BOOM! It’s going to be a cross burning rodeo this election with Luxon going full Don Brash with his one person one vote dog whistle.
Hilariously in NZ we have one person two votes so Luxon doesn’t even understand his own electoral system.
We had assumed Luxon was too Christian to go full Don Brash, but we’ve all underestimated how badly Chris wants to be Prime Minister and what he’s prepared to provoke to win.
National have ‘gone there’ and 2023 is going to be the ugliest election NZ has ever seen!
This is going to unleash something very dark in the NZ psyche.
Right now the ACT Party is campaigning on using a referendum to redefine the Treaty with zero negotiation with Māori that ACT will then implement as law. This policy is likely to trigger a level of conflict in this country that we have never witnessed as Māori openly rebel at having a new Treaty that they haven’t negotiated forced upon them by ACT.
Luxon doubling down in this manner alongside ACTs policy of forcing a new Treaty upon Māori is a recipe for civil war.
God have mercy on our souls.
Shit is about to get crazy now.
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Martyn what Luxon meant to say was “we believe is a one percent country”
New Zealand.
NZ First will be a common sense hand brake.
Finally, Luxon takes a stand. It is well timed after the disgraceful display in Parliament. He is onto a winner with this, whatever the reaction might be. Let’s see in October how many voters want to be governed by Labour/Greens/Maori!
Wow.
The Far right and the Julian Batchelors are going to be over the moon.
The Nats and act are the TRUMP PARTIES of NZ.
This is going to be the most Racist election ever in NZ.
The Republicans / White Supremacists/ Treaty Denial folks and the 1% have finally bought both parties.
Wow.
The Far right and the Julian Batchelors are going to be over the moon.
The Nats and act are the TRUMP PARTIES of NZ.
This is going to be the most Racist election ever in NZ.
The Republicans / White Supremacists/ Treaty Denial folks and the 1% have finally bought both parties.
Citizenship can be bought nowadays Chris (even if you are in NZ illegally the woke government will provide cover for you) and looking at National and ACT’s donation list, democracy is also for sale. I’ve got a mission statement for you Chris, how about ‘one family one house’, or is that too much a threat to your property portfolio?
The danger was already theree Martyn with the division. IMO some of the blame for the division in our country, the likes I have never seen, is the sneaky way Labour have done things, eg HePuapua and then Three Waters.
They havent been transparent with the people at all. If you have a policy document that calls for transformational change to our governance structure, you owe it to NZders to be open and honest about it.
Most NZders are pretty fair minded people and support treaty settlements and acknowledge wrongs were done.
What many of us have ressented is if we questioned co governance or He Puapua we were accused of being rascist. That really gets peoples backs up. Labour have brought this on the country. They have been the most divisive govt ever.
100%, Anker
Anker 100%. Labour weaponised race, just as the Greens weaponised gender. Both need to go.
National and Labour are equally responsible for the appalling demolition of our national health and education services and they need to go too. The circle’s getting smaller.
100 % Pope. Well played National
TPM will have to be little-sir-echo to Labour now.
Just remember who started it.
Baldrick strikes again! Not really suited to politics is this particular Natzo suit…
Us taxpayers have bailed out these Koru Lounge tossers for many years, Luxon and his predecessor “Fyfe the knife” did not give one about the provincial services and kept gouging high fares for kids going to school and relatives visiting at my regional airfield Kaitaia. They could easily have done something, but no, the community is currently sorting something out and Barrier Air flies people at $99 to Auckland! i.e. not $600 fucking dollars.
Will 7 pads Luxon’s message resonate? sure with certain white blokes, but my money is on the new gens to step up.
Luxon had to do this because the Curia Poll out today showed further drops in his political popularity and he has faced much criticism from without and increasingly within his party, as being someone so wishy washy that he stands for nothing.
He needed to stand up and be unequivocal on 3 Waters and Co Governance if he wanted to appease right leaning voters. However being Luxon, he couldnt do unequivocal so he implied the same thing with this announcement but just didnt go all the way there. Will it be enough to appease the snapping rightwing dogs or will he be deemed to have fallen short again??
Oh and BTW, Labour has sown the seeds of civil dissent every day for almost 3 years now so if ‘shit ‘ does get real, you should look at where the blame should be directed IMO. Paint anyone into a corner and they will come out fighting.
He had no choice. The Maori Party has made its bottom lines absolutely clear and made the decision for him
This election is now going to be fought on economics but also a Democracy v Te Teriti basis
Unfortunately you’re right Martyn, it’s going to get very nasty, but a showdown between the 2 options was always inevitable
You imply TPM Labour Greens MoE RNZ TDB. Are not renegotiating the treaty. If that team were more engaged with the 80% and less reliant on manipulating unearned guilt. Perhaps there would be less opportunity for a transparent korero to lead you to threaten civil war
Seems sensible to me.
Who’d want to be even in the same room as the totally toxic Māori Party!
You’ve been crowing for months about the likelihood of a Labour/Green/TPM government, but Luxon is just keeping his powder dry. He’s patiently waiting for the ground to dry before launching a masses tank assault (oops sorry wrong thread! LOL)
If you looked at the rest of the statement you would have noted that National have worked well with the Māori Party before and that this was reflected on very well.
What he is really saying is the divide is too far with his party with the current issues and members.
Personally I agree with the statement.
And since the Māori won’t go with ACT there was never a coalition with National was there?
This is a shame for the past members of National/Māori Party once working together well but also reasonably predictable.
Doesn’t mean they can’t share common ground perhaps on some government bills to pass in future. Unlikely on day to day policy issues but highly likely in reactionary issues like disaster events etc.
The inconvenient truth is that Te Pati Māori ruled out working with National in May last year.
So nothing surprising here.
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