GUEST BLOG: Willie Jackson – MĀORI PARTY’S WATER POLICY NONSENSE
Over the last 9 years, I have given my mates in the Māori Party the benefit of the doubt that while they had little to show Māori for supporting National, they were trying to do the best they could.
Their latest attack on Labour’s courageous stance on water however shows very clearly that they are either running a strategy against us with their National Party mates or are just plain stupid.
The Māori Party have distorted and twisted our water policy so badly it sounds like National are writing their press releases. Te Ururoa claims our water policy is arrogant because we haven’t spoken to Hapū, Iwi and Maori.
What rubbish!
The Labour Party Māori Caucus are talking to Hapū, Iwi and Māori every day of the week. We have heard our people’s concerns about water and we have listened!
If Labour have the privilege of leading the next Government, we will begin a formal round table meeting with Hapū, Iwi and Māori plus all those interested in water to discuss how we can preserve, protect, replenish and clean up our rivers and lakes.
David Parker who is doing an excellent job and Jacinda have already given that commitment.
Te Ururoa goes as far as to suggest Labour’s water policy shows we can’t be trusted to protect Māori interests!
What a load of rot, obviously Tamati Coffey’s rise in Waiariki has spooked the ‘Great Shark’ into being a National Party cheerleader.
Labour’s water policy makes sure polluters must pay, charges bottling companies and respects the mana and dignity of Māori. This shows that Labour have learned from their Foreshore and Seabed fiasco and that they are actually listening to their Māori Caucus and the concerns of Te Iwi Māori.
Every settlement with Iwi includes a clause stating that fresh water remains unresolved, yet Chris Finlayson is out blowing racist dog whistles pretending that this reopens Treaty litigation. We wouldn’t be in this position in the first place if National hadn’t forced the issue by selling off half our hydropower generating energy companies. Labour will clean up their mess by showing real leadership with all stakeholders in water.
After 9 long years of doing nothing about water under National, the Māori Party having the cheek to attack Labour’s solution tells me they will say anything to stay in power with National. David Parker on Q and A was clear that Labour will settle the water treaty claim and follow the directions and recommendations given by the Waitangi Tribunal and the High court.
We should be proud that a major party has shown such courage, and the Māori Party need to stop playing their games with National otherwise they risk no longer being seen as a serious player in NZ politics.
You are right Willie.
This shows Findlayson in a very poor light.
Tamati Coffey is doing great, so yes Flavell should sweat.
On every local issue, Tamati has shown Flavell up.
National have started to gift things to the region … real scared.
Dunne is very at risk, and Tamati is a real threat to Flavell.
Thanks to Andrew Little’s excellent choices, we are taking away two of National’s props and they are worried, so will get nasty.
Te Ururoa is slowly turning into a really bad sequal of Winston – They’re just talking sweet nothings like Whanau Ora and TPK does something except wast hundreds of millions of dollars on? I’m not even sure about what they do except cover for Te Ururoa.
I watched this interesting conversation between someone from TPK talking about the Te Ture true as bro reforms to an interested person seeking clarification. The amount of bullshit spoken that day was enough to build the future maori land service. When I commented that there was some hundred million was set aside treasury and this was the secound attempt to put in a business case that unlocks the money, I was accused of running some kind of smear campaign.
I’m just gana say it. TPK is a propaganda machine. What little they do do is just for shits and giggles.
Bloody right Willie,
fully behind you on this as we need our nation to have sovereign right to who uses the water for the good of all and not global water traders!!!!!
Te Ururoa Flavell needs a kick up the proverbial backside. Recently he was asked by a journalist how come we have such high rates of homelessness to which he replied quote “I don’t know how this happened” Now what sort of an answer is this to such an important issues has he been walking around with his eyes and ears closed or are they just painted on. Rotorua apparently has the 2nd highest rate of homelessness this is his f…n. electoral area. I think our people need to stop voting for him.
Did the interviewer then ask..How can that be that you dont know Mr Flavell when the Maori party took part in the inquiry into homelessness led by Labour and Greens last year because the National govt refused point blank to do? Did the interviewer remind Flavell of this “Maori Party co-leader Marama Fox said Deputy Prime Minister Bill English had told her the Government would consider implementing any new recommendations from the inquiry, and she hoped he would be true to his word.”http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/85147550/Govt-must-find-political-will-to-tackle-homelessness-cross-party-inquiry or this “However, Maori Party co-leader Marama Fox says not enough is being done. “Kiwis in this country do not want to live in a country where our people sleep in cars, where our people sleep on benches. “This is not the New Zealand that we were brought up in, that we’ve grown up in, and this is not the New Zealand that we want our children to grow up in.” http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/83941349/kiwi-mother-of-five-shares-struggle-with-homelessness-after-addressing-mps so no excuses no denials its too damned late for Flavell’s lies and bullshit, he knows so does Fox, too late for the Maori party that has sat at National’s table for the past 9 years for the part they have actively played in making many get swallowed up in poverty and homelessness.
Agree with you Louis and I’m angry the Maori king my close relative and his greedy cousin Tuku underpants Morgan another close relative (unfortunately from Kawhia) are spending our tribes money for political gain to keep the Maori Party in power when they have been shitting on their own people. Lets hope our Maori people give them the one finger salute and a haere ra on your bike you bunch of crooks
With you there Michelle, couldn’t agree with you more!
Clean green pure NZ ? A picture is worth a thousand words in this story.
When it comes to our water quality, National ignore
increasing deterioration because they fear the reprise of their farming mates [ Water charges, Oh no]
It was inexcusable to sell our energy assets to set up a large fund irrigation
fund to favour /bribe farmers with.
Clean green pure NZ ? A picture is worth a thousand words in this story.
When it comes to our water quality, National ignore
increasing deterioration because they fear the reprise of their farming mates [ Water charges, Oh no]
It was inexcusable to sell our energy assets to set up a large fund irrigation
fund to favour /bribe farmers with.
We need to adopt the policy of user pays ?
Setting a price doesn’t indicate scarcity to the markets when the water ways are already tapped out but it does have something to do with creating a useful set of property rights.
The arguments about who owns water is divisive and dividing is happening as various groups fall into the trap.
Once well divided then any ownership will end up on the path to privatising water.
A very different model is needed.
Joe brown and joe white born on the same day in 2017 should have equal access to water for personal use and survival.
Water has to belong to everyone and be protected from commercial exploitation by regulation. When allowed to be used commercially and levied, those levies must be paid to a govt body and applied to environmental repair of past stupidities.
Because helping the maximum number of people live in minimum conditions (as in minimum humanitarian standards met) at minimum cost is not the main and only goal here.
We only really started systematically fixing these types of messes from the 90’s – remember algal bloom and didymo? -, and there’s still plenty of shit going on. Depending on what your stance on global warming is you could argue that we are killing the entirety of human civilization right the fuck now, as we speak. You can’t really go step 1: Water treatment plants EVERYWHERE and not make money.
Some times you have to take out a blank piece of paper and say how do I design the solution to the problem with in the environmental context and start from there.
Beware of such a simplistic move becoming privatisation of water.
Regulation of water is needed.