The real Cook Island questions Winston wont answer
Another brilliant column by Lloyd Burr…
Winston Peters’ adviser tells media to ask ‘questions that aren’t about politics’
It’s not often reporters are told not to ask any political questions when they’re at a press conference with two politicians. But that’s exactly what happened with Winston Peters at the 60th anniversary of the Cook Islands-NZ relationship.
…Lloyd Burr has quickly become one of my favourite journalists. His intelligence, his humour, his biting commentary, he has truly blossomed over at Stuff in a way few Newshub journalists have managed.
Here are the real Cook Island questions Winston won’t answer.
I was the ONLY blogger and I think I was the only one who was yelling about all of this in 2024 but no one seemed to understand the danger.
This was me, April 16th, 2024…
I said that Winston had failed us as a foreign minister because the first thing he did when becoming Foreign Minister was to allow America to encroach into our Realm…
US to open embassies in the Cook Islands, Niue
Announcement comes as US President Joe Biden prepares to host a second summit with Pacific Island leaders in Washington DC.
…why are we allowing the Realm of NZ to be encroached upon by the Americans?
Surely our job as an independent voice in the pacific is to protect our Pacific Neighbours in ensuring their agency over the interests of Washington and Beijing, especially when that pacific Neighbour is part of our Realm!
America has encroached into our Realm and neither Winston or Judith will criticise this encroachment because both are thralls of the American Military Industrial Complex!
They are both so keen to show America our subservience and acquiescence to whatever new war they want to drag us into, Judith and Winston will invite us themselves!
…what ended up happening after we allowed the fucking Americans to encroach directly into our Realm and declare Niue and the Cooks as Independent states with no relationship with NZ?
Why the Prime Minister of the Cooks took that declaration by the Americans to negotiate a deal with China that we knew nothing about!
We allowed America to redefine the relationship last year and the Cooks PM, Mark Brown, decided to take that redefinition and negotiate a deal with China.
It opens questions about why Mark Brown has signed this secret deal and whether he has been bribed by Chinese interests.
NZ got played by America last year and the result has been China encroaching directly into our Realm!
Ask Winston about how MFAT fucked this up!
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Peters was his typical ‘total dickhead’ self answering questions in that interview. He invariably acts like a complete wanker to distract from having had a hand, once again, in another botch up.
Just shows how out of touch these people have become .So busy bashing his own iwi at home he forgot about looking out for the neigbors .First he let the USA take over then China has stepped in with its soft diplomacy and has now become the front runner .Winstons Maori bashing rampage is failing all Pacific peoples .Instead of being out there helping them tackle the drug invasion and helping build better economies etc he did a whistle stop tour early in the current term,spouting bull shit how great we are at looking out for them .In reality we treat them as a supply of cheap labor to be exploited by our industry .
Their drug problem is fast becoming our drug problem .
Luxon has clearly found it too hard to go to the cooks and work out a solution so he is now sucking up else where pretending that we are the best to look out for them .We will be exploiting people from Papua next .
Due to the poor work effort of this government the Pacific will soon be a basket case and China will be wellcomed with open arms .