Thornton Blackmore
Many years ago one of my first ‘real’ jobs as a young man saw me working in an unimportant (but nevertheless dapper) role in the Parliament Buildings. As the ‘kid’, I was the unassuming fly on the wall, and over several years I had brushed past many of the leading Members of Parliament up close and had even shared a neighbouring treadmill in the Parliamentary gym while they huffed, puffed and broke a sweat.
I still have fond memories of those years – of eating lunch in the garden behind the Parliamentary library in the summertime, of scooting along the travelator in the Bowen Street tunnel and of how the aroma of lard would cling to the air in the bowels of the Beehive after wafting up from the Bellamys kitchen on a weekend afternoon.
But that nostalgia belongs to a different era.
Having missed out on Camp Freedom by just a couple of days, I was instead resigned to witness on Telegram as the blue-breasted bullies beat down those who they once swore an oath to protect. And, given the contempt with which our politicians glanced down from their ivory tower at the common folk assembled below, it is clear that the New Zealand Parliament is no longer the House of Representatives, but rather the House of Reproachables.
Those who were elected as representatives of their constituents have forgotten their place as servants of the will of the people. And this amnesia is evident on both sides of the House. Indeed, President Trump’s quips about the Rinos (Republicans in Name Only) of Washington are just as relevant here in God’s own.
For instance, while we may fume at Jacinda Ardern’s proclamation to world leaders at the 2019 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Goalkeepers event in New York that their administration had “incorporated the principles of the 2030 Agenda into our domestic policy making in a way that we hope will drive system-level actions”, we would be wise to remember that it was John Key of the National Party who signed New Zealand up to this very same globalist initiative back in 2015.
And was it not the National Party that hosted Dr Jian Yang, a former intelligence trainer for the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, as a list MP for the better part of a decade?
Has our current opposition not grown fat on the same CCP funding which now intoxicates those in government?
It would seem that the National Party have forsaken nationalism for globalism and are now peddlers of the same policies evident on the left!
And speaking of the left, we now have the Labour Party reigning over the House of Reproachables, who have forgotten their heritage of working-class interests, preferring to disenfranchise those who built this nation to the point of destitution and welfare dependency.
And, in collusion with Labour are the Greens, who enjoy an ‘unofficial’ friends-with-benefits style semi-coalition as the mistress of government. The climate fanaticism of these widow-making eco-socialists will have despatched more farmers than the Department of Conservation’s 1080 will have done to the native wildlife by the time 2030 arrives – all for the sake of the planet.
Then we have the ACT Party, emboldened by libertarian laissez-faire policies intended to rekindle the private sector and counterbalance the radicals in power. But alas, how many times have we seen David Seymour suffocating himself behind a face mask? Virtue signalling to the Covid Cult and offering little opposition to the most draconian legislation ever enacted. It seems that the libertarian flavour of the ACT Party is nothing more than marketing for an under-represented niche of potential voters.
And remember Winston Peters of New Zealand First – the Maverick of Parliament and the champion of the sensible middle-ground? Is he not the Kingmaker who enthroned Comrade Ardern in the first place, while announcing to the media after the 2017 general election that “far too many New Zealanders have come to view today’s capitalism not as their friend but as their foe, and they are not all wrong”. Whether or not Peters realised the significance of his words at the time, his voters deserted him three years later.
Indeed, how many Members of Parliament have demonstrated any meaningful opposition to the destruction of our nation over the past few years?
Apart from a handful of minor parties at the last general election, how many of our political contenders have been brave enough to oppose the emerging revolution of far-left, global interests?
As the narrative falters and Ardern appears to have reached her expiry date, the mainstream media are shifting gears to pitch the people yet another pawn. But what use is it to vote red or blue, green or something else entirely? So long as our political establishment remains as it is, then no amount of voting or musical chairs will ever save our nation from its current trajectory.
No matter the party or the ideology, our politicians today are our representatives in name only. When Donald Trump appealed to potential voters ahead of the 2016 presidential election, he declared, “Our movement is about replacing a failed and corrupt – and when I say corrupt, I’m talking about totally corrupt – political establishment with a new government controlled by you the American people.”
Not only in America, but throughout the world, we have witnessed the incremental erosion of democracy. Without enshrining our rights as free men and women via constitutional protections, our Bill of Rights is meaningless, rendering us but one crisis away from enslavement. Yet as the world is slowly waking and again taking responsibility at a grassroots level, it seems that the Rinos, along with their radical counterparts, are now on the verge of extinction.
As a new paradigm of self-responsibility and co-creation emerges, those who for so long have failed to represent their constituents may well become obsolete.
May God defend our free land.