OPINION
For the last few days, the Taieri Plains have been sweltering under the most appalling heatwave I can remember. On Thursday the digital clock and temperature thingy in Mosgiel hit 34 degrees, which is the hottest weather I have ever experienced. Our house has been like an oven; sleep has been almost impossible; the sooner we go back to being the coldest part of the country, with perhaps a harsh winter, the better!
Now in case you, dear reader, had long since written me off as a complete halfwit unable to see what is (literally!) staring me in the face – I can assure you it’s true. In our lounge room where I like to read and relax, there is a white thingy on the wall. Last night, after two days of unbearable temperatures inside, my dearly beloved happened to look at it, ask me what it was, and undertake a Google search to ascertain that information.
Turns out it is a fan. That was not a misprint. Yes, yes; I know what you’re thinking. Once we worked out how to turn it on and set it to the lowest temperature it took about three minutes to turn the room into a wonderfully cool and pleasant space and our heatwave problems disappeared fairly quickly. Apart from confirming I actually do have an IQ of about 4, I am seeking to point out that often you don’t see what is there in plain view.
At Waitangi, various politicians turned up for the usual nonsense, and one of the silly notions being trotted out is the con game about adopting the communist Waitangi Tribunal recommendations from last year. They basically rewrote history.
What is staring everybody in the face and is in plain view, is that a sizeable chunk of the New Zealand population doesn’t care about Maori stuff.
There is a significant immigrant population; Poms, Indians, Asians, refugees, Aussies; folk from virtually every nation on the planet. And their New Zealand-born children. None of these people has any respect for the Maori culture and all are unable to understand how grown men can accept welfare handouts, abandon their families, and sell their souls to narcotics, gangs and booze.
On Waitangi Day these folks – along with other New Zealanders – would have headed along to the beach, or shopped, or done family stuff and would have paid no attention to anything that the ‘usual suspects’ said at Waitangi itself.
What we have is a complete disconnect: the mainlining of “Maori stuff” is entirely confined to elitist scam artists and the woke upper middle-class virtue signallers.
Nobody else cares. The overwhelming majority of the population – including the vast majority of Maori – are paying no attention, and are completely opposed to changing the status quo.
The notion that there is, for instance, some working-class chap in a Christchurch factory nodding his head and saying, “Yep we need co-governance and to adopt the Waitangi Tribunal recommendations smartly“, is utterly ludicrous!
What kind of a netherworld are we in whereby 90% of the population has one viewpoint which is ignored, and the viewpoint of the 10% – saturated in corruption and immorality – is the sole thing we ever hear, and is beamed around the world as constituting some kind of status quo? Anybody outside of New Zealand looking in would be forgiven for – in all seriousness – for thinking that the Maori Party’s extremist policies were the law of the land and had unanimous support.