We seem to have two Prime Ministers. One says one thing when speaking to Māori and then the other says the complete opposite when speaking to the Press Gallery.
At Ratana, the Prime Minister says about ACTs toxically reactionary Treaty Principles referendum , “There is no commitment to supporting it past first reading. I don’t know how to be any clearer.
“The position of the National Party: no intention, no commitment, it’s not a policy we support,”
Yet when he is in front of a mainly pakeha Press Gallery, he has a different story!
After his first post-Cabinet press conference, Luxon wouldn’t rule out supporting the Bill further.
“Well there is no commitment to take it beyond that and I just say as the National leader our position has been well understood for a long period of time,”.
That isn’t ruling it out, that is simply stating it isn’t National Party Policy.
National have been caught out numerous times now using spin lines and phrases that imply one thing but don’t rule it out either.
When they pretended that everyone would get their $250 a fortnight tax cut, they were caught out.
When they claimed fiscal holes, they were caught out.
When they claimed they had checked their Foreign Buyers policy past International tax experts, they were caught out.
Don’t even start me about the Tobacco deaths for tax cuts, National already have a reputation in a very short space of time getting caught out misleading us.
If we can’t trust their own Tax Cut policy, how can we trust them on something as huge as allowing culture war race baiting by the reactionary part of their voting block?
The Prime Minister has not ruled out supporting ACTs referendum further, he has simply restated it isn’t National Party policy.
First published on Waatea News.
There’s a perfectly reasonable explanation for the confusion. He’s a bullshitter. Like a seemingly never ending list of businessmen who wear their faith like an exemption from scrutiny.
True.
Good post Wheel.
I firmly believe Luxon does not want a Treaty debate, that it isn’t National party policy to destroy the Treaty and that he knows we are heading for a cluster fuck of toxic social destruction.
The problem is that he didn’t have the balls to stare Seymour in the face during post election negotiations and just say No. Now he has to pussy foot around so that he doesn’t break the vile agreement he made.
This blog criticized Luxon for the time taken to pull together a coalition. For the good of the country Luxon had to except conditions from Act and NZF that he did not want .It is called negotiation.
He could have led a minority government; then we would see ‘democracy’ and not the current ‘extortion’ by minor parties.
Say goodbye to the Treaty chaps, if not this government then the next. Upholding Treaty Principles so that 13% of the population can receive handouts is racist and no longer relevant. Captain Cook is not the source of Maori social problems. A victim mentality and reliance on social benefits is.
Man, whatever you call yourself you sound like a white privileged pakeha man who needs to do some homework.
Why do the words White and Privileged necessarily go together? Seems to be a racist assumption to make. Would you be happy if I said Maori and Impoverished are two words that always go together? Plenty of successful Maori out there who got ahead without claiming events 200 years ago put roadblocks in their way.
You would be impoverished if someone took most of your land and forbid you to speak your language for 50 years unless you wanted to be hit. My Pakeha ancestors who came here were impoverished especially the women they had no rights, were the property of their husbands and were not allowed to own land. Privilege comes with power, who held the power and ruled in this country not us.
“Why do the words White and privileged necessarily go together?”
Not sure, but you make a strong case for the words ‘idiot’ and ‘male’ going together.
Have you done your homework? Such a lazy comment.
Luxon belongs to a nutso fanatic Christian sect, so he is well practiced in living in alternate realitys AT THE SAME TIME!!! That’s how come he can speak with forked tounge and believe he is telling the truth in both instances ..or is that three instances, could easily be waaay more. He is not someone whose word can be trusted in the least.
You would be impoverished if someone took most of your land and forbade you to speak your language for 50 years, unless you wanted to be hit. My Pakeha ancestors who came here were impoverished especially the women they had no rights, were the property of their husbands and were not allowed to own land. Privilege comes with power, who has wielded the power and ruled in this country, not us.
Well, you’d think I’d have something to say about all this given that Ratana is where my dad is from, and that every now and then, I still take him on Sundays to the church there. But no, I don’t have anything to say, and never have, because it is all bread and circuses.
Money, and in this day and age (perhaps always) international money determines NZ politics. What is paid to Maori, in terms of economics, is lip service. Economics is what matters, economic security is what matters. The more secure we are, the more involved we are, hence why we are growing more and more economically insecure. As long as politicians serve international money, then politics is a charade….l
Comments are closed.