OPINION
It has always been questionable how much collective grey matter there is in the Labour Party Caucus. Now we have it confirmed: not a lot. In fact, a distinct paucity. They have as much political nous as a mouse ignoring a block of cheese. These 64 miscreants presumably harbour ambitions to again warm the plush green upholstery after the next election, sitting where they are now. Those seats will surely have bottoms on them but it’s most unlikely to be theirs. Arrogance doesn’t equal intelligence.
The bottom they need to be concerned about right now is how near the bottom they are going to get in the polls. The Roy Morgan Poll, which according to Bryce Edwards was the most accurate leading up to the last election, has Labour at a shocking 25.5%. Ardern also has a disastrous rating, not far above Andrew Little’s when he fell on his sword. Her saving grace is there is nobody better to replace her.
With that in mind, you wonder why they went hell for leather to pass what is probably the most racist piece of legislation Parliament has seen for some time. The answer is obvious: the all-powerful Maori Caucus, the First Fifteen. (Fourteen since Louisa Wall left). No one, especially not the lily-livered Jacinda, dares tackle them. They have a free run to the try line with their policies and the conversions are always from straight out in front of the posts.
The Maori Caucus are running this Labour Government and, by inference, the country. So we have 14 MPs of a certain minority ethnicity effectively running the country. That being the case, how can it be said that the majority are living in a democracy? The palefaces in the party are nothing more than poodles on a leash doing the rottweiler’s bidding. The Maori caucus barks and the rest of Labour bites.
This is no way to run a country. Ardern has been rendered useless as a leader. Many would argue she’s useless anyway. As of June this year, only 17.4% of people living in New Zealand consider themselves to be Maori. We now have a very diverse population and that trend will no doubt continue. It is highly likely that at some point Asians will outnumber Maori.
Despite this diversity, we are one people. In a true democracy, it cannot be any other way. Hence the proper application of compensation for land confiscation. END OF STORY. Or it should have been. Not for Mahuta and Jackson. These two have all the hallmarks of being dumb and dangerous. How can that be I hear you ask? Simple. They are dangerous with their agenda and dumb to push it through in both the manner and the speed.
I am talking of course specifically about Three Waters. Mahuta, having already rorted the system with family contracts from the government, proceeded to give two fingers to literally everybody, including those in her own party, in an illegal attempt to ram this election-losing piece of legislation through. She let it be known publicly that she had thrown her leader and her entire caucus under the bus. Having been thrown under it, the poodles then boarded the Rottweiler Express and went along for the ride, ensuring the legislation was passed.
What an apology for a government. What an apology for a leader. We are left with no doubt about who is running the country. If there is not a change of government next year Council water infrastructure will be where it is now but under new ownership – Maori. This has been the rationale for rushing through legislation that even the Green Party and the Maori Party chose not to support. No doubt it didn’t go far enough for either of them.
Activist Maori are well known for shouting from the roofs of their whares how they are shortchanged in health, welfare, education etc. One wonders if it might extend to the space between their ears because the rationale for rushing Three Waters through before the election is hopelessly flawed.
The clever thing to do would have been to put it on hold, win the election and then pass it. Then there would be three years to bed it in.
As it is, most likely there will be a change of government, even more so now that Three Waters has passed. National and ACT will repeal the legislation and Three Waters will be gone. Thankfully.
The poodles in Labour who voted this through are now turkeys who have just voted themselves an early Christmas. Three Waters, in case they are unaware, is the first nail in Labour’s election coffin. Following the election, they will realise that their heads have taken their bottoms to somewhere other than a green upholstered taxpayer-funded chair. They have, to all intents and purposes, rear-ended themselves!
According to the Roy Morgan poll, over thirty of them will be on the job seeker benefit. Not long term though if National are in government. It’s beyond belief that 50 members of a government ran scared of 14 others based on race. It can’t be anything else. There is no place for race-based politics in a democracy. They either genuinely believe in race-based legislation or voted simply to pander to it. Either way, they will pay.
This blight on our democratic rights must be stopped. The only way is a change of government. It has to be a National/ACT coalition. It is becoming increasingly apparent that voting any other way is far too risky. In the areas that matter these two are on the same page. It is imperative the next political chapter is written. With a different storyline.
As for the current lot – nothing more than a bunch of losers.