WAATEA NEWS COLUMN: Regulatory Standards Bill a disaster for Māori and every Kiwi
It is difficult to underplay what an enormous abuse of power to the interests of every New Zealander that the Regulatory Standards Bill represents to Māori and every New Zealander.
I believe that the last election was dominated by voters who felt an intense post Covid Bitterness that was directed at Jacinda Ardern for having the temerity to save 20,000 lives from a once in a century pandemic.
Thus misplaced fury saw Kiwis elect a Government consisting of National, ACT and NZFirst without truly appreciating the fine print.
Chris Luxon was portrayed as a great deal maker, but the deal he ended up making with David Seymour and Winston Peters saw deeply unpopular and reactionary policy pushed at the expense of the common good.
The Regulatory Standards Bill was one such policy.
Rejected by 98% of those who submitted against it, the Regulatory Standards Bill allows for the creation of a taxpayer funded Board of corporate interests to vet all legislation to ensure it doesn’t impinge upon the profits of the ultra wealthy.
It is an law that uses a very narrow libertarian definition of freedom to place property rights above human rights.
It bypasses the obligations of the Treaty and environmental concerns to ensure the ultra wealthy will always ensure their interests are paramount when it comes to passing laws.
This is an obscenity.
We elect representatives from our communities as politicians to pass laws based on their values and their principles, allowing unelected corporate interests to inject themselves into the decision making process to undermine those laws is the very antithesis of democracy.
There is a reason Labour, the Greens and te Pati Māori have all stepped up and said that this law will be the first they burn if they win power next year, because it undermines the very values of our democracy to enable big business.
Democracy should be for the people, by the people and in the interests of the people, The Regulatory Standards Bill turns New Zealand into a country for Big Business, dictated to by Big Business, in the interests of Big Business.
The passing of this law is a bleak day in our Country.
The RSB is not just a disaster, it is a Personal Insult to every decent Nzer! Any law that affects us all, but is passed without consultation with us, is a bullying and despotic ‘Act’. How this horribly corrupt CoC can treat its people with such disdain and hate is astounding – not even the courtesy of involving us, just riding rough-shod over our democratic rights. Again where in the hell did they come from – I think the sewers is being too kind, maybe spawned from Satan. How does an 8%er bring in such an obnoxious piece of Sh&t legislation that the majority of us oppose? The Left need to sort this immediately they get in and all new legislation needs to have a MINIMUM of 51% support. I have to wonder what Seymour is getting for this? Whatever, if his current enablers have any moral fortitude he and his party should be finished. If you are still supporting them, then you are a major contributor to this insidious piece of Cr&p. If Winston can help rescind this, then thanks Winnie, but what do you want in exchange??
All I wanna say is that they don’t really care about us
YES another piece of shit from the 6% party .The 8% party could have sunk this on day one of the first reading by voting against it ,but the potatoe Maori Winston sucked the kumara and went with his pakeha insides .