Waatea News Column: Marama and Debbie shine in Powerbrokers debate
TV3s Powerbrokers debate last night saw Marama Davidson, Debbie Ngarewa-Packer, Winston Peters and David Seymour face off in a tense debate that showed just how difficult it will be for David and Winston to work together.
It was easily the best debate to date and the strongest performance by Marama and Debbie in the election so far.
David struggled to outline how his bottom line referendum on the Treaty would work with National and while Winston had some moments, his solutions never sounded reasonable.
For example, his plan to designate all Gang Members as Domestic Terrorists seems like a recipe for a Police State rather than functioning democracy.
Debbie had the line of the night with her ‘Tough on crime, soft on crime’ criticism of ACT and National law and order policy.
When you consider that National want ankle bracelets on 10 year olds, ACT want them in 11 year olds and Labour want them on 12 year olds, Green and TPM law and order solutions are far more rational and focused on solutions than kneejerks.
Marama and Debbie had better answers, better criticisms and better policy than David and Winston, despite David and Winston speaking longer than them!
After a fairly dreary First Leaders Debate, this Powerbrokers debate held hope that there could be genuine transformative change if Labour + Greens + TPM held a 51% majority.
Congratulations to host Rebecca Wright and the Newshub Team.
First published on Waatea News.
There was a force of good that was hard to pin point emanating from Marama and Debbie…
They were right on their game, spoke the language that only deep thinkers can speak and did not need rehearsed lines.
I felt no such force at all coming from Seymour and Winston. .
I just saw stupidity and heard their tired old rehearsed lines.
No wonder Seymour lost the audience and, well, i think Winston has had his day…
Time to retire both him and his horse…back on the range with ya!
Luxon, with his over rehearsed corny lines, weird hand gestures, glib wanky corporate talk and no substance is of the same ilk……. it would be a terrible outcome for N.Z. if they got in.
Can people be that deluded, that shortsighted and that ignorant that they seriously want anyone of those 3 in power!!
There was a force of good that was hard to pin point emanating from Marama and Debbie…
They were right on their game, spoke the language that only deep thinkers can speak and did not need rehearsed lines.
I felt no such force at all coming from Seymour and Winston. .
I just saw stupidity and heard their tired old rehearsed lines.
No wonder Seymour lost the audience and, well, i think Winston has had his day…
Time to retire both him and his horse…back on the range with ya!
Luxon, with his over rehearsed corny lines, weird hand gestures, glib wanky corporate talk and no substance is of the same ilk……. it would be a terrible outcome for N.Z. if they got in.
Can people be that deluded, that shortsighted and that ignorant that they seriously want anyone of those 3 in power!!
Yeah they sure did shine the spotlight on their Communist tendencies and the total lack of gravitas in the shambles which is our parliament.
Maramas “all violence in the world is committed by white cis (sic) males” comment should have seen her disqualified from holding public office for gross misrepresentation of the truth.
Slightly better than the dictatorship, neoliberal tendencies of Seymour and Peters, what a clusterfuck they were. So looking for them bringing their shambles to parliament.
Wasn’t the ‘line of the night’ – “tough on crime, soft on poverty’? from Debbie N-P?
An uncomfortable truth for the Right.