Māori have nothing to fear from me when I’m Deputy Prime Minister – David Seymour
Seymour said Act is not an anti-Māori party and Māori have nothing to fear from him.
David Seymour has told the NZ Herald’s Kaupapa Māori Editor, Joseph Los’e, that Māori have nothing to fear when he takes over as Deputy Prime Minister from Winston Peters on May 31st.
Evidence would suggest that simply isn’t true.
This Government are currently embarking upon the Regulatory Standards Bill which will allow corporate interests to ensure private property rights are considered above human rights when law is being passed.
The Waitangi Tribunal has called for it to be immediately stopped because of the damage it will cause the Treaty.
This Government are attempting to remove the Treaty from all legislation, which again obviously damaged Māori.
This Government are reviewing the very Tribunal itself in an attempt to limit their power.
And let’s not forget ACTs last attack on the treaty in the form of the Treaty Principles Referendum, that in of itself has been damaging enough without adding these other issues.
Put this alongside taking $12billion out of the pockets of the poorest workers (many who are Māori women) to give directly to bosses as well as the cruel new welfare sanctions and deep cuts to emergency housing – all of which impact Māori disproportionately.
David says to Joseph Los’e that, “There are people who try to paint me as anti-Māori, despite me being Māori”, which is a remarkably flexible position to take that sees him use his identity when it protects him from criticism that he is being anti-Māori.
David Seymour certainly is Māori, of that there can be no doubt, but his harsh libertarian extreme social policy is most certainly anti-Māori as much as it is anti-beneificary and anti-egalitarian!
Many whanau are simply holding on by their fingernails with the ongoing cost of living crisis and those who have economic mobility are felling in exodus to Australia.
Those who are left behind are increasingly being hurt by this Government’s mean spirited policies.
David Seymour can assure us that Māori have nothing to fear from him becoming Deputy Prime Minister, but the evidence suggests otherwise.
This arsehole is hell bent on destroying Maori .He spouts he is Maori when it suits but seems intent on destroying his own Whanau due to some hateful reason .Maybe his mum should smash him in the face and tell him how it really is .David needs to spend a week living on the streets of Auckland and see how his whanau are really treated .He is quick to point out the failings of Maori but loath to point to the successes like the $80 billion they contribute to GDP and the many businesses they are building daily .In stead of keeping a list of their crime ,poverty ,and poor health why not keep a list of the many top Maori doctors ,teachers ,engineers ,farmers,CEOs and millionaires and put that out daily .
I’m sorry but could you please give a link to any evidence Maori contribute almost 1/3 of GDP. That seems a little over stated but i’m open to be corrected? Seems more like a figure pulled out of somewhere dark to attempt to prove a point. Prove me wrong.
google it and you will be ashamed you are so racist .
Well we could give you evidence that f all people voted for this wanker and he’s going to be Deputy PM, now that the Jurassic flat earth representative is moving aside
I said before the election ,if you are a woman ,gay ,a kid or brown you will be fucked over .Man am I being proven correct daily .Not just Maori but every KIWI except the 10% sorted need to fear this shit head .I have my doubts he has any idea of the reality of life in NZ .iF YOU VOTED FOR HIM AND ARE NOT SORTED YOU ARE NOW REAPING WHAT YOU HAVE SOWN AND IT WILL GET WORSE .The next government will have a massive job to undo the damage he has done .
Good stuff @ Gordon Walker.
A couple of wee observations.
The word ‘Maori’ is also a metaphor for using race to manipulate the greater populace. @ Maori are a huge risk factor for those who manufacture dis-ease within our societies for their wealth creation. Just look at what Maori achieved with the most recent Hikoi? Non Maori just couldn’t do that. Mainly because non Maori have no cohesion. No unity. Non Maori have been divide to concur more easily with the opinions and directives of their abusers.There’s nothing about being non Maori that could pull 80,000 people together to resist the overtures of greedy, abusive psychopaths.
” …a list of their crime ,poverty ,and poor health …” Is a media peddled, logical-fallacy to justify why the rest of us must hate on them Meowries. When you read ” crime, poverty and poor health ” non Maori don’t go ” Awww. Jesus! That’s awful. Maori clearly need support and inclusion. Equality actually.” Instead, and after the all bought and paid for MSM has its evil ways with us, we blame Maori for the situations many of Maori find themselves trying to survive within through no fault of their own. There would have been many non Maori just as manipulated and abused moaning about them Meories an’ that march buggering around wasting time.
I’m an old white farmer, I know what’s said and why and I can tell you, here’s a deep and ugly ignorance bubbling away out there and it’s used to divided and fracture so that billionaires, millionaires, australian owned banksters and filthy politicians can maintain their levels of profiteering abuse against us all. Our only hope is if Maori and farmers unite and resist what’s a blatant, fascist manoeuvre to walk off with our money them blame us for our poverty and the dysfunctions their deliberate impoverishment of us manufactures.
A united farmers and Maori are the solution. They’re the antibiotic we must apply.
If we don’t stand by each other we’ll lose our AO/NZ. And none should be more aware of the disastrous outcomes of that kind of thing than Maori.
Stay strong @ Maori. You put many old white farmers to shame and don’t let rich urban fuckers tell you otherwise.
Golly.
Tell you otherwise is ridiculously simple. Maori are considerably better off since the arrival of the “White man.”
To claim otherwise is to pretend.
How so ,how much income have they lost because their land was taken from them so some white cunt could exploit them and treat them like shit .They would all be the owners of very valuable property now .You forget they were farmers and food exporting before the white trash arrived on these shores .The white men saw how good that was going so stole the land for themselves .
You are correct Gordon this lot are putting Ruth Richardson in the shade by a country mile.
Complete nonsense yet again from wee gordon.
Prove it Btf.
It’s self evident Joy.
No, it’s not which is why I ask you to explain it all for us.
Good luck Joy getting anything real from an AI generated fart
have i challenged your mentality again dick head
Not in the remotest old chap.
Apirana Ngata also inflicted massive damage upon Maori even though some pseudo revisionists suggest that he was a good Maori? Similarly Hone Hika an early 19th century Nga Puhi Rangatira stanchly protected early Missionaries from attacks by other Maori supplying them with anything they needed so he could have access to European technology eg.. muskets.
Others come to mind like Waka Nene who fought against his own whanau Hone Heke wounding him because he was chasing away his business opportunities by cutting down the British flag 4 times which culminated in the Northern wars.
David Seymour doesn’t look Maori doesn’t speak for Maori but uses that tiny inch of Maori blood to use negatively against Maori. Whakapapa doesn’t really mean anything unless you advocate for your whakapapa in a meaningful way.
So if he doesn’t think like he should according to you he’s not Māori?
Sure Seymour, you’re really a ‘Mr Nice Guy’ just putting on a tough front! However your arrogance, ignorance and lack of any human empathy show your true self. You smirk, lie, cheat, are evasive and NEVER admit you are in the wrong. Your supporters are either so ‘dim witted’ or so ‘sorted’ they only care about themselves and don’t see your true agenda – Atlas–NZ Inituative, Money and Power! Bet you have your future life already set up out of NZ to skip into when you have destroyed our country. If you have, or have ever had, one decent bone in your body, you will stall your treacherous Regulatory Standards Bill and allow it to go through a true democratic process – but we all know that is not going to happen. A man reaps what he sows.
seymoure and Luxon are both failed ex business men .If they were so good why would they be back in NZ working for chump change instead of being the CEO of a major corporation and being paid millions per year .Because they have failed in the real world they have come back to NZ filled with hate and are taking it out on the Kiwis that stayed and built a more equal society .When they have destroyed NZ the Atlas network will send them to another country they want to destroy .
Neither he nor anyone from his party can be trusted around this issue because the bottom line for them is always property over people
” David Seymour has told the NZ Herald’s Kaupapa Māori Editor, Joseph Los’e, that Māori have nothing to fear when he takes over as Deputy Prime Minister from Winston Peters on May 31st ”
That statement by Seymour is a red flag.
Any neoliberal political representative telling his next victim all is calm all is good should be fearful.
Seymour and his hidden corporate and business backers aren’t your friend or support person. They mean to do you and your Whanau harm.
And there is under 18 more months to go.
If the definition of Fascism is an amalgamation of the State and Capital/ Corporations , and Sleazemore is pimping his Regulatory Standards Bill which gives precedence to Corporate rights over human rights then what does this tell us ?
That you’re not good at understanding definitions?
The Regulatory Standards Act is flat out bad for all of NZ. And well into the future, it will screw over our descendants.
Seymoure and Luxon are leading the charge world wide in the art of destroying a country by fueling hate aimed at the less well off .So much so that TRump is following their lead ,but his right hand man Musk is putting up the white flag because the less well off have shown him that they are the ones that really create his wealth .If the less well off here did the same there would be a back flip like never seen before .However it seems they are taking a bit longer to be woke .
Why the is it then that there are many from the traditional class focused left, like staunch Unionist Paul Embry in the UK who have shown that the woke simply despise the working class?
The majority of people can’t stand the authoritarian nature of the Woke and they are finally demonstrating that they’ve had enough
How long has it been since the NZ Labour Party had someone in the cabinet who’d actually been a working class person, doing hard work and who had risen from the shop floor? Don’t include union organisers as they’re all SPADs and Uni grads from leafy suburbs.
All this woke bullshit has been a disaster for the working class and those most in need. Left wing Politicians have tied themselves up in knots trying to achieve purity when they should have been trying to build roads, improve the health service and the like.
Well said Yeti.
The Labour Party in New Zealand don’t represent anyone except a small clique.
What a fing ridiculous statement from the man who supports a coalition that represents a small clique of donors.
Yeti is basically saying the left have too many members that are essentially right wingers. They don’t work hard, and are comparatively well off.