Matua Kahurangi: Infinite Indians - An open deal with no plan

While the rest of us were just trying to get on with life and our mainstream media were busy hurling homophobic slurs, our spineless politicians quietly sold the farm. They have locked New Zealand into a so-called trade deal that will reshape this country for decades. Almost no one in the press had the balls to ask the bleeding obvious questions.

Thank God for Winston Peters, who is actually doing his job.

He is out there on Facebook demanding why neither National nor Labour is being grilled on what the Indian government itself is openly bragging about. Because India’s Minister of Commerce and Industry has already laid it out in plain English: a fast-growing Indian population here, hundreds of thousands already, hundreds of thousands more on the way. More students flooding in because, apparently, we have a shortage of people.

Add in visa rules that let them work, stay on, and bring the whole family, all on top of a weak job market, and tell me, hand on heart: who the hell is this actually working for?

We don’t need more curry chefs and Uber drivers. We need engineers. We need surgeons. We need people who build this country up, not add more pressure to an already creaking system.

Young Kiwis are scraping by in a brutal job market. Wages are stagnant. Housing is a national disgrace. Infrastructure is groaning. Yet the geniuses in Wellington insist the solution is to import even more labour. It is completely deranged.

And then there is the part they really hope you won’t notice.

India is touting a 20 billion dollar investment commitment. Not from them to us. From us to them. Over 15 years. And their own Press Information Bureau confirms there is a rebalancing clause. Miss the target and the deal turns on us like a loaded gun. Clawbacks. Penalties. The works.

We signed up for a massive, long-term financial obligations with automatic punishment if we fall short, all while being gaslit that this is some glorious win.

National happily waved it through with zero scrutiny, the usual corporate buzzwords about growth and opportunity. Trade deals should serve the people who actually live here. They should lift wages, build real industries, and protect our long-term stability.

This one does the opposite. It is a liability dressed up as diplomacy. A one-way valve sucking in pressure on jobs, housing, and infrastructure while we write big cheques to India with penalties attached if we don’t pay up fast enough.

New Zealanders are not idiots. We can smell a stinking deal from a mile away.

And this one reeks of a sh*tty butter chicken that has been sitting on the bench for a week.

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.