Consider the following, dear reader; you’re engaged to a very rich yet perverse man; you’re desperately unhappy and you’re sailing on an ocean liner. Along comes a young fellow who befriends you. He teases the richest man in America, charms numerous other super rich people, and gets invited to dinner. It turns out he has a quite astonishing level of knowledge of how to survive a marine disaster, he makes love to you in a car but doesn’t get bruised by the handbrake, oh and he has perfect teeth and skin despite being poor, broke and the year is 1912.
This could only happen in real life because no writer of fiction would ever put forward such an implausible scenario to an audience; it’s all a bit “too good to be true”.
There are a few things in New Zealand at the moment which are also a bit too good to be true. First, there are the salivating media and Labour politicians who think they’re going to end up with the scalp of a Minister within the first three months of a new government.
Secondly, there is the highly amusing notion that Maori oppose David Seymour’s claims around ‘partnership’, that Maori can unite and speak with a single voice, and that Maori are somehow living in a parallel country outside of day-to-day life in New Zealand. It’s simply ludicrous. A sizeable chunk of the Maori population supports the proposed legislation but certainly gives no support or respect to self-appointed failed “leaders” of the Tame Iti variety. No amount of slobbering media coverage can change that.
The slightly more likely situation is that because Casey Costello has done nothing whatsoever wrong, and there is proof to show this, she will survive. And Winston and the Prime Minister won’t give their opponents the satisfaction of a scalp. It is simply further evidence of the left-wingers still being in a state of shock that they couldn’t buy a general election – their horror at the ingratitude of the electorate – causing them to undertake foolish activities which are only damaging themselves.
The calls for Maori to unite with a single voice is a dead duck. Most of these people despise each other, often making no bones about it, and will never agree on anything – beyond how much taxpayers should give them in return for them not having to do any work. I suspect cracks will quickly appear in this supposed display of unity and astroturfing at Waitangi and in the media. The average Maori knows he’s been royally cheated by his so-called “leaders” and like the rest of the population is afraid of people like Tame Iti and Rawiri Waititi. It should also be noted that only around 57,000 of the Maori party’s 87,000 party votes came from Maori electorates. The fact that they got 30,000 “sickly white liberals” to vote for them is hardly evidence of “unity” or a mandate.
All these claims remind me of Matt King, Raj What’s-his-name, and others with fanciful stories about how much support they had in the run-up to the last general election. It’s all exaggerated, all a bluff and ultimately unsuccessful. Claims you can somehow browbeat a democratically elected government into submission – get them to give the fingers to their own supporters – that it’s possible to “beat city hall” – are ridiculous. The better course of action would be at the table assisting a reset of the Waitangi Tribunal, and accepting that racist laws should go. What we are experiencing is a little too much like Jack Dawson: a little “too good to be true”.
