Andrew Judd, a staunch advocate for Maori wards, struggles to argue his point with Michael Laws on the Platform.
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Friday, May 10, 2024
Michael Laws - Andrew Judd discuss Maori wards
Andrew Judd, a staunch advocate for Maori wards, struggles to argue his point with Michael Laws on the Platform.
3 comments:
Unbelievable, what a plonker. New Plymouth are well rid of him.
His argument holds no water at all but he refuses to accept it.
Using his daft logic, we should have seperate voting systems for each race. How’s that going to work?
People like Mr Judd astound me. If they had their way and we had 50/50 representation between Maori and everyone else, how do they think that would ultimately play out and who would get the deciding vote? And it would very quickly come to that when that representation in realty is at best weighted on a ratio of 20/80 of the wider population. Which is why Wards are supposed to be of roughly similar size in potential voter numbers but, as is the case now, some Maori votes are in effect, representation-wise, worth well more than the ideal of ‘one person one vote’ and would be grossly so if his 50/50 proposal proceeded.
And, in the alternative, with his token one or two Maori Wards, then that assumes all Maori think alike? History has proven the lie to that. And, in any event what is it about Maori that distinguishes and makes their needs different from everyone else’s? And when you take on a governance role aren’t you supposed to be representing ALL the people, or is a self-centric race-based only interest acceptable?
We either seek to have a democracy or, if Mr Judd gets his way, an ethnocracy, where we attempt to go forward divided by race. For someone who has held a purportedly “high office”, he shows a remarkable naivety of how democracy works, and a very poor understanding of Te Tiriti, which he clearly relies on as the foundation of his beliefs.
Whatever possessed New Plymouth voters to elect him once as Mayor?
maori used to go around killing and eating each other and exercised other unpleasant behaviours towards each other. The behaviours -they clearly thought alike, the exercise of those behaviours I doubt very much. So what is the special maori interest?
And when will all these fake names and fake language that apparently identifies
maori stop.
maori wards - to decide who eats whom?
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