The rush is on because of the Government's new Natural Environment and Planning bills.
They were released late last year, saying you can't do local Māori deals under it. It's passed its first reading and is sitting at committee level and due back soon.
Like rust, councils don’t sleep, so the deals are being inked. Canterbury is the latest, but deals have already been done in Manawatu, Whanganui, Northland, and Taranaki.
Obviously, we could focus on the duplicitous nature of all this. We could focus on the fundamental dishonesty of giving people a say over major matters without having to ever face a voter.
But let us, for this moment in time, wonder aloud whether this very sort of thing might be a reason for the softness in the National Party vote at the moment.
We are late in the term and, yes, there was a lot to do to try and stitch up the chaos Labour left behind.
But the Māorification of this country was a centrepiece for all the players in the current Government, and yet you can argue, and I do, that it never got the attention it needed.
It never seemed to have the urgency.
It started with the smaller, you could argue, simpler stuff i.e. Māori names for everything. There should have been stroke-of-pen edicts that ended the nonsense on the spot.
We had the vote at local level around Māori wards. That was democracy in action as some kept them, some didn’t. But at least we had a say.
But stitch-up deals with local tribes who decide what gets done and doesn’t, simply because of race, is a gargantuan example of what needed addressing on day one.
Here we are on day 962 and we still haven't closed it off and, given it's July and Parliament rises in September, there are only a handful of sitting days left. ChatGPT tells me there's only ten.
I assume they plan to pass it in that time, but in the ensuing period the piss is well and truly being taken.
Delivery is everything in government.
On this, even if they deliver, they have looked lackadaisical in their approach, hence the bleeding of support.
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
Obviously, we could focus on the duplicitous nature of all this. We could focus on the fundamental dishonesty of giving people a say over major matters without having to ever face a voter.
But let us, for this moment in time, wonder aloud whether this very sort of thing might be a reason for the softness in the National Party vote at the moment.
We are late in the term and, yes, there was a lot to do to try and stitch up the chaos Labour left behind.
But the Māorification of this country was a centrepiece for all the players in the current Government, and yet you can argue, and I do, that it never got the attention it needed.
It never seemed to have the urgency.
It started with the smaller, you could argue, simpler stuff i.e. Māori names for everything. There should have been stroke-of-pen edicts that ended the nonsense on the spot.
We had the vote at local level around Māori wards. That was democracy in action as some kept them, some didn’t. But at least we had a say.
But stitch-up deals with local tribes who decide what gets done and doesn’t, simply because of race, is a gargantuan example of what needed addressing on day one.
Here we are on day 962 and we still haven't closed it off and, given it's July and Parliament rises in September, there are only a handful of sitting days left. ChatGPT tells me there's only ten.
I assume they plan to pass it in that time, but in the ensuing period the piss is well and truly being taken.
Delivery is everything in government.
On this, even if they deliver, they have looked lackadaisical in their approach, hence the bleeding of support.
Mike Hosking is a New Zealand television and radio broadcaster. He currently hosts The Mike Hosking Breakfast show on NewstalkZB on weekday mornings - where this article was sourced.
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Why didn't National put a moratorium on any new deals? Because they knew the councils would do exactly what the councils are doing. The Nats are just waving this sort of thing through and expecting us not to notice. They are talking Right and governing Left.
Finally. Hallelujah!
This is THE reason National are, if not flat lining, then going backwards. And if nothing else this term, has been the revelation of how much of the foundation of this problem wlies squarely at the feet of the Key government.
Yes the economy is not great but people see they are trying. With Maorification and the constitutional hijacking it is, they see a complicit weak Prime Minister and a political party who has to dragged k8ck8ng and whimpering, to change anything.
I had hoped you'd cover this off with Luxon at some point in the past two years, but the subject was clearly taboo. That being said, and knowing the weak PM he is, (has he left the country and vanished?), I'm fairly sure he'd not show up if he was forced to answer to this constitutional corruption.
The Nats have made their bed, they are on the verge of being one termers, or in the very least, Luxon's job is on very borrowed time and many if his senior list MP's will be exiting the job with him. That is looking increasingly certain.
No question this is a big problem for them. I live in Luxons electorate, he definitely wont get my vote this time.
The strategy of being labour light is clearly not working for them.
Currently they dont seem to appeal to the left or the right. Is it Luxons ideas? or is it deeper than that????
Oh, finally a light has gone on.
Do you really think this could be an issue, Mike? Or is it just the economy, stupid? Just as well our PM is so good at reading the room, eh?
i suspect public concern abour maorfication is hugely understimated.And it would be vastly greater if maori anticswere fully publicised. Most surveys of public concern do not offer the topic. Certainty of cancellation prevents near all sceptics openly expressing their foreboding.. Sadly no party, and now including Act, seems free of high risk of internal 5th column subversion.
This is the most relevant commentary I've heard from you.
Keep up the momentum on your platform.
Get into Luxon, make him tell us what he's doing.
I told my National MP several times that unless they and Luxon deal with the racist issues of Maorification and co-governance there would not be an economy worth saving. They have clearly ignored that warning and I bet I'm not the only person that issued it. To put a slight twist on an old saying, are we the unwilling led by the unqualified who are deaf, dumb and blind to the real issue?
Maori didn't build nz, the scots and the english did. I am sick to death of having to recite a maori prayer in the office or being told that everything in the west is bad, that people who commit crime should be let off because their people were colonised. It is all a SCAM. They will get a rude awakening when all the Indians move here in mass migration. The indians won't be apologising to Maori as they know a grifting scam when they see it. Their country is full of corruption. The ones who come to the west generally want a western lifestyle with western laws. . It was the scots who founded otago and now the iwi want that too. There is now a maori name for Otago university. Why? They had nothing to do with it. They barely had the written word. There so many examples. National was meant to stop it.
“Is this why the National vote is soft?”
Yes. Yes, it is.
Newstalk ZB, under its parent, NZME, has been constrained by the terms of the PIJF money it took as a bribe from Labour and Ardern. Also the huge amounts they received during Covid to broadcast Covid messages in te reo.
A bribe not to reveal any of the inroads Maori were making in destroying our democracy.
Why now Mike are you weakly raising your head and talking about the bleeding obvious ?
Are you ever going to raise it during your cosy Monday morning chats with Luxon ?
ZB, NZME, and it's mates are a huge part of the change from a democracy to an ethnocracy.
Shame on you all.
National will likely lose election for two reasons. First it cheated its own supporters promising to address Treaty issues but did not. Second it promised to reduce cost of living but instead increased it due to not confronting monopoly power
running riot. Thats why nearly three quarters of NZers dont trust Nats.
Mike I hope you quizz Luxon on this subject tomorrow. We deserve to know what he considers his objectives around co governance, the treaty, equality, maori seats, - all of which they campaigned on last time and have done little to nothing
Quizz Luxon! Don't be silly. He has already shown over the course of his Government that he has no answers. So here's a tip.
All he needs to do is recognise his continued endorsement of New Zealand's corrupted maorification - co governance et al - is the cancer that will decimate this Nation. A very straightforward statement, easily presented. And best done sooner rather than later!
Steve Ellis
We in NZ do ourselves no credit . NZ is small in every facet of life.and a micro unit on the world stage .
If NZ was your business and the PM was the CEO, he would be gone because the shareholders (us) cannot understand his policy , beliefs and the direction NZ Inc is travelling.
Clearly the two Coalition partners to National only need to increase their combined vote marginally and National with reduced party vote will be the smaller party , not the PM , Minister of Finance or Minister of Infrastructure etc.
Imagine if a principled stand of eliminating every Budgetary allowance that excluded the majority, in favour of Maori was election policy .
The political polls would not be recognisable.
Its hard to see where the votes are going as they leave National.
I think there is a real risk that the ACT and NZF are under reported in their support because a significant number of people feel anger towards ACT and NZF purely based on ideologic lunacy so people don't admit it.
Just as many in the US would not admit support for DJT and then he won.
My hope is the woke Nats get 25% and the ACT NZF get 30%.
That would stimulate a real change and that would shift the economy away from the wealthy middleclass lay around beltways to the working folk based real economic performance.
The Anglo-kiwi part of this nation is under fierce attack, as many of us now appreciate. The attack is no external action: it is from the people we entrusted to govern this country. That issue is not yet fully understood by the majority. When they do the major political parties will begin to melt away, like snowflakes in hell. If any part of our civilisation remains we will need an entirely new system to re-establish a valid govt.
What the heck is Anglo-kiwi? I’m a kiwi, mate, through and through. We have no place for this Anglo division that Anon is seeing. Real kiwis see through this.
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