MEDIAWATCH: No Shane Jones and Heather du Plessis-Allan – You’ve misread the room!
Shane Jones and Heather du Plessis-Allan are claiming that the NZ Left have misread the room and that middle New Zealand are horrified by the anger Māori have expressed over a piece of legislation that 40 Kings council, the Crowns own lawyers and almost every single credible voice has been devastatingly critical of…
Parliament must be a place where law and order – not unlawful disorder – is on display – Shane Jones
Treaty Principles Bill: National and Labour have failed to read the room on hīkoi and Middle NZ reaction – Heather du Plessis-Allan
…no, no, no!
That Haka has been watched 700 million times!
An unprecedented 55 000 turned to protest at Wellington!
It is Shane and Heather who have misread the room!
Blaming Māori for reacting to an appalling piece of legislation is nothing short of victim blaming!
Watching Shane clutching at his Pearls over a Haka when his Party was responsible for passing this abomination is too much of an audacity even for the Jonsey!
As for Heather, you live in New Zealand, not South Africa now Heather. Get with the program.
I’ll see you a Shane Jones and a Heather and raise you a Willie Jackson…
In her latest column, Newstalk ZB host Heather du Plessis-Allan claims Labour has misread the room by supporting the hīkoi because according to her, Labour has lost the middle ground because of the angry scenes inside and outside of Parliament last week.
What a load of nonsense.
This is not just a Māori Party protest.
Everyone, from Labour, the Greens, the unions and every demographic are represented.
Even National supporters who don’t like this bill have come out to denounce it.
What about Chris Finlayson? Does his view count, Heather? He says Act’s appalling legislation is damaging our international reputation.
What about Dame Jenny Shipley? Does her view not count? She says this political stunt is inviting civil war.
Are 40 Kings Counsel not good enough either?
More than 40 Kings Counsel have written to the Prime Minister with “grave concerns” about the bill, or do you and David Seymour know more than everyone else?
This is not on Māoridom or the Opposition, it is on Christopher Luxon for being the weakest Prime Minister in modern history.
Where was the great dealmaker we were promised?
Luxon has been played by Seymour and that is why we are seeing this level of anger and protest.
Throughout my life, I have been part of most Māori protests, stretching back to the 1970s.
What I saw last week was passionate, confrontational, uncomfortable for some and even angry, but ultimately it was peaceful. The haka that broke out in Parliament was entirely appropriate and while it was led by Te Pati Māori it had full support from Labour and the Greens.
If you want to change the Treaty of Waitangi, our founding constitutional document and the notion of partnership, that has had bipartisan support for 50 years – without talking to us – then you are rightly going to get that type of response.
I’m glad Seymour felt uncomfortable. Why? Because that’s how our people feel.
Aotearoa and Parliament have changed considerably. Middle New Zealand is no longer a conservative right-wing person who has a resentment against Māori and immigrants.
Yes, those people are still there but are a minority as the majority now have Māori mokopuna.
The middle New Zealanders I engage with are more culturally aware, they love their kids learning the Māori language and embracing diversity.
They are not Te Pāti Māori members though probably sympathise with some of its views – but wouldn’t agree with rhetoric about separate parliaments and revolutions.
They are comfortable with Labour and previously National’s position on partnership and want Māori and Pākehā working in harmony for the benefit of this nation.
You see, it’s not about whether Labour can “out-Māori” the Māori Party, they will do what they do, which at times will be seen as radical but has appeal to younger voters.
It’s about showing New Zealand that a mainstream party like Labour can also support the fight against the Treaty Principles Bill, not because we are signed up and sworn supporters of Te Pāti Māori, but because we believe in justice for all New Zealanders and the Treaty principles that we have progressed since 1987.
…the Right are panicking, they have bitten off way more than they can chew – 55 000 are in Wellington protesting the target Hikoi ever witnessed in this land and they are trashing around trying to make the backlash look dangerous to middle New Zealand when it’s really Luxon’s incompetence and weakness that has led us here.
It is National, ACT and NZF who are misreading the room and driving middle voters back to Labour!
We wouldn’t be having this needless fight if National had some backbone, they don’t and that’s why they are getting it coming back and biting them in the bum!
If every sports team who faces us can respect the Haka and observe it, why can’t the ACT Party?
Why is ACT more of an easily triggered snowflake than every single Sports Team we play against?
Isn’t it funny how the great big bad champions of free speech freak out when they get some free speech up them?
Dame Jenny Shipley says ACT is inviting a race war.
Chris Finlayson is saying ACT have damaged our global reputation for race relations.
40 King Council’s are warning the Government not to do this.
The Waitangi Tribunal says it will be the worst piece of legislation ever.
So don’t dare pretend this is ‘just-a-debate’, it’s a far right ideological war, and the front line is everywhere.
Yesterday 55 000 descended upon Parliament in the largest ever protest against this appalling legislation and it won’t stop there.
I warned and warned and warned on this very blog that this legislation would start conflict, brew divisiveness and generate a backlash that will sit this Government on its arse!
Well, you reap what you sow.
Ake Ake Ake.
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Heather DA is a just a hack. Why would anyone put value in her usually misguided opinion. Her comments on Pacific peoples in NZ showed she didn’t have a clue what is was banging on about.
another ignorant imigrant trying to push the shit from the home land onto NZ .
Well, look at her taste in men.
yes a very good point she must be fucken desperate
Shane Jones thinks Parliament must be about law and order. Of course once you step outside the doors brown paper bags full of cash from interested parties is totally ok.
Parliament is not being used for law and order. It is being used for Seymour’s little corporate sponsored pantomime that won’t become a law at all.
HDPA misread the room when she married her right wing sugar daddy.
She of all people should know what it’s like to have a government party coalition partner wanting to run it’s country under apartheid law. Perhaps she enjoys it.
i SAW A PICTURE OF jONES STANDING ON HIS OWN QUIETLY THINKING OH FUCK WHAT HAVE WE STARTED HERE .Yes porky the whanau are getting sick of your bull shit and you need to remember none of your party were elected you rode the coat tails of Luxon .
More supporters than ACT and the River of filth party in total at the last election
Shane Jones the Porn King should stick to things he’s good at and politics isn’t it.
Masturbation Jones and the others are not going to win this one. When Iwi, pākehā and tau iwi unite, the ruling class better look out.
The rights idea of mass protest is driving a few utes and tractors around while calling a centrist PM “Stalinist” what the…COVID was a blessing for the right–but without lockdowns there is not much for their motley crew to latch on to. Right wingers and reactionaries are essentially gutless–they don’t like to emerge from their cosy homes too often.
More tax payer dollars spent on a wank
It is all very odd.
In Parliament Russell Norman shows a Tibetan flag to a visiting Chinese official and is immediately manhandled by thugs employed by a despotic Chinese state.
Result = Government apologises. Minimal public reaction. Fuck all is said about disorder by foreign agents .
Hana performs haka in response to a bill that the National Party admits is a waste of time and money.
OUTRAGE!
Do you suppose it is because she is a young, Maori woman?
yep