This article won’t be pleasing for the Never Winston brigade: those who are so blinded by their allegiance to the wet and woke National Party that they can’t see that Winston Peters is actually saying the things National Party leaders used to say, back when they stood for something.
But right now Winston Peters is hitting home runs out of the park. He is saying the things that most of us are thinking.
While Christopher Luxon sticks up for men using women’s toilets, Winston Peters is saying NO. Luxon might like to think this is unimportant but for more than 50 per cent of the population this IS an issue, whether he likes it or not.
When media luvvies like Tova Two-Mums and No-Dad get upset, you know he is on to something. We all now know which side Luxon would have stood with at the Posie Parker rally, and it is not for real women.
The next outrage will be what Winston Peters said in a speech in Pukekohe on Sunday.
Peters said: “New Zealand First will formally withdraw New Zealand from UNDRIP, and its imposed race-based obligations, and restore our country’s constitutional sovereignty and democracy.”
UNDRIP, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is a legally non-binding resolution the United Nations passed in 2007. The purpose of the declaration is to emphasise the rights of indigenous people, prohibit discrimination and encourage co-operation with them by governments.
Peters, alongside the Helen Clark Labour government, voted against the resolution in 2007. New Zealand then endorsed the declaration in 2010 under John Key’s National government.
Peters said UNDRIP and He Puapua, a report commissioned by the Labour-NZ First government in 2019 and leaked by the National party in 2021, “are race-based preferences”.
“If New Zealand First had seen that final report then we would have rejected UNDRIP, as we did in 2007.
“The National/ACT/Maori Party signing up to UNDRIP, and the Labour/Green parties joining them in imposing United Nations obligations on New Zealand’s sovereignty, has got to be challenged,” he said.
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As well as advocating for English to be made an official language of New Zealand:
NZ First leader Winston Peters has promised to make English an official language as part of his platform to “deal to this racism”.
Speaking today at a public meeting in Auckland’s Pukekohe, Peters said it amazes him that English is not an official language of New Zealand while te reo Maori and NZ sign language are.
“Being that we are an English-speaking country, it is bizarre that we have to do this, but this is how far this extremism has taken our country,” Peters said.
English already enjoys de-facto official status, being spoken by 95.4 per cent of the population, according to the 2018 national census. It has never been an official language.
The distinction has been explained in response to previous attempts to make English an official language by Otago law professor Andrew Geddis as an opportunity “to affirmatively grant the right to use them [te reo and NZSL] in particular, specified situations where they otherwise could not be used. This is not the case with English.”
It is assumed, both unofficially and officially, that English is the language already spoken by most New Zealanders, with a minimum proficiency in it required for many visas.
Peters, however, said it’s “just commonsense” to enshrine the language, protecting it from attacks he sees being carried out by “the new fascists” in government.
He also rallied against “ideological mumbo jumbo pushing to change the name of our country to Aotearoa”.
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This is the sort of stuff that Christopher Luxon is too scared to engage with. Luxon surely must realise that he needs Winston Peters to say and do these sorts of things. He needs Winston Peters as a bulwark against the increasingly desperate David Seymour, who seems to have a only one worry this election campaign: that Winston Peters is stealing his thunder.
Right now Winston Peters is saying and doing all the right things in this election campaign. National Party stalwarts better watch out because Winston Peters is coming for the middle ground that you used to own in NZ politics.
He is stealing votes from Labour, National and ACT now. Watch as his poll numbers increase while National’s stagnate.
Oh, and you better get used to seeing more of Winston Peters. He’s back and may well be bigger than ever.
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