Winston Peter’s double downs on Maori electorate race baiting – less the Emperor has no clothes and more Grandad has forgotten his robe

ByMartyn Bradbury

Hush my mouth, hot on the heels of rumours that Winston was backing down on his racist Maori Electorate referendum dog whistle, dear old Winnie has doubled down on his racist dog whistle…

Winston Peters dismisses flip-flop and says all Kiwis will vote on whether Maori seats should be abolished

A vote on a referendum to abolish the Maori seats will be for everyone “regardless of race”, says Winston Peters.

The NZ First leader has ruled out only those on the Maori roll voting in a referendum on whether to keep the seven Maori seats – a bottom-line policy announced at the weekend.

Peters said he made it “very clear” in his speech to party supporters on Sunday that this is a “vote for everybody who is over 18 years of age, who is entitled to be on the New Zealand electoral roll regardless of race”.

…that’s right folks, 85% of the population is going to decide the electoral powers of the indigenous 15%.

This isn’t democracy, it’s two hungry wolves and a lamb voting on who’s for lunch.

So what Winston is saying is that despite all his lies about the Maori electorates, he is serious about playing up to the petty bigotries of his target voters even if that means direct confrontation with Maori.

Winston is showing us all that even when caught out by his own provincial pakeha fairytales about Maori,  he’s so hell bent on being Prime Minister that he’ll tip the country into civil unrest to get it.

That’s attractive in a Game of Thrones character, not so much to be the Prime Minister of a liberal democracy.

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20 Comments

  1. Winston Peters plays to and appeals to the bigots in NZ. His mentor Muldoon taught his protege` well, when it comes to divisive tactics!

  2. PS: I think you should drop the ageist slurs against Winston Peters.

    Penny Bright.

      1. Oh dear. NZ First supporters upset that their Fearless Leader is not being respected.

        Do we doff our caps to The Leader as well? (I suppose a stiff arm salute is optional?)

  3. Seen THIS Martyn?

    Any other NZ political party leaders talking about taking on the Aussie banks?

    https://www.interest.co.nz/business/88672/nz-firsts-winston-peters-blames-subservient-puppetized-nz-politicians-lack-probe-nz

    “NZ First’s Winston Peters blames ‘subservient puppetized NZ politicians’ for the lack of a probe into the NZ banking system.

    Says Aussie banks are ‘like a hole in the hull of the NZ economy’.”

    #ThinkForYourself
    #SeekTruthFromFacts

  4. This must surely rule him out of a coalition with Labour as Labour would never accept this as a bottom line. Essentially a vote of NZ First is now a vote for National

  5. I can’t see how New Zealand First can be in coalition with any other party than National, now that it has made a referendum one of its core electoral platforms. Neither Labour nor the Greens would accept such a referendum.

  6. “…that’s right folks, 85% of the population is going to decide the electoral powers of the indigenous 15%”

    To be fair, this is factually how democracy works (and the only way it can work). We all have to stomach whatever the “popular vote” produces. See Donald Trump.
    It’s a key reason why I don’t really subscribe to democracy any more. IMO it’s a system designed BY the elites FOR the elites that is generally nothing but a false “left”, “right” or “center” choice (usually defined by meaningless pandering to voters via various “wedge issues”) and so ensuring said elites aren’t hung from lamp posts every so often in the revolutions we deserve (and crave?).

    1. there is no peaceable alternative to democracy…one person one vote.

      …and people can be persuaded for good or ill

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