It played out like this:
Oriini Kaipara, who's their new MP replacing the late Takutai Tarsh Kemp, delivered her maiden speech because today’s her first day in Parliament. Afterwards, there was a song and the public gallery was involved. She stepped out of her seat into the aisle, onto the floor to receive the song.
As soon as the song ended, someone - sounded like it was somebody up in the public gallery - started a haka and she started to haka back.
From news reports I’ve read, one of the other MPs, Hana-Rāwhiti Maipi-Clarke, also started to haka.
Speaker Gerry Brownlee said, “Oh no, not that.”
He went on to say that was not the agreement that had been struck, but they didn’t stop, they basically ignored him.
He got to his feet, at which point the House is usually supposed to stop everything it’s doing and go quiet to allow him to speak, and they just completely ignored him.
He threw his hands in the air, he then suspended the House, walked off, and the camera feed cut.
He’s come back subsequently very unhappy about it, and I’m going to bring you up to speed on all of that.
Now, the thing is, though - before you get angry about it - don’t bother wasting energy on being angry at the Māori Party for doing this, because that’s akin to wasting energy on getting angry at an alcoholic for getting drunk if you put beer in front of them, or getting angry at a toddler for packing a tantrum if they’re tired.
This is what the Māori Party does, right? This is the stuff that they thrive on. They thrive on performance, they thrive on sticking the middle finger to authority, it’s basically what they would call their kaupapa.
I’m just surprised that Gerry Brownlee got hoodwinked so easily into making an agreement with them and thinking this wouldn’t happen. Or maybe he didn’t, or maybe someone in Parliament didn’t get hoodwinked, because it looks like someone was prepared for this.
As soon as that haka started, the camera never cut back to the Māori Party or the gallery. It stayed on Gerry, and as soon as he suspended Parliament, the feed cut.
Now, what that means is you never really see the Māori Party doing the haka or anyone doing the haka. You can just kind of hear it in the background, but you can’t see it.
That basically robs the Māori Party of the ability to do what they did previously - strip the crisp, professional parliamentary TV feed, put it on their social media, and hope the thing goes viral.
It’s not going to happen this time because that footage is not there for them.
Now, it is not ideal, obviously, having Parliament’s rules broken like this for obvious reasons, but it is not unexpected.
So I think, given all things, the best outcome may be the one that was achieved today - which is just a blackout.
Heather du Plessis-Allan is a journalist and commentator who hosts Newstalk ZB's Drive show HERE - where this article was sourced.
11 comments:
This little bunny will not be happy until there is a complete blackout on the Moron Party
Imagine the fun we will experience when these guys run nz next year! I note there was virtually nothing in the msm about this
Heather, we do have a right to be angry about this, as we are paying their wages.
These people are acting like savages - it's time they grew up and started behaving like civilized people. I'm sorry if this sounds like I am racist but, I am not - for example I've have a Samoan partner over 40 years.
My Reuters Daily Briefing this morning included the following:
"New Zealand's parliament was suspended for a short period when people in the public gallery broke into a haka, a traditional Maori dance, after the newest member of parliament for the Maori party finished her maiden speech."
It's not often that you see NZ in the daily headlines. What sort of impression does this kind of news item convey about us to the world?
Time magazine and the guardian simply love the savages stamping, the slapping, the yelling, the bulging eyes and the tonguing, the mokos.
The weak, craven response our govt are taking to this barbarous behaviour from our entitled savages will have a very serious impact on their numbers next year. We don’t have much time to clean out the Marxists and their fellow travellers, the Te Partly Maori gang. Civilisation always hangs by a thread.
Gerry Brownlee is as woke, wet and weak as Christopher Luxon his Leader.
National is looking to lose next year and it is all down to Luxon & his crew.
People voted National to remove the Maorification of NZ and make us all equal in practice.
MikeNZ
A couple of points.
TV1 and TV3 covered the issue but with a crucial difference in TV1’s coverage. TV1 did not mention the haka performance. Presenter Maiki Sherman is TV1’s main Maori Party supporter.
I saw a shot of Rawiri Waititi in Parliament. On the back of his jacket were displayed words to the effect that Maori did not concede sovereignty. To which point I can only say it is Maori demanding that New Zealand itself is to concede sovereignty. To who? John Tamihere?
I now regard the M party as the Clockwork Clowns (new name). Bad clowns by the way. The Maori word for clown – Kaiwhakakata.
We need much more of this behaviour from the M party. Not only in Parliament. The M party is actually an asset to the Nat/Act/NZFirst coalition. How so? The M party’s ongoing campaign can only convince the electorate that a vote for Labour/Green/Maori is a vote for more dysfunctionality – or is that anarchy?
In engineering the maori takeover of NZ by utilising a stone age language as Trojan horse, insurrectionist maori have applied a degree of artfulness with few or no equals in history. But at the basic level behaviour is still strictly in the stone age. Possibly deliberate to decoy attention. With the maori wards vote pending would expect maori to be on best behaviour. Sadly, despite the clear indicators, most of the public are too removed from reality and too PC brainwashed to recognise the risk of endless disruption and mana seeking contrariness.
In 2026, ask every candidate standing for office to commit to a referendum which confirms NZ's democracy to secure your vote. If they refuse to do so , they must state their reasons. MPs have to realize the people are totally serious about this. This can be led by NZ's leading centre right political commentators.
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