This country is on a racial precipice and we are being driven over the edge of it. How is this happening? It’s happening because the very people we voted into office to stop it (they campaigned saying they would) are doing the exact opposite. They are allowing, even facilitating, a situation whereby a radical minority of a certain ethnicity are being allowed to run riot over everything this country stands for. This cannot be allowed to continue. It must stop. We are being held to ransom.
Who is allowing this? I have just watched a video from the Stop Co-Governance organisation and three people have been correctly identified (four if you include a former speaker). They are PM Chistopher Luxon, Tama Potaka and Speaker Gerry Brownlee, the fourth being Labour’s then attack dog and bully Trevor Mallard, whom Ardern appointed as Speaker and Lord Protector of herself.
It was Mallard who started the ball rolling by acceding to Rawiri Waititi’s request not to have to wear a tie which he regarded as some sort of colonial adornment. Suddenly half the left, obviously supporting the anti-colonial stance, also turned up in open-necked shirts. Call me old fashioned but that immediately lowers the decorum of the highest office in the land.
I had always thought Gerry Brownlee would make a good Speaker of the House. How wrong can one be? He is certainly not an attack dog, more like a great big cuddly teddy bear. He’s giving out far too many cuddles and to the wrong people. That’s his problem. Give these radicals a cuddle and they’ll slap you in the face as a thank you. In this regard Speaker Brownlee is proving to be a slow learner. His primary role is to ensure order in the House. The Māori Party seem to think they are the ones in control.
There are two possibilities in this scenario. Either the Speaker wants to play nice (which is quite possible) or he is taking instructions from his leader. I would like to think that was not the case. The next election will mark 30 years since Brownlee entered parliament. He knows the rules inside and out but he’s making a pig’s ear of the job. He’s letting a small group of racist radicals run the show.
The prime minister doesn’t seem to see this as a problem: he seems to be enjoying the charade and chaos. This is the man who, when it came to race and Māorification, campaigned on virtually everything bar abolishing the Māori seats. What we have now got is the exact opposite. He refused to discuss Seymour’s bill beyond the first reading in what appeared to be his PERSONAL preference. He’s not there to represent himself: his job is to implement the wishes of those voters who elected him.
So it would seem we have another slow learner. Luxon has shown his political skills lag far behind his business acumen, although he must be given some credit for holding the coalition together. David Farrar had an article on the good things the government is doing that will see an improvement on the economic front. They are valid points.
It is on this issue of race where the country is in danger of being perceived as an apartheid state. I, for one, don’t want to see this wonderful country become a Zimbabwe lookalike. But that’s what the Māori Party want and they are being aided and abetted by Luxon and Brownlee with Potaka adding some icing to the cake.
We want nothing Māori forced upon us in language, education, the workplace or our everyday lives. Anyone who wants to immerse themselves in the language or culture of the Māori are free to do so: I support that, without wishing to have it shoved down my throat. Mr Waititi, Ms Ngawera-Packer and their fellow travellers need to recognise we are a democratic country where majority rules. They may not like it but that is the reality.
We operate under a Westminster system of government that originated in the United Kingdom, the very place Māori ceded their rights to its queen, Victoria. They did so to have the right to enjoy the privileges the rest of us have in God’s own. They have been suitably recompensed for any wrongdoings. And what have we received as a thank you? Hate speech, out-of-control belligerence and insults, illustrating comprehensively who they are and what they stand for.
They have no shame because they have no understanding of what that is. They might be choosing to live in 1840 but the rest of us are living in 2025. They might like to change history but history doesn’t change. They ceded sovereignty and to pretend otherwise is doing nothing more than sharing a joke around the dinner table. We won’t now, or in the future, ever agree to this country being run by a racist minority.
So what is the answer? For a start it’s not Hipkins and his bunch of incompetents, fruitloops and racists. We can criticise Luxon for not having balls when it comes to these matters, but Hipkins certainly wouldn’t survive a Māori Party onslaught, of which there would be many and no doubt with the Greens in full support. This is something else we cannot afford to have happen.
The closest answer, and I know I’m at odds with many on Backchat, for sorting out this dangerous situation is to party vote New Zealand First. I know this will be anathema to some but the future of our country is at stake. There is nothing less than that on the line. There is a sense of irony here – the politicians most likely to get us out of this mess, Peters and Jones, are both of Māori heritage.
Those two need our support. We need them to have enough clout in the next coalition to force Luxon to stop his lunacy. I am, like others, only too well aware of Winston’s past misdemeanours but this time he will not be for turning. He and Luxon have a pretty good relationship. They are mostly on the same page. Winston wouldn’t even make the preface in Hipkins’ book. If Winston wants to go out on a high (which I’m sure he does) then he will stay where he is, on the right. The dullards opposite have little to offer. I’m sure he’s already worked this out.
So a party vote for NZF is the best chance we have of extracting ourselves from the dilemma Luxon, Brownlee and Potaka have got us into. The party is already on the rise in the polls and we need to ensure that continues. NZF is our best and only hope.
A final thought to end on. If Winston feels constant overseas travel is getting too much, right there is the next speaker of the House. I doubt you’d even see the racists: they’d be too scared to turn up. Only last week they ran away from the media scrum after promising a reset which lasted precisely three minutes and 43 seconds.
What a joke.
