The privileges committee recently recommended that the leaders of the Maori Party be suspended for 21 days and their MP Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke be suspended for 7 days. These suspensions were recommended as a result of their antics in the house at the first reading of the Treaty Principles Bill.
They should be entitled to disagree with the Bill but the manner in which they decided to show their opposition was totally disrespectful of the rules and customs of our parliament and showed the level of disdain the Maori Party hold for Parliament and for all of us.
For this reason, combined with past comments and disruptive behaviour they have rightfully earned their penalties. Their whole bearing and attitude in the house shows a blatantly extreme racism. Their whole focus seems to be on the promotion of division on the basis of ethnicity and trying to end democracy in New Zealand.
Our system of governance is based on EQUALITY of all citizens regardless of race colour or creed yet if we take the example set by the Maori Party you would think that Maori have more rights than all other races in New Zealand.
With their hateful rhetoric and disruptive antics they have demonstrated that Maori seats have become the home of the most extreme race activists.
Let’s be blatantly clear about how they got to be in parliament, they were elected on the basis of the race based Maori electorates.
They claim to represent the views of Maori in New Zealand but in actual fact they only managed to gain 2.8% of the total vote across the whole election and yet the total Maori population of New Zealand is approximately 13.5 % of registered voters.
If they did not have the luxury of standing in the Maori only electorates they would not have even reached parliament yet we are paying these muppets to sit in the house spouting their victimhood viewpoint regards colonisation and racist rhetoric against all white people.
Maori seats were introduced in 1867 because at that time only men who owned property in their own name were allowed to vote. Because most Maori-owned land was owned communally, almost no Maori men got a vote. After 1867, all Maori men got the vote, whether they owned property or not.
Maori seats were introduced to provide specific representation for Maori in Parliament; however, in modern-day New Zealand, the current system of separate representation is divisive and no longer serves the true spirit of equality for all New Zealanders.
The reality is that Parliament’s Maori seats, established in 1867, have now been weaponised to undermine and destroy democracy as we know it. The Maori Party’s aim is to deliver tribal rule through a radical agenda of constitutional transformation.
Every New Zealander, regardless of their race or ancestry, should have equal access to political representation.
The Maori Party are not representative of Maori as a whole; they are only representative of those who voted for them. 2.8% of the total voters.
The Maori Party’s obsession with race needs to come to an end, and they should take serious note of William Hobson’s advice at Waitangi: He iwi tahi tatou - We are now one people. But of course these muppets don’t want a bar of that; they are focused on getting control at any cost.
Maori people in general don’t necessarily need the Maori Party to have representation in our parliament; if you look at the current list of MP’s in parliament you will see that 33 of them are Maori.
Why should the taxpayers have to shell out approximately 1.5 million dollars in salaries alone for these muppets to sit in the house promoting racial division, and regularly refusing to comply with the rules of the house?
What improved outcomes have they managed to achieve for their people during their time in the house; Zero!
The Maori Party policies include the following:
* Establish a Maori Parliament
* Implement all Matike Mai recommendations for constitutional transformation
* Remove the British Royal Family as Head of State
* Recognise Aotearoa as the country’s official name
* Replace all Pakeha place names, cities and towns to original Maori names by 2026.
* Return the foreshore and seabed to mana whenua
* Return all central and local government land to mana whenua
* Return all conservation land to mana whenua
* Introduce a first right of refusal policy for mana whenua on all private land
* Make all Waitangi Tribunal recommendations binding on the Crown
* Abolish ‘full and final’ settlement policies
* Entrench the Maori electorates
* Legislate for all councils to have both Maori wards and mana whenua representation.”
And these are just a small number of their policies which are listed on their website.
Given their poor behaviour in the house coupled with their extreme race based policies as shown in the above example there is a very good argument to be made to abolish the Maori seats as was recommended by the Royal Commission on the Electoral System in 1986.
The Commission specifically recommended that, if New Zealand adopted the MMP system, there would no longer be any need for separate Māori electorates and given the number of Maori in the current parliament that won seats in their own right, this claim is well proven.
Whether they won an electorate seat or worked their way up their party list, they did not need a special seat reserved for them because of their race.
Most New Zealanders, I am sure, would look at what these muppets in the Maori Party have done with their stunts and their defiance of the rules and agree that time is up for Māori seats.
If these muppets truly belong in parliament then they should be able to win a seat in the general election on their merit and not rely on their ethnicity to guarantee them a ride on the gravy train.
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By Andy Loader, Poke the Bear