National might be on to something here.
Chris Luxon, just in the last couple of hours, has called on the Prime Minster to sack Nanaia Mahuta for openly defying the Prime Minster.
So what’s happened is that a document has emerged that shows that Cabinet collectively agreed back on 30 May this year not to do the Three Waters entrenchment.
But then, as we know, Nanania and the Greens stitched up a little deal where they did it anyway. Just at 60 percent not 75 percent.
And as we know, this caught a lot of senior Labour Cabinet Ministers by surprise. The Prime Minister didn’t know the entrenchment had passed until afterwards.
Neither did Chris Hipkins who is the Leader of the House, and neither did David Parker who is the Attorney General and who advised against it.
So it’s starting to look like there is a chance. Nanaia Mahuta just went ahead and did what she wanted anyway in defiance of Cabinet.
Now that would be, the Nats argue, in breach of the Cabinet Manual by acting against the instructions of Cabinet.
And it’s frankly embarrassing for the PM to be ignored.
Now if the Nats are right, if Nanaia has defied the PM like it looks increasingly that she might’ve, she should be sacked.
And it’s not only this, but it’s also the fact that she’s stuffed this legislation up so badly that councils up and down this country hate it.
And also there’s the lingering perception that something isn’t quite right about her husband attracting all those Government contracts. There is more than enough against Nanaia Mahuta to sack her.
But she will not be sacked.
She is one of the leaders of the Maori Caucus and they are powerful. I doubt very much that they’ll let the PM sack her.
Nanaia is untouchable. You can see that from the way the PM has gone out of her way to defend Nanaia in this and say it was a team mistake.
So even though Nanaia is causing all kinds of problems for Jacinda, and even though the Nats are right in that she’s probably done enough to be sacked, I bet you now she’s going nowhere.
Heather du Plessis-Allan is a journalist and commentator who hosts Newstalk ZB's Drive show.
13 comments:
Absolute proof that Ardern has lost any influence she may have ever had over the maori caucus. She should pack her bags and just go. She makes a bigger fool of herself every time she speaks now. To allow ministers to blatantly defy a cabinet decision is to surrender to a mutiny. Time for an early election because no matter what spin the labour cult try on, they were never given a mandate to allow the country to be run by a bunch of corrupt maori politicians.
How can she be sacked?
She is actually the Prime Minister.
Ardern is just the poster girl with the brand imagery.
This should come as no surprise to anyone. The new NZ is upon us, tribal rule will be here for decades. Precedent has been set, Maori elite won’t stop until they run everything, own everything, and can clip the ticket on everything.
No-one will be firing Nanaia – she now runs the show, it is more likely she will fire anyone who disagrees with what she does. No-one can fire Maori without the consent of Maori. This is the tribal way.
Nepotism should come as no surprise to anyone – it is now required under our new Maori-first regime. If Nanaia is to be criticized it is because she has sent too few public contracts the way of her family. Nepotism is part of the tribal way.
When NZers awake from their slumber they will realise the implications of the new order. It’s too late, you have already had your opportunity to do something about this, but most did nothing. National have not been vocal enough to expect them to make meaningful reversals.
Best chance of getting rid of Labour at the next election is to keep all the rogue Maori Ministers in their positions.
They seem to be getting desperate to preserve their flawed and divisive "legacy" and will now go to any lengths to achieve this.
That's good news for the centre-right.
Give them enough rope and they'll happily hang themselves!
Heather, Ardern is Mahuta's whipping girl. The entire Labour parliamentary mob are the collective mouthpieces of the tribal elite and the Labour Maori caucus, the pale social rejects who make up the rest sit in a corner wringing their hands or practicing a haka. With the brainwashed young so called news reporters following Ardern sniffing lines of fairy dust the general public remain in ignorance of the policies destroying our democracy. It is shameful that the elected MPs who should be protecting our way of life are betraying us to a racist minority of radicals. Kiwialan.
Well the maori caucus in labour lead by mahuta does seem to be running the country and making all the decisions, enabled by ardern who in return does all the fun stuff like visiting europe, antarctica and photoshoots in vogue etc. That's prob why she won't fire her
Completely agree with Terry on this.
We know have a lame duck PM openly defied by her ministers. The tail wagging the dog.
Just think what another year of this will bring to NZ and Labour.
If Ardern has any honor at all she will resign or call an early election.
I can then win my bet with all my mates and save $50 bucks.
There’s a lot riding on this.
Welcome to Aparthide Aotearoa, the ethnostate where your ethnic background gives you rights above all others including the law. What does the the rest of the world think of our apartheid separatist society, with its seperate health system, seperate laws,seperate economy, seperate voting system, the list goes on. No wonder no one wants to come here to live and work, while the ones that are here are jumping ship with a lots more thinking about it. I suppose that what the separatists want !!
I suggest that a good starting point to the return of social cohesion in this country would be to get rid of the present corrupt labour cult with its obvious agenda of divide and rule. The next step should be to recognise the Royal Charter/Letters Patent as the founding document of New Zealand and NOT the ToW. The maori electorate seats should then be abolished along with the Waitangi Tribunal and the Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975.
From there the dismantling of multiple commissions and ministries (e.g. Race Relations Commission, Climate Commission) which serve no useful purpose apart from providing bloated salaries to equally bloated bureaucrats and their staff and being the source of discontent and a waste of taxpayers’ money.
Then a repeal of ALL racist and woke legislation . Scrap the Paris Agreement, withdraw from the UN, WHO and stop throwing taxpayers’ money at equally useless organisations.
Elect a government who will govern for the people and not the corrupt and noisiest woke organisations. MPs to be elected and not names drawn out of a hat.
Introduce Binding Citizens Initiated Referenda, a recall system to get rid of corrupt, dishonest, or incompetent politicians both local and central.
It's actually disgraceful that Mahuta can do what she's done and not be sacked. The nepotism with her husband/cousin and then the nephew and his wife is bad enough, but her sister to be appointed in a very significant role in the Three Waters reform that she's engineering is surely also a breach of the cabinet rules, no matter Kelvin Davis's shameful very temporary involvement. And now we have this latest. She patently thinks she's untouchable. Maybe she is, but the general public will now have a very clear idea of how corrupt the whole co-governance nonsense is. And if she succeeds in her endeavours, what does she think will happen? That the general majority, when the wake up to the rort that's been done upon them, will sit back quietly and take it on the chin? Not only has the power and greed got the better of her, but she's also myopic - and the latter goes for the rest of those supporting this nonsense, whose futures look similarly bleak.
great comments terry Morrissey the hardest part is finding a political party that would implement your ideas and then put up with the racist crap from the greedy disappointed maori
I'm beyond disappointed.
What has happened to the enquiry into Mahutas and her family shenanigans?
This will make it very difficult for her to move about in public.
I'm very disappointed by what our country has become. The trust and respect has gone. The Maori in my family are ashamed by Mahutas behaviour.
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