Let’s not sugarcoat it. New Zealand’s current political landscape is an absolute embarrassment - a parade of incompetence, identity posturing, and ideological extremism. Our so-called “leaders” have turned Parliament into a circus, with the nation caught in the crossfire of their vanity projects and delusions of grandeur. So here’s my opinion - a brutally honest ranking of the four worst offenders currently occupying seats in Parliament, from catastrophic to merely disappointing.
1. The Green Party
Once the champions of environmentalism and cannabis reform, the Greens have mutated into a chaotic clique of fringe ideologues. They’re obsessively focused on overseas conflicts, identity politics, transexuals and defending indefensible behavior. Economic policy? Virtually non-existent. Governance experience? Laughable. Instead of planting trees or fixing rivers, they’re busy virtue-signalling about Gaza and waving rainbow flags in Parliament.
Co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick, increasingly resembles someone auditioning for a student union presidency rather than national office. The party has become a refuge for professional victims - people who speak fluently in hashtags but haven’t the faintest idea how the real world functions. New Zealanders should be deeply concerned that this group continues to gain influence.
2. The Labour Party
Labour is a ghost of its former self. Chris Hipkins has inherited the suit but none of the leadership. Every speech sounds like it’s been plagiarised from a Green Party blog. You’d think the Prime Minister of a first-world country could offer a coherent stance on something as basic as the definition of a woman - instead, we get waffle, cowardice, and deference to the loudest activist in the room.
Labour has thrown its lot in with digital surveillance, bureaucratic overreach, and increasingly authoritarian tendencies, cloaked in the language of “progress.” The party no longer serves working-class Kiwis - it’s become a top-down, Wellington-centric elite machine, utterly disconnected from its roots.
3. The Māori Party
The Māori Party delivers a hyper-racialized, racist, reactionary platform built on division and drama. Hakas in Parliament? TikTok-worthy tantrums? These aren’t policies - they’re publicity stunts. The party reckons they speak for all Māori, but in reality, they represent a narrow ideological faction more interested in agitation than solutions.
One of their MPs is barely out of nappies, and it shows. No experience, no real-world credibility, just talking points and theatrics. The party’s vision of governance appears to be: shout louder, play the victim harder, make up bullshit quotes and never let facts get in the way of a good cultural grievance.
4. National Party
And finally, the least awful… which isn’t saying much. National under Christopher Luxon could have been a serious, competent alternative. Instead, it’s become a beige, bureaucratic mess more interested in appeasing global institutions than listening to its own citizens.
Luxon talks tough, but folds on everything that matters. Refusing to support the Treaty Principles Bill past the first reading was a betrayal of his base. And let’s not forget the flirtation with banning social media for under-16s - a pretext for expanding government surveillance and pushing digital IDs.
Matua Kahurangi is just a bloke sharing thoughts on New Zealand and the world beyond. No fluff, just honest takes. He blogs on https://matuakahurangi.com/ where this article was sourced.
Once the champions of environmentalism and cannabis reform, the Greens have mutated into a chaotic clique of fringe ideologues. They’re obsessively focused on overseas conflicts, identity politics, transexuals and defending indefensible behavior. Economic policy? Virtually non-existent. Governance experience? Laughable. Instead of planting trees or fixing rivers, they’re busy virtue-signalling about Gaza and waving rainbow flags in Parliament.
Co-leader Chlöe Swarbrick, increasingly resembles someone auditioning for a student union presidency rather than national office. The party has become a refuge for professional victims - people who speak fluently in hashtags but haven’t the faintest idea how the real world functions. New Zealanders should be deeply concerned that this group continues to gain influence.
2. The Labour Party
Labour is a ghost of its former self. Chris Hipkins has inherited the suit but none of the leadership. Every speech sounds like it’s been plagiarised from a Green Party blog. You’d think the Prime Minister of a first-world country could offer a coherent stance on something as basic as the definition of a woman - instead, we get waffle, cowardice, and deference to the loudest activist in the room.
Labour has thrown its lot in with digital surveillance, bureaucratic overreach, and increasingly authoritarian tendencies, cloaked in the language of “progress.” The party no longer serves working-class Kiwis - it’s become a top-down, Wellington-centric elite machine, utterly disconnected from its roots.
3. The Māori Party
The Māori Party delivers a hyper-racialized, racist, reactionary platform built on division and drama. Hakas in Parliament? TikTok-worthy tantrums? These aren’t policies - they’re publicity stunts. The party reckons they speak for all Māori, but in reality, they represent a narrow ideological faction more interested in agitation than solutions.
One of their MPs is barely out of nappies, and it shows. No experience, no real-world credibility, just talking points and theatrics. The party’s vision of governance appears to be: shout louder, play the victim harder, make up bullshit quotes and never let facts get in the way of a good cultural grievance.
4. National Party
And finally, the least awful… which isn’t saying much. National under Christopher Luxon could have been a serious, competent alternative. Instead, it’s become a beige, bureaucratic mess more interested in appeasing global institutions than listening to its own citizens.
Luxon talks tough, but folds on everything that matters. Refusing to support the Treaty Principles Bill past the first reading was a betrayal of his base. And let’s not forget the flirtation with banning social media for under-16s - a pretext for expanding government surveillance and pushing digital IDs.
Matua Kahurangi is just a bloke sharing thoughts on New Zealand and the world beyond. No fluff, just honest takes. He blogs on https://matuakahurangi.com/ where this article was sourced.
9 comments:
The Labour Party stropped being a 'labourers' party' way back in the 1970s. The the end of that decade, it had changed its collar colour from blue to white. This was true across the anglophone world. Its new political ideology was rather vague and it remains so. They remain left-of-centre although it can be hard to say why.
The problem is the people who vote for the parties are the least consideration of those parties when it comes to policy making. Various polls show people want this, that and the other. Our politicians ignore this because it doesn't align with their beliefs. Therefore, we have an elitist class who throw the odd crumb to the masses, as long as their own core beliefs aren't impinged upon. It might be $20 more in your pocket or getting rid of one burdensome regulation. Nowhere was this more evident than during the covid years. That's when New Zealand became a uni-party.
We can no longer rely on them to fulfil their pre-election promises. People are so downtrodden, ignorant( because of the MSM) and apathetic.
Reason.... Labour became the plaything of the educated Marxists... Helen Clark for starters... A sorry article, but the writer is exactly right.
The National party and NZF not supporting the treaty principles bill through parliament, I consider, as I'm sure many will, the greatest betrayal of New Zealanders I have witnessed in my lifetime.
So what does this tell about us - the people who elected these clowns and brought them to power? Are we a nation of naive, complacent and easily manipulated people?
Yes - but will National /Luxon pay for this?
Mmp was supposed to prevent 2 parties monopolizing parliament and allowing diverse views. The downside is that it is not possible to take drastic action and stay in power long enough to see the results.
The whole ‘bread and circuses’ of political parties, rotten to the core and absolutely contemptuous of their own voters is now well and truly past its use-by date. What to replace it with? There must be some smart guys out there who can define a representative aspect, but filtered for honesty, competence and integrity. Of course also with finite terms of office. Something like, oh I don’t know…maybe a modified Athenian Option? Can’t be all that hard.
PRIME MINISTER LUXON SAYS THERE IS NOTHING HE LIKES ABOUT THE TREATY PRINCIPLES BILL.
NOTHING.
He has stated this loud and clear.
So what are the things that he is opposed to?
Here they are.
Our Prime Minister dislikes the following:-
• That the New Zealand Government has the right to govern all New Zealanders.
• The government having full power to govern and make laws to maintain a free and democratic society.
• the New Zealand Government will honour all New Zealanders in the chieftainship of their land and all their property
• That all New Zealanders are equal under the law with the same rights and duties.
That’s Right !! Our Prime Minster opposed to a free and equal society !
He has STATED IT publicly !!
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