Green MP Ricardo Menéndez March says Prime Minister Christopher Luxon needs to step in after NZ First leader Winston Peters made allegedly “xenophobic” comments about him.
Act leader David Seymour has come to the Green MP’s defence, saying “we’ve got to stop obsessing over when people arrive” in New Zealand.
But Luxon has this afternoon refused to comment, ignoring questions on the matter from the Herald.
It came after Menéndez March used “Aotearoa” in a question in Parliament, which led to Peters interjecting.
Peters said: “Why is someone who applied to come to a country called New Zealand as an immigrant in 2006 allowed in this House to change the country’s name without the mandate, the approval or the referendum of the New Zealand people?”
So we have a somewhat hysterical story with demands the PM intervene over the fact Peters referred to Menendez March as being an immigrant.
Now let’s look at what they have not covered.
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So here you have a party leader celebrating the violent death of someone. It is one thing to have a negative opinion of Captain Cook, but to actually celebrate his murder as an act of love is very different. Where are the media stories about how TPM is (again) glorifying violence.
And here we have the Green co-leader as part of a rally billed as “bashing back” which is a clear reference to the violence meted out at the Posie Parker rally last year.
So again where are the media stories about a party leader implicitly endorsing violence. Where are the op eds worrying about this trend of radicalisation on the left.
Instead they cover that Winston did an insensitive point of order.
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders.
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