The Green Party is vowing to make sure all stolen land is returned to tangata whenua by introducing legislation including removing a historical claims deadline for breaches of Te Tiriti o Waitangi and establishing a process for private land.
FFS.
Look, it’s a great policy (although I disagree with the changes to the Public Works Act), the economic backbone of this country is stealing Māori land and never paying it back, but the Greens inability to read the room just highlights the weird bubble world they live in.
People are screaming for solutions to the cost of living crisis, many pakeha feel that te reo has suddenly been foisted upon them, we are tearing each to pieces over bloody bilingual signs and here are the Greens trundling off down some cul-de-sac handing political ammunition to ACT because that’s all this does, hand ACT a cudgel with which to beat the bejesus out of the Greens while terrifying white folk the Greens are going to take all their land off them!
Are the Greens even trying to get elected?
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Such a gift, keep digging.
It does very much highlight that no matter what all the previous compensation agreements said, they are rendered meaningless. Which, the Greens fail to realise, is that whatever reassurances their pie in the sky idealism guarantees, they’re 100% meaningless too! And hence all the real concerns over any agreement with Maori over anything!
Most land wasn’t stolen, most was sold cheaply, occasionally fraudulently by Maori themselves. Some was stolen for which sole purpose the Waitangi tribunal was set up.
To remove private property rights is to go full Zimbabwe. Rule of law and legitimacy of government will be gone.
Just how dumb are these people.
Keepcalmcarryon The Rule of Law went with Mallard overruling the police with the Parliamentary protestors, and at Albert Park 3/23, when women were not entitled to police protection from transgender extremists’ intimidation and violence, and the PM himself subsequently regretting not participating in denying New Zealand women freedom of speech at their own scheduled event. This was reported in the global media.
It appears to be based on the Lancaster House Agreement signed between the UK and Zimbabwe in 1979, in which black were assisted to purchase land for whites on a willing buyer, willing seller basis.
You do realise that right of first refusal means, that if you wish to sell your farm, you only need to offer it to iwi first, If they dont want it, you can go Maori.
But, given your blind racism, you dont seem to give a shit. You dont want those uppity Maori getting one up of the white man.
Great – let’s mirror what has happened in Zimbabwe.
Seriously does the left of NZ politics actually want to win this election or are we all just bit players in a Monty Python skit?
Trying to win votes of the Maori Party. Not sure how they would enforce such a policy and what do they think the fall out might be.
Capitulation and appeasement to the like of filthy Act in the ongoing shadow of post Colonial Fallout has to end at some stage. Thousands of NZers are sitting in deep denial on openly stolen, or dubiously acquired land handed to them by the Māori Land Court and various others Acts of earlier settler Parliaments.
The funny thing is some land handovers will actually suit Pākehā developers and land bankers–because–various coastal land is damn near uninsurable now, Ngati Kahu up my way in Tai Tokerau recently were enabled to buy “Taipa Point”, Shane Jones and various others were involved. Not just white folks get a sea view these days!
In the Far North land loaned by Māori for WWII efforts like Kaitaia Airport, and land for Churches and schools, somehow never quite seems to be returned, but vested with the local Council and then sold off!
The racist boomers are gradually reducing in numbers now and the new Gens have to be given some hope by some political party–which at the moment is Greens and Te Pāti Māori. TDB has spent the last few years roundly abusing the Greens, so they are probably not going to take your advice that seriously.
The Greens are running scared of TPM so they have to compete for the voters attention and vote. They are getting creative etc.
It’s just pre election politics playing out
For what it is worth, the Treaty Settlement process is the biggest privatisation program in this country’s history, and anyone who calls themselves left wing should oppose it.
Also, the Greens would be better off to start a fund for iwi to buy private land that was consficated on a willing buyer, willing seller basis. Private housing should definitely be excluded.
Treaty settlement process not much good for everyday Maori, but great for Maori elites
That is why National implemented it in the first place.
ah yes, the shadowy cabal of Maori elites. i hear they operate space lazers that start bush fires.
Perhaps the Greens are trying to out Maori, Te Pati Maori ??? The Green’s woke voter base are probably flirting with the idea of giving their party vote to Te Pati Maori.
Think about it, ’empowering the indigenous’ is the new, HOT, global trend. It may prove to be a flash-in-the-pan, though woke voters WILL collect virtue points where they can.
The Greens certainly have the largest chunk of the climate and trans woke brands. Whereas Te Pati Maori (if polling is to be believed) have the lions share of the racist and empowering-indigenous woke brands.
There is probably an inclination to steal votes off one another, yet both could do well as they’ll likely siphon off hardened Ardernists from Labour.
Zack Brando Yes, but Marama has always been inclined to shoot her mouth off impetuously, rather than present well thought out policy; she isn’t the brightest, and has little concept or knowledge of history, IMO. Chances are this is happening again now.
Her advocation for the c**t, wanting the whole population to make vocabulary changes when someone hurt her feelings, may be the most infamous. Blaming Pakeha for the Christchurch Muslim tragedy, was ill-considered, untrue, unfair to Muslim and Pakeha, and divisive, but she didn’t care. Her various diatribes against white non-gay non-trans males would preclude her from the leadership of a mature educated party; her previous ideas about taxing ‘millionaire’s’ were much less refined than what the Greens seem to be saying now. The gender ID ideology and shocking sexualisation of children being foisted upon school pupils, came from Greens, but they may have been being used by Labour again here, ditto with jumping on the indigenous bandwagon, initiated by sneaky John Key, and again, promoting civil unrest.
What’s happening to children is worse all around, but as gender flexibility appears to go hand-in hand with sad mental health issues and anxieties, younger Green followers may not be able to function with any degree of objectivity when making their choices at the ballot box. We’re part of an extreme socially damaging global scenario now, which is another reason why Peters suddenly appears to be the most rational leadership choice, and the MSM are assiduously avoiding reporting on NZ First.
You are dripping with hatred for the LGBT commuity Snow. Its really digusting. And its only right and proper that millionaires get taxed. The rich have had their taxes cut by 50% in the past 35 years, and we have had nothing but shit public service since.
And that is wrong with teaching kids that LGBT people exist, and it is OK. Do you really want gay kids to be bullied an osctracised?
Zack Brando you just summed it up beautifully!
I wonder what happened at Ihumatao .Jacinda purchased the land to make herself look good overseas as it showed she cared for the indigenous people . The land was going to used to build 500 much needed houses with some ear marked for local iwi families.
Another successful stuff up by Labour and if they win with support from Green and TPM expect more Shell Bays ,Ihumatao deals as those 2 parties will try and out do themselves as the party of the Maori voter
Those houses were going to be luxury flash houses that were over $700,000 and were affordable only by the wealthy.
We needed social housing and AFFORDABLE HOUSING on that bit of land. Not rich prick housing, that people were going to pay 70% on their incomes on, so rich pricks like you can laugh all the way to the bank.
Go here and see how much land was stolen and the acts of parliament that allowed it.
http://www.nwo.org.nz
Cant see it on that link Geoff just lots of preaching about te Waitangi tribunal, are you Lyeing?
Appreciate the precious few minutes of my life I won’t get back.
Is there a Maori claim in for time yet?
If the Greens want my 600 square metres they can send the closest albino vegan Cook Island handicapped drag queen on her bike over to try and take it.
Just reading how a Maori business group are humpy with James Shaw who is working on ETS changes that could cost them $16 billion . I wonder how they will get out of that hole
The same way Maori fishing interests especially Ngai Tahu are blocking any changes into the quota system etc and Maori interests in forestry are one of the reasons we’ll never get sensible regulations in that sector. It’s called corruption, imagine how much worse it would be under a co-governance model.
We seem to have 3 Maori parties.
Madness
There’s a place or case for righting past wrongs and some positive discrimination for a while. However an open ended treaty settlement process based on an ever reinterpreted living document with no final settlement where people’s property rights are racially determined and leaves people subject to legalized raiding parties is not peace promoting nor equality promoting.
“a process for return of private land” !
The greens have lost their way. Protect the trees, birds and rivers make every day arbour day. Focus, stick to your knitting.
FYI commentors tip: ‘raiding party’ is immoderate language.
Go Marama. I’d be happy if the whole country was Maori land. Covered in gorse and nursing a regenerating forest.
Australia, Canada and the US are going follow our amazing example! The bonus: just imagine how great all our countries will be once we return all the stolen land to indigenous people and we go back to their technology level and have to use spears and clubs to kill each other! Climate change will be totally solved!
Greens campaigning hard for ACT. On the plus side, it’s a proposal that will make houses more affordable and remove investor speculation.
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