Why?

Why?

Why didn’t we get the same action from our Prime Minister as America received from Donald Trump?

I was reading an article about Trump’s first 100 days in office as President of USA and the article detailed what the media in USA refused to admit.

This article effectively changes everything people thought they knew about Trump's second term.

In just 100 days, Trump shut down the border which the so-called experts said was impossible and essentially 97. 98% of the border is secure. There is no open border now. He just did it, just got it done.

He completely transformed America’s energy strategy. The Green New Deal is gone. The electric vehicle mandates gone and instead of wasting billions on failed climate fantasies, Trump is tapping back into the energy sources that made America strong.

Clean coal is being revived. Fracking is expanding. Oil and gas fields are being reopened. And America is once again exporting LNG to Europe, which desperately needs it.

Instead of dancing around the DEI issue, Trump simply ended it. This was the issue no one dared to confront. But Trump didn’t hesitate.

He pointed to a Supreme Court ruling that declared race-based admissions at Harvard and UNC unconstitutional and used that momentum to wipe DEI from federal agencies and push back against its corporate grip.

On the economy, Trump has shattered expectations and flipped the global trade order on its head.

Everybody said he wiped out the stock market because he insisted on not just free trade, but fair trade, and they mocked him for taking on China. Now the world is lining up to make deals.

He said he was going to sanction China. And he did. Now all of a sudden he has 70 countries trying to negotiate.

It has been said that Trump’s first 100 days have been revolutionary. Not since Reagan or FDR has a president driven this much change in so little time.

No one thought Trump would be so successful in the first hundred days.

Whether or not you support Donald Trump or whether you like his policies or not, you cannot deny that he has done those things that he promised he would do during his election campaign.

He won the election by a landslide because the people of America wanted change from the failed policies of the last government and they believed his promises.

Like him or hate him he fulfilled his pre-election promises!

The current coalition government was elected on the basis of change from the policies of the previous Labour government.

Our Prime Minister campaigned on policies for change; he promised New Zealand that if he got elected he would dump co-governance and remove ethnic requirements from legislation, but he seems to have backed away from that position.

Attempts to racialise New Zealand, is provoking significant public complaint. Government has a duty to uphold the Rule of Law and protect the democratic rights of all New Zealanders.

 And yet, here we are: using race-based politics and reinvented Treaty theology to alter the democratic systems which we have always stood on. It’s not a brave attempt to implement some erroneous interpretation of the Treaty of Waitangi, it’s not being bicultural; IT’S BLINDINGLY STUPID.

New Zealand is fast becoming a textbook case in how to get it wrong; how to destroy a democratic system of government and eliminate any semblance of equality for all citizens.

Government debt leapt up by almost $120 billion between 2019 and 2024…That amounts to $22,000 more in debt for every New Zealander.

New Zealand’s net core Crown debt, which once hovered between five and 25 per cent of GDP, rose to around 42 per cent last year.

The interest bill on government debt has soared from $3.6 billion in 2014 to $8.9 billion last year. That sum is more than annual core Crown expenses for the Police, Corrections, the Ministry of Justice, Customs and the Defence Force combined”.

That level of borrowing obviously can’t go on forever.

Historically National has pledged to keep government spending at less than 30% of GDP. Spending is currently over 10% higher at 33.9%.

With the recent defeat of the Treaty Principles Bill, parliament with the exception of the ACT Party’s MPs, voted to reject both the principle that our democratically elected Parliament is sovereign and the principle that all New Zealand citizens have the same equal status before the law. The Prime Minister has specifically stated that there was nothing in the Bill that he supported.

We have operated under a system of democracy which has been based on the principle that all persons are equal in the eyes of the law and entitled to equality in the political and governmental processes but now we have this section of the population which to divide the country based on ethnicity.

If we are to have unity/equality it won’t be through Co-Governance. Co-governance doesn’t unite us—it divides, inflames, and festers. We don’t need more committees and cultural vetoes; all we need is one law for all.

Against a backdrop of this high-profile push for co-governance, it is easy to overlook the positive statistics.

For example, 64 percent of Maori are employed as compared to the employment rate for all New Zealanders, of 68.4%. In excess of 400,000 Maori have jobs, provide products and services and pay tax and 97 percent of Maori aged 15 or older are not in prison or serving a community sentence or order. Over 99 percent of Maori are not gang members.

Yes there is a small number of the Maori population which create a huge number of problems by way of their personal choices in relation to their way of living and their attitude to the law of the land, and this affects the Maori population in general by influencing public opinion.

But it must be stated that the fact that although this small number are very much over represented in the criminal statistics and in the prison populations, this is not as a result of racism but a result of their own poor lifestyle choices.

When we study the claims of institutionalised racism within New Zealand, we find that in most cases the answer lies with the personal choices of those involved and the effects resulting from those personal choices.

This is backed up by the statistics that show that the vast majority of Maori are employed in jobs that provide products and services, pay tax, are not in prison or serving a community sentence or order, and are not gang members.

New Zealand has had a democratic system of government that is the oldest in the world, going back to the emancipation of women under the suffragette movement when they were granted the inalienable right to vote regardless of colour or gender in 1893.

On 19 September 1893, Governor Lord Glasgow signed a new Electoral Act into law, and New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world to enshrine in law the right for women to vote in parliamentary elections.

Yet here we are currently, with the Maori Party, and the self-appointed so-called tribal elite of Iwi trying to go back and reinstate a system of race based governance

But there can be no mature discussion about our future as a country until everybody accepts that the Treaty provided for the government to have final authority, with all citizens - no matter their ancestry - having equal rights.

Our Coalition Government made many promises from the constituent parties, (both before and after the election) that they would make every effort to eliminate racial preferences from government decision making, in a commitment to equal citizenship under New Zealand’s democratic system of government. 

Yet we still see groups lobbying for Maori supremacy in most areas of government and whilst I agree with the principle of the Iwi being able to have input or engagement this should never be achieved by way of race based statutory obligations.

Iwi, along with the other 190 odd ethnic groups within NZ society, should have an equal right to representation but this right in no way should ever give them a greater level of representation than any other ethnic group. To do so would be akin to implementing a system of apartheid, a system of government that NZ’s have fought against for many years.

By discriminating against people on the basis of race, gender and sexuality, it dangerously undermines New Zealanders’ right to equality before the law.

But instead of stepping up and dealing with these growing concerns, the PM and his coalition government continue to turn a blind eye to these policies.

Why couldn’t we have had a leader who made good on his promises just as Donald Trump did?