Island farmer stalled for 10 months over an effluent consent, a consent process hijacked by bizarre iwi demands to ban palm kernel feed and host mandatory karakia, doesn’t it make you want to scream ENOUGH IS ENOUGH?
This isn’t resource management – this is an absolute farce and it is occurring all around the country and all with the connivance of local and national authorities. How can a farmer be put through the wringer, forced to jump through ideological hoops just to manage ordinary farm activities? Yet, our political leaders remain completely blind.
You all know my views on Christopher Luxon’s track record of bestowing influence and authority on Māori. Does National not see they are alienating the very people who keep this country running? Alienating the voters who were once the backbone of the National Party.
Despite ruling them out 19 times during the campaign, Luxon has already held an hour-long meeting with Opportunity’s Qiulae Wong. If special votes erode the right’s slim majority, Luxon will inevitably invite TOP into a coalition just to keep the prime minister’s salary.
Imagine the consequences for our country and, in this example, the consequences for our farming community. They will be catastrophic.
TOP’s explicit platform represents an absolute capitulation to co-governance, aggressively pushing to radically entrench the role of the treaty across all public legislation and completely devolve total autonomy, along with taxpayer funding, over vital health and justice services directly to Māori organisations.
This potential coalition exposes Luxon’s utter lack of political integrity. Despite his hollow campaign promises, he is clearly prepared to get into bed with TOP, a party whose platform heads directly to co-governance. By enabling them, Luxon is actively selling out the country’s future, greasing the wheels for TOP to radically entrench the role of the treaty across and into all facets of our governance and even our lives. All just so he can cling to power.
Does he never learn?
When will Luxon find a backbone, take up the cudgels, and tell the Iwi Chairs Forum that everyday New Zealanders are sick of being driven into regulatory bankruptcy? Councils are palming off accountability to unaccountable third parties, leaving taxpayers to fund the fallout. We need national standards that explicitly rule out spiritual overreach immediately. It is time to draw a hard line, stand up for our farmers, and stop sacrificing economic survival on the altar of political benevolence.
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This article was originally published by No Minister.
