Bountiful Polls Predicting that NZ First will be the King
Maker.
Maybe not in so many words, but the latent message is clear.
TWELVE MONTHS AGO on Breaking Views, I penned the
following (1):
If I was still his advisor, I would be pressing him to go with whichever side offered him the first eighteen months of the next government, as Prime Minister.
Why? Time comes when one must look after one’s
self and family -
1 Prime Minister is the only Office
Winston has not attained during his tenure as an MP.
2 Eighteen months would qualify Winston
for the Prime Minister’s pension and perks hereafter.
Disclosure: I went to school
with Winston. During my time in
parliament (1987 – 1996), we were mates and post parliament I served 3 years
(1999 – 2003) as his primary industries adviser. The fishing industry component of that role
culminating in the Scamp Affair, saw Winston and me – part company. We are no longer mates. I will vote ACT on the appeal of Brooke van
Velden as a rising star – and because I am a capitalist.
TODAY
Probability is that National will recover all its lost Electorate
seats and more - as the 400,000 National voters who walked away from a pitiful
National before the last election (me included), return.
The voters return, not because National today is attracting
votes. Nope. As usual, Opposition don't win
elections. Governments lose elections. At Electorate level, National will be the
beneficiaries.
However, with National swooping the Electorates, their List
numbers will be very low - that's how MMP delivers democracy.
Therefore, National must have a running mate and that in my
view MUST be ACT.
NZ FIRST? Well, we've
all seen the reliability of NZ FIRST to deliver what they say.
Shane Jones PGF gift to Maori just prior to the last
election, in my view, a classic example of what is meant by NZ FIRST
billboard: "TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY”.
Contrast that billboard with the unequivocal ACT billboard: “END
DIVISION BY RACE”.
There is also the problem of Mandarins rule (2): MPs come and go. Bureaucrats lurk, loiter and linger to strike
when the gap re-opens.
Based on what’s happening in our schools, where Maori
culture is being forced onto students from 5-year-olds and above, to what’s
happening to co governance Labour Party initiatives across the bureaucracies
which run our once great country, changing the direction New Zealand is
headed, will take more than changing MP’s – even if we find some who will
repeal the Labour Government’s legacy.
Bureaucrats rule NZ.
Their power, is their control via briefings they deliver new and
existing MPs, and is well entrenched in governance. In my assessment, most government
bureaucracies embrace the “woke” culture, which Labour haemorrhages.
REPEAL
Back to the basics: No parliament can bind its successor.
As I recall, the Bill of Rights requires a 75% majority to
amend the content - something along those lines.
Fact is: That BILL can be removed with 51% vote (being one
good enduring component of Democracy). (3)
So, what we need is a government with the fortitude to
repeal Labour's racially divisive initiatives.
The big question is: Do we have the calibre of MPs
centre-right, who will stand up to this hidden power possessed by mandarins?
In my view, Mr Luxon’s National team, is also “woke” – and
unfortunately, I don’t see many “non-woke” in the wider National cabal, which
suggest to me that gains made by radical Maori, will pretty much remain
entrenched.
However, ACT appear to make it clear that their goal is to
repeal the racially divisive policies by Labour, such as elevating ethnicity
above medical priority, for health care???
TO GOVERN ALONE
Well! ACT will get my
vote and I hope that gives the centre-right aka ACT & National, the numbers
to govern alone.
In which case, Winston may not achieve his missing pendant:
Not only Prime Minister and pension perks, but first Maori Prime Minister.
Paradoxically, this saddens me. On the one hand, I don’t trust NZ FIRST to
repeal Labour’s racist regime. It was NZ FIRST which gave us the nightmare of
Ardern’s term in office.
On the other hand, during the many years he has tended
the mill, Winston made a big contribution. Maybe more of a hand brake than and
accelerator, but slowing down Mandarin’s is better than letting them run riot. And
personally, he is a likeable fellow - with whom I was once a close mate.
He deserves a chance at the top.
Ross Meurant. BA MPP Former police inspector. Former Member of Parliament. Former Hon Consul Morocco.(1) https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/08/ross-meurant-vicissitudes-of-politics.html
(2) https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2022/10/ross-meurant-fundamental-flaw.html
(3) https://breakingviewsnz.blogspot.com/2023/07/ross-meurant-busbys-blunder.html
7 comments:
TELL US WHAT YOU REALLY THINK, ROSS
I'm far more concerned about the state of the country than with Winston achieving his own financial and personal goal of becoming PM.
Anyway, with just over 5% of the vote, and at best, the smallest partner in a centre-right government, how is he supposed to be appointed PM?
The idea is ridiculous!
Not only on this Commentary Section, every time the Name Winston Peters was mentioned in an article on either Him and/or NZ First, along with his appearances on The Platform, with Sean Plunket, the derisive comments that appeared, that made it very "clear he was a lame duck, and no way were New Zealander's going to re-elect him". The basis for much of those comments, was "his aligning with Jacinda Ardern". But he had past history, every one forgets "he aligned with Helen Clarke".
Winston as our PM, yea, right. He would like that, he "could then strut the World stage, as the NZ version of Julius Caesar - ALL HAIL WINSTON'.
It is interesting, that I heard a comment, that Winston when in Parliament - "that it was all about Winston", and I am sure Mr Meurant, you would know that only to well.
A vote for Winston could well be a vote for the continuation of a Labour led government. History doesn’t lie but it does repeat. Any voter wanting a centre right government should steer well clear of NZ First. How many times do you need be let down before learning your history lesson?
Ross is pretty good at dredging up predictions of old that have come to pass, but they are not relevant.
The important thing is to look beyond what NZ First has been or is today. The question is what will it be in three years' time? It's in three years that it will be able to build on what it is able to achieve in October.
Probably NZ First would have moved past Winston and Shane Jones. Time will catch up with them and their contributions will be as relevant as a yesteryear high school honours board.
In three years there is likely to be a new leader (Casey Costello if they have any sense at all) and a new leadership team, with a new style and new vision. To build that foundation they need to be elected in October.
It doesn't matter who gets in, the NWO globalists agenda is still on the table, and Will be followed and enacted by our 'sell outs' until a united 'we the people' stop it.
William
Trying to be objective does not necessarily result in penning what I personally think.
I hope ACT gets such a List swing that National and ACT make it without NZFIRST
However I do recognise that Winston has been a remarkable politician.
Ross
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