ACT aren’t even bothering to appear at their own Treaty Referendum Bill fiasco
This is unbelievable…
ACT taps out of Treaty Principles Bill submission process – Labour
“It is bad enough that ACT has put New Zealand through the expense and anguish of this doomed Bill, but to then refuse to hear oral submissions is utterly disrespectful, lazy, and it shows that this is all just a stunt by David Seymour.
“It is outrageous that $6 million of the taxpayer’s money is being misused to promote ACT Party ideology, while Christopher Luxon stands idly by. For the ACT Party to refuse to send an MP to hear 30 of the 80 hours of submissions just adds insult to injury.
“Thousands of New Zealanders have spent hours carefully preparing their submissions and some have been invited to submit to the select committee. Those submitters deserve to have the ACT Party listen to what they have to say. The ACT Party’s suggestion that they have more important things to do is insulting and disingenuous,” Duncan Webb said.
…how dare ACT not even bother putting an MP forward to hear the oral submissions from the Bill THAT THEY THEMSELVES HAVE PUT FORWARD!
Nothing highlights the bad faith nature of this supposed process than not even bothering to turn up and then claiming ‘they have better urgings to do’ when challenged on why they aren’t appearing to hear the debate that they themselves have started!
This is the true hypocrisy in all of this – ACT never attempted a good faith debate, it was always a bad faith shit fight to excite the rednecks, this has never been about a genuine discussion on the constitutional arrangements of NZ, this was always a cross burning banjo twanging fuckwit jamboree intent on only race baiting.
That they won’t even turn up and hear submissions to their own bill cements into place that this was and always has been a bad faith stunt.
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Most of the blame falls on Luxon. First he was too weak to say no to the Principles bill then he reduces it to a stunt by declaring it dead in the water without even seeing one word of what it might contain.
Part of ACT/Atlas playbook is to control the narrative–as evidenced also by the Workplace Relations Minister’s refusal to meet the NZCTU the working class national union body. It is the procedural equivalent of sticking fingers in ears–not listening so dissenting and other views are not happening.
This is ideological struggle which often enough the neo libs and other right forces win due to higher resources, media control including online, and devious tactics. Exhibit A–“3 Waters”, that was canned but the crumbling infrastructure and health issues are still there across NZ, down the road from me at Kaeo in Northland, they have had boil water notices in place for 10 years! People have put in rain water collection and or buy bottled water.
It is outrageous that ACT will not front up to get their medicine from the people at a sub committee. The white supremacists, and corporates gunning for Māori intellectual property and environmental guardian role just want their plan imposed not an actual discussion.
I notice councils are now scrambling to get on the 3 waters band wagon and some are going even further ,wanting to amalgamate several councils into one .Had Minister Mahuta been an over weight white male there would have been no comment about 3 waters .Any opposition to it was pure racisim and the result is now much higher costs .
With the drop in interest rates still closer to 6% rather than below 5% as one ignorant Krautus predicted and the subsequent loss of votes for the right bloc, Seymours party are guaranteeing this is a one term Coalition of chaos.
Low interest rates are the symptom of a poor performing economy .
It’s like politicians ordering healthy communities to quarantine at home while they go out and party. When you don’t believe your own policy then what you are saying is worthless.
When 300,000 submissions are boiled down to just 480 to be heard before the Committee, AND Julian Batchelor makes that tiny 480 , you know something STINKS.
If ACT themselves think there’s more important things to worry about then clearly this bill can be thrown out