Waatea News Column: The wealthy are flocking to the anti-Māori rhetoric of ACT
The rich of New Zealand love ACT’s inflammatory anti-Māori rhetoric, the latest donations list show very wealthy Kiwis flocking to ACT’s call to put the Treaty of Waitangi to a referendum to limit Māori Treaty aspirations.
ACT want a new Treaty Principles Law to redefine the courts’ principles of the Treaty based on nothing more than a referendum using ACT negotiating with itself rather than Māori to determine how the Treaty should now be interpreted.
The idea that ACT could negotiate on behalf of Māori as to how the treaty should be interpreted and then take that to a referendum is the sort of race war baiting nonsense Trump likes to inspire.
To see so many wealthy individuals donating cash for this far right race baiting policy is deeply revealing about how frightened rich people in NZ are of Māori being more than indigenous people to steal land from.
ACT recently raised almost a million from the wealthiest of New Zealanders;
Gary Lane $50,000
Chris Meehan $50,000
Graeme Edwards $50,000
Murray Chandler $100,000
John Buchanan $100,000
Mike Thorburn $50,000
Graeme Hart $100,000
Trevor Farmer $100,000
Christopher & Banks $100,000
Nick Mowbray $100,000
Brendan Lindsay $50,000
Peter Vela $50,000
Jenny Gibbs $50,000
This money is on top of a war chest that is reported to be $4million in donations.
The very rich of NZ are donating huge amounts to a far right Party who is promising to implement the most radical cuts to the State since Rodger Douglas while mutilating race relations between Māori and Pakeha.
The 2023 election is shaping up to be the most important of our generation.
First published on Waatea News.
The rich in general are scared of change because they have the most to lose. Its not just about co Governance, it is about all the changes to the existing order.
I see the rich backing Act as the see the unrest being created by the parties on the Left . Unrest leads to a drop in confidence in the economy so effects their bottom line .
“A far right party” that a higher proportion of Maori MPs than any other party except the Maori Party.
So the rich are scared NZers need to see some of these people for who they really are, a bunch of cunts all about themselves not this country and the majority of NZers doing it hard.
Hmmm. Okay, this Julian Batchelor character used to work for the Christian Coalition back in the mid-nineties when it was trying to poleaxe lesbian and gay inclusion in the Human Rights Act and attacking the Human Rights Commission. And the Christian Democrats, ex-Nat MP Graeme Lee’s alternative to the Christian Heritage fringoids, evolved into the Future New Zealand Party, which then attached itself to poor old Peter Dunne until they petulantly stormed out because Peter wouldn’t pander to them over their enthusiasm for giving kids hidings after ruining the United Future brand with their militant fundamentalist routine and then the resultant Kiwi Party got engorged by the New (sic) Conservative folks. The New Conservatives are also anti-Treaty (funny that!) and of course, white nationalist Dieuwe de Boer was their Botany candidate. So is Mr Batchelor therefore a NewConJobster or is this just coincidence? I wonder. Someone should ask the bloke.
Don’t worry Mark they will be gone soon. By the way biting you tongue why don’t you just be diplomatic and say, “I don’t want to hear it “