Left doesn’t own poor, Māori: National MP James Meager’s revealing and personal maiden statement
James Meager’s experience as part-Māori, growing up poor, and hailing from a family of freezing workers proves left-wing parties aren’t the sole authority of New Zealand’s marginalised communities, the National MP claims.
Meager, elected by the Rangitata electorate, has delivered a boldly personal maiden statement in the House this afternoon as the first MP of the new Government to give his first address in the House.
…The left sure as fuck do not own the poor, workers or Māori but it sure as fuck is always the Right who bash the Christ out of the poor, workers and Māori first!
Meager is Māori, but his aspiration is the same white settler aspiration of pulling yourself up by your boot straps and ignoring all the injustice in the world to ensure you finish first!
That Meager believes far right ideological Frankenstein experiments like social investment is the solution shows how the Right will screw over the poor, workers and Māori!
It’s an audacity beyond audacity that Meagre is lashing the Left while his new hard right racist Government is ripping away worker rights, denigrating anything to do with Māori while taking $555million from the poorest families.
This new Government has made New Zealand Q Zealand and Meagre has the audacity to call the Left out?
Meagre’s word are pretty, they are the usual ‘I can do it, why can’t you’ mentality of settler culture.
Meagre is just another in a long line of people who overcome their past to use that as a weapon against everyone else. He didn’t learn compassion, only how to blow his own trumpet.
He’s just another Paula Bennett!
For those rich pricks screaming they are self made and fuck us for wanting a slice of their bread to properly fund society, let’s remember the email Steve Jobs sent to himself before he died…
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Inconveniently annoying for identity politics when people wont stay in their fucking lane isn’t it?
Well said Jack. I heard him speak 2 weeks ago and he came across as a genuine person who was proud of his heritage but had not used it as an excuse not to do well.
Kia ora .Read Michael King’s book ‘ The Penguin History of New Zealand ‘
It may give you an idea what you think of as heritage and doing well.
Just a thought, do you ever wonder why someone would describe themself as ‘ Part Māori ‘?
Left foot ? .. Right foot ? .. Think about It ?
It’s right up there with ‘ Captain Cook discovered New Zealand ‘
My impression is that Martyn is referring to attitude & not race in this article “Meager is Māori, but his aspiration is the same white settler aspiration of pulling yourself up by your boot straps and ignoring all the injustice in the world to ensure you finish first!” so while race is part of the discussion it is not the main point.
To the point Bonnie well done.
And Bonnie’s point is?
Sorry Bonnie but that’s pathetic.
On the button jack.
Sorry Jack but that’s pathetic
Bang on Jack, well said
Why the surprise? There’s plenty of poor Pakeha and plenty of Pakeha in Parliament that will see those poor Pakeha screwed over for the well off. This guy just gets to do it to both.
A person doing their best to make New Zealand a better place.
Hats off to James.
How exactly is any MP from the current joke government supposed to actually make NZ a better place – except for themselves and their groupies? Hilarious.
Rubbish.
Every word true Bob the fister( sorry for the plagiarism Countryboy) and you don’t like it!
Me I’m very happy with where I am and more so with all the attention you countryboy and many others afford me.Its fun.
A better place, by charging people for healthcare? Cutting benefits? Throwing people out of state houses? Cutting their wages and conditions?
Responsibility..?
Entitlement..?
Dog eat dog society..??
Homelessness..??
Dear oh dear.
I recall Tom Scott writing of Labour MP’s, some time around ’80-81?. lustily singing The People’s Flag at some Parliamentary Christmas do, only to be joined at the last by National MP’s chorusing:
The Working Class can kiss my arse, I’ve got the Boss’s job at last
It seemed funnier back then.
Still funny if not funnier.
This ponce James is a classic potato like Tama Potaka and Dr Cigareti. Shane Reti was raised a mormon with the subsequent values, and was picked to “move up the ladder”, as was Shane Jones. The chosen one scenario is well known in Māoridom.
Māori are not required to have a particular view any more than pākehā and other tauiwi are. The facts are though in class left terms; that Māori are overwhelmingly working class, with some middle class and in academia, and a tiny group of full on capitalists.
A country still dealing with post colonial fall out and mass inequality does not need sellouts and aspirationals to help keep the bottom 50% in their place.
Fancy that. His mother made him go to school and success has followed.
What a surprise
Poverty is worse. Education is worse. “I did it back then” says nothing about the present, and relegates to the gutter those who aren’t capable.
and his father had a job…..
What is he like 37? I am sure he worked hard but I would argue things have got a lot harder economically and socially than starting school 3 decades ago.
It was better to be Maori back then.
I came back hoping that you’d written about this Bomber.
And I’m glad I came back.
But I didn’t realise you’d gone full Greta.
James stole his future.
What a load of racist wankers we have for a government and for what ?? Can someone please explain why we need a bonfire. What happens to the space it leaves behind , because those spaces are jobs. My prediction is that we will have the biggest exodus out of the country of the jobless because there is no incentive for people to stay.
The bonfire is to REMOVE the racism.
What is racist is thinking that everyone has to conform to your ideals and aspirations, and then manipulating a small % election vote to impose those beliefs on others.
and how have you personally been affected by racism in the last few years then?
You would all be lost without that word: racism
And you would be lost without this site, a nobody falafel.
You would all be lost without that word : racism.
What’s the moral of his story? That if your Maori father exits your childhood early, your non-Maori mother will raise you to be a success?
No.
That your father gets to visit the North Island.
The guy is a fucking class traitor who has turned his back on his fellow workers. He wanted to make it harder for people like his parents by slashing wages and conditions and destroying the social safety net. Fuck him
Agree millsy. There is no need for anyone of whatever ethnic stripe, to crap on their own from a great height.
Crawlers, sellouts and opportunists impress few. The boss class love ’em for their usefulness, but also privately despise them.
Said like a true wokie.
If wanting wages to go up, and for healthcare to be free makes me a wokie, then so be it. This guy is a sellout who wants to cut wages and conditions across the board, and the guy can go and fuck himself.
Rangitata is a red neck electorate as is Ilam and there are a few other areas like this in Christchurch.
You obviously haven’t been to Timaru or Temuka.
Yes, and how many low income peoples and Māori would have voted for this twat not many I bet.
No shortage of lefties accusing Maori that don’t fit their stereotypes of being an uncle Tom.
He aligns himself with a party that wants to erode wages and conditions for his father, throw his mother out of state housing and erode social services. We should be protecting them, not throwing them to the wolves, like you want to do. Suggest you piss off the the USA
Perhaps you should pass off to Russia or N Korea. The workers have a great life there or so their leaders say they do .
Trade unions are effectively banned in Russia, and pensions have been slashed, so you would love it there.
wee jackie, trevor and bob the fister. Squeek-squeek-squeek. For Gods sake oil your jaw hinges.
Our population could easily be divide into two. Greedy and stupid.
countryboy you and your close friends,bert,millsy,NSC,Wheel,etc are firmly in the group stupid.You all struggle to construct a simple sentence.
Well said jack.
It’s not about stereotypes jack, if anything James expresses himself the same as many of his right-wing colleagues, he is a tad patronizing, smug and arrogant. So, he has worked hard, good on him so do many other NZers including Māori.
Here you go Natzo’s. Anything to help you sell us out.
Brian Tamaki. He’ll help you find your lost souls. Not.
RNZ. With scum like tamaki on their side the Jews can’t lose.
Pro-Israel protest organised by Brian Tamaki underway outside Parliament
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/504130/pro-israel-protest-organised-by-brian-tamaki-underway-outside-parliament
Conversation between Israel and Tamaki. ” Gidday Brian? Israel here. I hear you like money? You do! So do we! You want some? You do? Great! All you have to do is brainwash the already moronic. You have! Wow! Cool.
Should be easy then. It was! And they believed you? They did! No shit!? Wow! So? How much you want?
Nah man. You’re way to high. We’ll try the National party and its co-leaders. Fuck, they’ll do anything for any amount just so long as they can humiliate and subjugate then impoverish the already at risk. What? You’re saying the National party are sadistic sociopathic narcissists? Hey, nobody’s perfect. Besides, so are we.
The suit and tie say all you need to know about what this guy’s values are and which culture he identifies with and it aint Pasifikan inclusive of Maori.
Just another brown guy doing his best impression of a 19th century white guy politician.
Should go far. Maybe challenge Winston for the Uncle Tom award eventually.
Kia kaha bro!
Why ‘Kia kaha bro’?
You are not Maori but in islander, your island is still there should you wish to go back…no welfare or benefits, like free healthcare though, so best stay here and moan about being here?
At least we know where you stand eh!
He’s not dressed up in a cowboy hat.
Bomber at his racist ranting best.
James believes everyone has the same choice to be like James?
My god the boy has so much to learn!
MHK he’s forgotten more than you will ever learn.
I’d suggest you grow up Bob, however there is no chance. Please, please leave this site to us grown ups. School’s out for Xmas there must be a playground you can hang around.
Well said jack ( opening comment) James speaks truth.
Those who put in the effort to personally profit from colonial capitalism, whether they succeed or fail, can only be party to creating an unequal and bitterly divided society.
Those who put in the same effort for the well being of all, for kotahitanga and mana iwi, will be party to creating a community in which justice, equality and harmony reign.
I urge James to reflect on that.