And it poured down on David.
At first, it was asphyxiating.
Then, it was misguided.
Torrential rain poured upon him, not unexpectedly from the Bastion of Left-wing philosophy:
and more.
it didn’t stop.
Social media was worse.
Seymour was drenched.
I concede I may have missed the cacophony of support for Seymour, but if it existed, it evaded me.
The silent majority lies latent.
Finally, Seymour has been forced to defend himself.
And, what an outstanding explanation of justification!
Whereas National has utterly failed the “silent majority” who are increasing not only annoyed, but disgusted and getting angry, at being force fed Maori culture by a myriad sleight of hand.
Seymour’s drenching will be Seymour’s saviour.
Not that he was going out the back door of politics, but his stand against the Labour government policy of dividing New Zealand between Maori and “The Rest” aka apartheid, will elevate him to leader of the biggest centre right party.
It’s no longer ACT by default of National; It is ACT by Seymour’s courage.
Ross Meurant, graduate in politics both at university and as a Member of Parliament; formerly police inspector in charge of Auckland spies; currently Honorary Consul for an African state’ Trustee and CEO of Russian owned commercial assets in New Zealand and has international business interests.
Good to have a different point of view Martyn
“Then up spake brave Horatius the captain of the gate.”
Photo caption: “Just another man-child”
Compare that to Toxic who showed great maturity for a political editor of a major media organisation to call Seymour a ‘cockwomble’.
This will, like many before backfire on the woke.
Yes Ross, another over-reaction by the young and the restless. But the vaccine rollout could have been better handled.
I’m registered with a Wellington eastern suburbs medical practice with a sizeable Samoan contingent. At no stage was I contacted by the practice re vaccination. I gather that patients who text were texted by them, I don’t text, so I heard nothing. The practice appears to be managed by Compass Health, so I assume that this was their decision. My previous GP sent regular letters, and he or his nurse phoned stuff, perhaps emailed.
I don’t watch television so missed out on television covid publicising, got information online. There will be other persons who do not text, or go online, or who don’t read newspapers, and who would be dependent on television – if they watch it. How they are meant to book appointments isn’t clear, and they may not know how how to do so. I know one who rang the publicised telephone number and found them helpful. I was thinking about ringing it, but decided that if it was anything like the IRD or WINZ, I needed to be armed with a coffee and a good book, and prepared to hunker down for a long wait – which not everybody can do.
The Ministry of Health seems to have relied primarily on television – which appears to have rubbed some people up the wrong way – while others watch it avidly, but not I.
They should perhaps have considered making PHO’s the first point of info contact, and had patients – oops clients – oops customers – contacted by the health professionals who they actually know, instead of just relying on what sounds like a deliciously politically correct television exercise.
The hysteria over Seymour ignores the fact that he’s not responsible for Maori missing out, and that this could be partly due to communication hitches.
Didnt he say he did it to make fun of the woke left and labour supporters. But you can also read his actions as saying:
vaccine clinics promoting for NZers good
vaccine clinics promoting for Pacifica good
vaccine clinics promoting for Maori racist
Apart from looking at the racial connotations of this is it OK to try and sabotage any clinic trying to target the LEST VACCINED ETHINICITY in the country.
Yeah Nah. He wasn’t really sabotaging it, he was extending it’s good services – and trying to find a place to get vaxxed isn’t always easy. My only local and nearest jab spot said that it was for the local doctors’ patients, when I asked them.
Yes he was. He wanted a whole lot of new zealanders to go there to prove he loves all kiwis equally. Thus sabotaging/using up the time and places they were hoping to be filled by the most unvaccinated ethnicity in NZ. He did it on purpose knowing that the more people that went there would affect the ability to vaccinate the most unvaccinated ethnicity in NZ. And the next day when the second most unvaccinated ethnicity in NZ the Pacific community do the same thing where’s the tweet sending all the non Polynesians there.
If he cared about new zealanders health he should have tweeted out where all the vaccination clinics were running in Auckland. If he did that hen I would accept your argument that he was extending the good services but no he just a racist using Maori as a political toy.
Didn’t I call it the day he did it?
This was a calculated move to make an important point and get his soundbite on the News. He made fools out of all those who criticized him.
As I’ve said before on several occasions, the real racists here are those on the Left who infantilize Maori.
So us Maori having a code to increase vaccinations must be one of the few privileges we have in our country aye Andrew. Seymour has in fact shown how low and desperate he is prepared to go to remain relevant to his voter base. Given we as a country are up against such a destructive and very dangerous variant his actions in fact could backfire. And this backfiring has the potential to further infuriate those he is trying so desperately to appease. With longer lock downs impacting on our ability to open up for business isn’t it in our countries best interest to encourage our disadvantaged groups to get vaccinated so we can quickly reopen for business. Yet his reckless actions could be detrimental to achieving this.
Have we not learnt from the outbreak of Delta hugely impacting on PI that a one size fits all doesn’t work.
Good post Ross.
The woke left cannot perceive outside their own breathless bubble of government, public service and media all saying the same stuff.
Living in their parallel universe with their hubris, they will be blindsided by a public backlash to their racial and social division at some point, it’s just a matter of when.
Seymour sticks to his principles even if it’s not popular with the PC crowd.
When reading the talking heads around the internet it is evident there is an increasing gap now between the government spin of a corrupted media bought for $55million, and what people believe -eg: it’s more telling what is in the comment section than most articles and not coincidental that even comments are often not allowed or heavily moderated on news sites.
But most people say nothing.
I’m picking Seymours stand -and I’m sure it’s a coolly calculated one- will be worth votes.
As Martyn has said, Seymour is positioning ACT as the values party for the right, while National is floundering as a meaningless Auckland money party.
Again Ross you identify the political reality of the day. Seymore has the courage of his conviction to say it “how it is”
In doing so he has demonstrated spine and real leadership potential. As you point out the the “silent majority” are aplauding him, at last someone is saying apartheid is not for us in NZ.
The gun confiscation law took him from an Auckland annomolly to a political force in the current Parliament, the Ute tax has brought the tradies in behind him. This “stunt” has brought the silent majority behind him, and hate speech has yet to hit the mainstream!!
David Seymore is potentialy being delivered as the next Prime Minister by Jacinda’s ill conceived policies and National’s complete ineptness.
Such a shame he is not a true conservative but an unorthodox neo liberal ideologue, however. Always remember his brand says what we all want to hear at the time but as soon as in power reverses his promises and carry’s on the devolution of a nation as they and their types have done so worldwide. They are never to be trusted. Ever. They have forked tongues. His pedigree is Douglas, and National carried on the banner of neo liberalism with the Bolger govt and Ruth Richardson and Jenny Shipley, – the bloodless coup lady despite promising a reversal of Douglas’s destruction.
Why oh why can we not be more like the Scandinavians, the Nederlands and Germany? Or even the Japanese?
Its because too many shady characters are making too much money at our expense and will fight tooth and nail to ever have the current narrative changed.
Like it or lump it, we need another character like Muldoon, – the last of the truly conservative Keynesian leaders.
( And I ended up briefly and unbeknownst to me in Patu at the front of the lines, – the group that opposed Ross’s Red Squad. I simply ran as a young man to the front. I was horrified at what I witnessed and saddened for both sides. Personally vowed forever to oppose civil war from then on in for our beautiful country, its people and its way of life. My eyes still well up when I see old footage of those events.).
I have no problems with conservatism but DO have problems with radical unorthodox and ‘treasonous’ ( in my opinion ) neo liberalism.
i don’t particularly disagree with anything you say. The point that I was trying to make was that Jacinda with her ill conceived and ill considered policies is delivering David Seymore an ever increasing constituency by the day. All David is doing is capitalizing on the flaws in those policies. For better or for worse.
Ross, niether you nor David Seymour have justified why you consider it ok to publish messages that are not intended for you; shades of Michelle Boag.
That David Seymour had the right to question the process should not be in dispute – what is in dispute is his right to sabotage an initiative to up the vaccination rate of a vulnerable group for his own political purpose.
“When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.”
Thomas Sowell
DG, I don’t disagree with that quote; my thoughts are though in times of crisis sometimes we have to focus on the short term goal for awhile.
yep got my vote!
Ross
In respect of Mz Collins, I am compelled to say: You are onto it.
When the Leader of a Political party stoops to describing someone – anyone – by their physical appearance as perceived by that Leader, and such as Collins did when she said:
” National Party leader Judith Collins has called one of New Zealand’s top microbiologists Dr Siouxsie Wiles “a big, fat hypocrite” over controversy surrounding Wiles’ trip to the beach with a friend during lockdown.”
Such an outburst exposes not only a lack of disciple and control of emotions but it also exposes a lack of vocabulary and acumen to compose a rebuke- in the language one might expect from a would be Prime Minister.
This is bar room wisdom at it best,.
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