The great champion of economic nationalism and independence, Winston Peters, the politician who launched his Party raging against trans national corporate interests has finally degraded and buried whatever mana he once had by voting for the horrific Regulatory Standards Bill!
The Bill that 98.7% opposed this mutation during select committee, but Winston has gutlessly caved into David Seymour anyway.
Greenpeace are scathing…
Winston Peters and NZ First hand victory to ACT over corporate Bill of Rights
Despite ACT failing to pass three earlier versions of the Regulatory Standards bill, they have succeeded passing it into law today, due to the backing of NZ First and the National Party.
“With one vote, Winston Peters has undermined his and NZ First’s entire legacy,” says Greenpeace campaigner Gen Toop. “Today, he helped pass a law that sells Aotearoa and its people out to foreign corporations to use and abuse.”
The new Regulatory Standards Act creates an unprecedented expectation that the Crown compensates corporations if environmental or public interest laws impact their property rights. It also creates a set of controversial “principles” which lawmakers must follow.
Greenpeace warns that this will open the door to multinational corporations demanding payouts for laws that protect Aotearoa’s drinking water, wildlife, and environment.
“The Regulatory Standards Act is a corporate bill of rights, designed to ensure that from now on the Government will be forced to serve corporate interests instead of people, nature, and Te Tiriti o Waitangi,” says Toop
“Clean drinking water, safe food and a liveable climate should never be made subservient to the so-called property rights of corporations.
“But, thanks to NZ First, from today multinational corporations will expect New Zealanders to hand over their taxpayer money whenever the government takes even the most basic steps to protect workers, people or the environment,” says Toop.
…The Regulatory Standards Bill puts property rights above human rights by creating a corporate stacked board who will vet all legislation to ensure it doesn’t hurt their profit margin.
It’s the most undemocratic legislation passed in NZs history, by enabling corporations to blacklist environmental laws and challenge any taxes.
Winston giving corporations this level of influence over our democratic process is a permanent stain on any honour he once had.
NZ First voters are a mix of redneck, anti-vaxxer, anti-Trans, Pro-Israel conspiracy theorists, so how they will square Winston handing over so much power to corporations will confuse them as much as your average eclipse.
NZ First is the very worst of NZ politics.
Winston has put NZ Last by selling out to corporate power.
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Right On! Hand clasp Bro! Winston is just A pro Winston operation. You hapless kiwis don’t even count!
Nothing new there .Now he will ramp up his attack on gay people with the support of ACT.And pass a law decriminalization of being gay
That GW is a jumble of words that contradict themselves, do you know what you are trying to say?
Winston is a sell-out he always has been his followers don’t even give a fuck about what coming or they’re so down the conspiracy hole there no return
It’s always been Winston first never mind the plebs . Was it Faust that sold his soul to the devil or was it Winston peters
Well the slimy, sleezebag, 8% Seymour, has again WITHOUT CONSULTATION OR TRANSPARENCY, brought in a Bill, so ANTI New Zealandanders, with the support of his dim-witted, short sighted CoC cronies. This smug ‘Atlas owned’ robot will be patting himself on the back, but maybe not for too long. HOW COULD KIWIS BE SO DUMB? The joke is, the majority of NZ people, who supported this Bill by putting this bullying and controlling CoC into power, will never gain one thing from this insidious piece of SH&T legislation but they don’t have the brains to see that. In fact it will turn into a thorn in their sides. So thanks heaps you dumb-assed CoC enablers/voters – this one’s on you. And why haven’t our media gone in to bat for us? Gutless to the core again – never there for the real, decent Kiwis. So SHAME on the lot of you for your ongoing stupidity and tunnel-visioned apathy. You must see that Seymour will not be satisfied until he has destroyed, or sold off, NZ then he will flee like the coward he is. He was never, and never will be, part Maori, it is just another Seymour CON! Let’s not mention the NZF turn-coat!
Winstone sold us out when he joined with national and act he is stupid old coot that needs to retire
” …The Regulatory Standards Bill puts property rights above human rights by creating a corporate stacked board who will vet all legislation to ensure it doesn’t hurt their profit margin ”
” It’s the most undemocratic legislation passed in NZs history, by enabling corporations to blacklist environmental laws and challenge any taxes ”
Welcome to the your new future sleepy hobbits.
On he bright side no politician will ever have to promise to cut bureaucratic red tape ever again. Our unelected representatives will have done that for them.
Peters could have prevented this and ensured some kind of legacy for himself and his party. But he took the money and like everything else in Aotearoa has been sold out.
New Zealand’s most important asset has just been bought.
Our sovereign democracy.
Kia ora Martyn
Anyone familiar with New Zealand First knows it is called Winston First for good reasons. Maybe just not call it New Zealand First any more.
Kia ora Martyn
Anyone familiar with New Zealand First knows it is called Winston First for good reasons. Maybe just not call it New Zealand First any more.
My cynical crystal ball suddenly spat out a new business card for Career Politician Peters:
“Ambassador Sir Winston DJT Peters”
Similar template to “Sir Key”
Bastards
New Zealanders have known it for a long time, and now the whole world will get to witness what an unprincipled opportunist our Foreign Minster Winston Peters is.
In an effort to show our fealty to the US global hegemon, New Zealand became one of the few countries in the world to refuse to recognise Palestinian statehood.
A US drafted resolution that calls for a pathway to Palestinian statehood is to be put for the vote at the UN Security Council.
If it passes what will our Foreign Minister do?
Will Winston Peters quickly reverse the position he previously held and called principled and courageous, and make a complete fool of himself.
From Haaretz:
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israel-presses-us-to-soften-un-draft-that-references-palestinian-self-determination-statehood/3745383
Netanyahu Reiterates Opposition to Palestinian State Amid Far-right Backlash
Far-right ministers Smotrich and Ben-Gvir urged Netanyahu to clarify his position against Palestinian statehood following the U.S. endorsement of a UN draft resolution that opens a path to a two-state solution
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/israel-presses-us-to-soften-un-draft-that-references-palestinian-self-determination-statehood/3745383
Israel presses the US to soften the wording of an American draft resolution that the UN Security Council is set to vote on Monday, which mentions “self-determination and the establishment of a Palestinian state,” Israeli media reported Sunday.