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# Intimidation of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/intimidation-of-the-day/
- Published: 2024-06-05T18:30:51.000Z
- Updated: 2024-06-05T05:14:33.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-06-28 02:24

> Waikato-Tainui leader Tukoroirangi Morgan dismisses David Seymour as “a political idiot” in the latest episode of 30 with Guyon Espiner.  
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> Morgan, a former broadcaster and politician, describes the ACT Party leader’s Treaty Principles Bill as “a nonsense”.  
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> The bill proposes [revisions to the interpretations of the three treaty articles](https://www.treaty.nz/?ref=goodoil.news), which would – amongst other changes – limit Maori co-governance arrangements included in Waitangi Tribunal settlements.  
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> “You’ve got a political idiot here, who is trying to modernise a document that will make the 1840 signing a nullity,” Morgan says.  
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> “It’s an attack on an agreement that was enshrined in a trusting way by those Rangatira in 1840.”  
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> Prime Minister Christopher Luxon has said the government is not planning to support the Treaty Principles Bill [beyond the select committee stage](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/507376/luxon-says-position-on-treaty-bill-clear-but-doesn-t-unequivocally-rule-it-out?ref=goodoil.news#:~:text=In%20National%20Party%27s%20view%2C%20the%20Treaty%20Principles%20Bill,that%20was%20not%20part%20of%20the%20100-day%20plan.) but will not rule it out completely.  
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> If the bill did go beyond a first reading, Morgan says the resulting protest action would be at a level “never seen in the history of this country before”.  
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> “There are those of us who … will not sit still and remain idle,” he says.  
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> “If this bill is passed, and it goes beyond the first reading, **there’ll be hell to play, simple as that.”**  
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> RNZ

[Read more here](https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-depth/518727/david-seymour-a-political-idiot-for-pursuing-treaty-principles-bill-tuku-morgan-says?ref=goodoil.news). Discuss it on *The BFD.*

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