Clearly Simon is feeling safe in his position after the TVNZ poll to get back to doing what National Party leaders do best, being race baiting dogs.
If you were angry that Massey University denied Don Brash a space to talk race relations, you should be incandescent with rage that AUT has bowed so gutlessly to our Chinese Overlords.
Labour fear what is happening at Ihumātao because it crosses that most sacred of NZ lies, that we have great race relations.
Either the minister was being disingenuous or his department has sabotaged his genuine offer of help.
Which is it, Iain?
IHUMATAO’s intersectional celebrations, dubbed derisively as “Wokestock” by right-wing commentator, Matthew Hooton, are being watched by unfriendly eyes. The Settler Nation has zero tolerance for the politics of radical decolonisation.
Never before have such a wide range of issues with Māori at their centre erupted all at the same time, and in each case the rotten unfulfilled promises of the sovereignty promised under the Treaty is the root disease for each symptom.
The question every political pundit has been asking since last months surprise TVNZ and Newshub Polls ( which both told…
Does anyone think that the forced removal of protestors from a scared historic site that is in dispute with the indigenous people would result in anything other than violence?
Angry Chinese residents full of nationalistic fever + indignant Hong Kong students + shocked Kiwis + politicians too wedded to our Chinese Overlords to say anything critical = explosion.
The surprising flashpoint that is Ihumātao was a perfect moment for Hone to make his re-entry, bringing with him authenticity, straight talking, staunch. Back on the scene speaking to the dispossessed, disenfranchised, disappointed. I hope we can hear more of him as we get nearer to the election.